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Steak Shapiro & Sandra Golden Reunite At 92.9 The Game

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 10:33 AM PDT https://radioinsight.com/headlines/233087/steak-shapiro-sandra-golden-reunite-at-92-9-the-game/



Audacy Sports 92.9 The Game WZGC Atlanta is reuniting Steak Shapiro and
Sandra Goldens The Front Row to air weekdays from 9am to 11am.

Shapiro and Golden previously co-hosted mornings on Dickey Broadcasting
Sports 680 The Fan WCNN from 2013 to 2020. Shapiro also previously ran Big League Broadcasting, which operated Sports 790 The Zone WQXI from 1996 to
2010. He also owns Atlanta Eats and co-hosts a local television show of the same name. Golden spent seven years at Fox Sports South from 1997 to 2004 before moving to radio at WQXI until 2011 and WCNN until 2021 as part of morning shows at both stations.

With the addition of The Front Row, John Fricke and Hugh Douglas morning
show will move up an hour to run from 5-9am. Andy Bunker and Randy
McMichaels midday show will lose an hour and run from 11am to 2pm.


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WKSS Adds Savannah To Kiss In The Morning

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 09:18 AM PDT https://radioinsight.com/headlines/233311/wkss-adds-savannah-to-kiss-in-the-morning/



iHeartMedia CHR Kiss 95.7 WKSS Hartford-Meriden CT is adding a third person
to their morning show as Savannah Giammarco joins the station on August 1.

Savannah will join longtime hosts Courtney and Walmart Jeff. She returns to
the company after launching her own social media management firm last year.
She previously worked at the company as a part-time promotions assistant
and integrated events specialist in 2019-20.

KISS 95-7, All The Hits: Hartford, announced today that Savannah will join “Courtney and KISS in the Morning,” effective August 1. “Courtney and KISS
in the Morning” broadcasts weekdays from 5 a.m. – 10 a.m.

“KISS in the Morning,” the popular heritage morning show, features longtime host Courtney, who has been on the KISS 95-7 airwaves for over 25 years, alongside Walmart Jeff, who has been on the air for 20 years. Savannah
will join the duo, and the show will continue to provide entertainment headlines and segments such as War of the Roses, as well as celebrity news
and gossip.

“Savannah is a fantastic addition to the already legendary team that is well-known in the market,” said Steve Honeycomb, Market President for iHeartMedia Connecticut. “She will work great alongside Courtney and
Walmart Jeff to continue to provide the best morning entertainment with a
fresh perspective”

“I am excited to announce the addition of Savannah to ‘Courtney and KISS In The Morning,’ said Joey Brooks, SVP of Programming for iHeartMedia Connecticut. “Courtney and Walmart Jeff have done an incredible job entertaining the listeners of Connecticut for years and I’m very excited
for the future. Not only is this group entertaining, but they are committed
to Connecticut and will do amazing things for the listeners and community.”

Savannah joins iHeartMedia Hartford’s KISS 95-7 after starting her own
social media management company, Savvy Social Media Management, LLC, in
2021. Prior to that, Savannah worked at iHeartMedia New Haven as an
integrated events specialist in 2020. She began her career at iHeartMedia Connecticut in 2019 as a part-time promotions assistant and is a graduate
of Quinnipiac University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in
Journalism with a focus on Broadcast and her Masters of Science in Public Relations.



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The Lost Factor vs. Streaming

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 08:00 AM PDT https://radioinsight.com/blogs/231745/the-lost-factor-vs-streaming/



Does radio still decide which classic hits are now “lost”?

After two years of determining the Lost Factor of hits from 1960 to 1999, I have sometimes wondered whether large-market broadcast-radio airplay will remain a fair representation of how much listeners still care about a hit
song. Broadcast radio’s status as the gatekeeper for new music is already long diminished. But is radio still the leader of the past if syncs and streaming can return a “Running Up That Hill” or “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)” to pop culture on a regular basis?

Last week, we updated our Lost Factor computations for Billboard’s Top 100 songs of 1983 and found those numbers to have changed glacially since we
first calculated them two years ago. Running those numbers was a precursor
to looking at Lost Factor if weekly on-demand streams, rather than airplay,
was the determinant. 

The Lost Factor formula was to divide year-end points as determined by placement on the year-end chart (100 points for No. 1, etc.) by BDSradio-monitored radio spins for the U.S. and Canada. Any song above a
1.0 could be said to be lost — measuring not just its lack of airplay now, but its trajectory to obscurity as well. 

