What To Do Till The Cume Comes Back Recently, I got to thinking about how drastically different the landscape of the Urban radio and music industries have become. We have very few standalone Urban FM stations. Most Urban AC stations today have evolved from what was once a ...

Radio's New Rules Of Engagement May Not Lead To Marriage Recently, the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), after meeting with the Federal Communications Commission, offered a voluntary arrangement with Clear Channel, CBS Radio, Citadel and Entercom that ...

Identifying Lifestyles Is Key As we head into the vital spring ratings sweeps, I thought we should take a look at the makeup of today's Urban radio audience. Accurately identifying audience lifestyles can make a big difference for those stations who really want to bring ...

Our Economic Future As we wrap up our current series for Black History Month 2007, we want to take a brief look at the current state of the economy as well as the health of the music and radio industries. We begin with the current state of the economy and some surprising ...

African-America Is Still Divided -- In A Plethora Of Positive Ideas W.E.B. Dubois wrote in his "The Souls Of Black Folks" that the most difficult hurdle African Americans would face in the 20th and 21st centuries in America would be dealing with the duality of being ...

Revisiting Black History Most people know that February is the month that we celebrate Black history. They also know that it is a month that has enormous significance in Black American history. What they may not know is why the month of February was chosen. February was ...

Inherited Nightmares -- One By One From The Inside Out As we celebrate February -- Black History Month 2007 -- there are those who say that African-Americans should look to ourselves for solutions to our most pressing problems. What's wrong with that notion is that we ...

Recent Studies Show That In Hitting The Core We May Be Sacrificing Cume Although today's Urban radio audience has traditionally been a rather fixed commodity and always brought in a uniquely wide age demographic, that target audience is changing as the median age of the ...

The PD knew something was wrong Arbitron said, "Competition's too strong" The real reason ratings were low Was we just forgot how to flow And our competition's playing the same song Toward the end of last year, we looked at how Urban stations stacked up during mornings ...