Black Radio And History On The Rise In this, the third in our current series on a century of soul, we're going to look at black music and radio in the 60's and early 70's. Before we do that (and since we're celebrating Black History Month), a little history is in ...

Mourning And Celebration This week we continue with our month-long celebration of a century of soul and Black History month. It is a month that began with mourning and grief over the death of a civil rights icon and one we hope will end with the celebration of American ...

Nostalgic Pride Surfaces In The Achievements Of A Century A Century of Soul is the first of our four part series for February - Black History Month. It is a century where history is constantly being made and written about. We just witnessed the passing of Coretta Scott ...

Programming Strategies For Smoothing Out The Ride One thing we've notice right away as we say goodbye to the first month of the new year is the need to remove the bumps and smooth out the ride that radio takes us on. There is a change in thinking of today's generation of ...

Where we are and where we're going It's clear that most of us grew some last year. We learned some things. A few of us even got some accomplishments under our belts. There are still great challenges ahead, though. Our ultimate vision of this brave new world just around ...

Unless You Can Do Both As we roll into the new year, lots of urban programmers will ponder the problems of what to do to maintain their 18-24 listeners without sacrificing their core adult base. What can they give them that will keep those fickle fingers faithful this ...

Without Getting Played The holidays, for most of us, are all about observing traditions. Lasting memories are often born from the observance of these traditions, which is what makes the holidays such an important time of the year. In this first editorial of the new year, ...

A Brief Look Back At The Year Just Past As we wind down the year 2005, we turn up a brief look at the current state of our industries. What have we learned? Well, some of the lessons we already knew, we just reapplied them. For example, our research told us or we ...

Arbitron Are The People Who Design The Tests For the past several weeks, we have concentrated on ratings and Arbitron. We wrap this current series on ratings with an in-depth look at some of the other things Arbitron provides. In order to bring the picture into sharper ...