Creative Clocking Is Not Just Hit-After-Hit ... Time After Time One of the things every Urban station must do in preparation for the upcoming Spring Arbitron sweeps is fine-tune its music scheduling systems. There's no more locking in a hot clock and then letting it run ...

We're All Horny To Play The Hits Urban-formatted stations are at a crossroads as we prepare for the upcoming Spring Arbitron sweeps. This is largely due to the fact that ours is a mongrel format. Urban and Urban AC formats have very few format exclusive jams. Some ...

...But Is It Your Baby's Mama's Radio Station? Programming any Urban or Urban AC station targeted primarily to African-American listeners today is an ever more challenging proposition. In addition to the ongoing Arbitron sampling issues and the PPM, the last few months ...

Radio Needs To Allow Artists & Records To Develop It seems to be happening more and more with Urban and Urban AC radio -- tracks that weren't testing in callout research two weeks or a month ago finally kick in. Unfortunately, sometimes that happens after a label has ...

  African-America Is Still Divided In this, the fourth and final chapter in our current series for Black History Month 2008, we're going to examine a little more black history and its evolution. Also, we want to look positively on some progress that's been made in ...

  Our History Is A Dream, A Feeling And A Reality This is the third of our four part series for February - Black History Month 2008. This time we take a look at African America with the top down, where history is constantly being made and written about. From ...

  In this, the second of our current series on Black History Month, we decided to fill in some blanks and answer some questions you might have regarding the whole reason for Black History Month. Why does it exist and why was the month of February chosen? Some ...

  February is Back History Month, and Black History Month 2008 is dedicated to the recognition, perpetuation and preservation of its contributors, young and old, who have been at the forefront of the struggle -- men and women who do not believe that challenges ...

Are Generation Ys Smarter Than Generation Xers? If you're on the air, or have been ... if you're a PD or MD or have been ... this question is all-too-familiar territory for you. It's Thursday (while we're still operating with the Arbitron diary); you've got your air ...