With none of the top 100 songs of 1983 receiving fewer than 100 streams
last week — even Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue,” which is not available in
Spotify — a threshold isn’t as neatly determined with chart points vs. weekly streams. Other than Grant, the highest streaming LF is 0.0037. The lowest is 0.000001547. In addition, the Luminate streaming numbers shown by BDSradio are rounded rather than exact over the 1-million-stream threshold.
But certain patterns do emerge.

It is possible to see that with one prominent recent example, there aren’t many examples of low-airplay/high-streaming songs. It also happens that
when Lost Factor/Airplay and Lost Factor/Streaming differ, some of the
great “radio records” of 1983 are even more lost when it comes to streaming. Frida’s “I Know There’s Something Going On” might not get a lot
of radio airplay now, but it’s even more “lost” when you look at streaming.
The “turntable hit” that listeners didn’t buy in 1983 is now the song that
ISP subscribers don’t stream in 2022, even when there’s no additional charge involved.

That doesn’t mean that lost hits don’t find some audience. Just as writing about Lost Factor meant I could count on almost any song finding a champion among readers, even the least-streamed of 1983’s Top 100 songs, “Fall in Love With Me” by Earth, Wind & Fire, got 23,000 streams in the week
measured. That’s negligible in the streaming world, but it’s a suburb’s worth of listeners. But “Pass the Dutchie” by Musical Youth, powered — like
Kate Bush — by Stranger Things, got upward of 5 million spins that week, making it the only song from the 1983 Top 100 in the same neighborhood as a current hit.  

These are the top 15 Lost Factor/Streaming songs, with their Lost Factor/Airplay rank shown in parentheses. 

1 – Laura Branigan, “Solitaire” (4)

2 – Culture Club, “Time (Clock of the Heart)” (40)

3 – Laura Branigan, “How Am I Supposed to Live Without You” (5)

4 – Eric Clapton, “I’ve Got a Rock ‘n’ Roll Heart” (49)

5 – Frida, “I Know There’s Something Going On” (14)

6 – Shalamar, “Dead Giveaway” (3)

7 – Quarterflash, “Take Me to Heart” (2)

8 – Stray Cats, “(She’s) Sexy + 17” (22)

9 – Styx, “Don’t Let It End” (1)

10 – Greg Kihn Band, “Jeopardy” (35)

11 – Rick Springfield, “Affair of the Heart” (8)

12 – Moving Pictures, “What About Me” (18)

13 – Sergio Mendes, “Never Gonna Let You Go” (31)

14 – Eddie Rabbitt & Crystal Gayle, “You and I” (20)

15 – Human League, “(Keep Feelin’) Fascination” (26)

When you look at Lost Factor/Airplay, there are also a few interesting differentials that emerge, mostly in the soft-rock/soft-pop area. It’s important to note that songs are being compared here by their two Lost
Factor ranks, so that “I Won’t Hold You Back” is not the No. 51 streaming song of the year, it’s just No. 51 in proportionality between 1983 year-end points and last week’s streaming number. But that ratio isn’t as extreme as its year-end-then to airplay-now ratio.

7 – Toto, “I Won’t Hold You Back” (No. 51, Lost Factor/Streaming)

9 – Frank Stallone, “Far From Over” (25)

10 – Bob Seger, “Shame on the Moon” (37)

11 – Lionel Richie, “Truly” (36)

15 – Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton, “We’ve Got Tonight” (43)

16 – Kenny Loggins, “Heart to Heart” (56) 

When you look at the most-streamed songs in 1983’s Top 100, they mostly
line up with what you’d expect to hear on the radio. After “Pass the Dutchie,” last week’s next five-most-streamed songs were “Billie Jean,” “Africa,” “Every Breath You Take,” “Beat It,” and “Sweet Dreams (Are Made
of This).” Only 16 of the Top 100 songs received more than a million
streams for the week measured. But among those that stood out as songs not typically considered hits by AC and Classic Hits radio were these:

Marvin Gaye, “Sexual Healing” — it’s lost ground at radio both as a ballad
and because it’s by an artist from a previous era, but it’s still No. 16 with more than 1.1 million streams.
Toni Basil, “Mickey” — it does get some airplay now, but it’s worth noting
that “Mickey” is still No. 23 with more than 615,000 streams, even though only a rerecorded version is currently available. 
Air Supply, “Making Love Out of Nothing at All” (No. 24, more than 600,000 streams)
Stevie Nicks, “Stand Back” (No. 30, more than 470,000 streams)
Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney, “The Girl is Mine” (No. 34, it was sought out more than 316,000 times — or at least allowed to play through when
people were streaming Thriller)
Bob Seger, “Shame on the Moon” (No. 38, although his hit from 1983 is really “Old Time Rock & Roll,” which was reissued that year due to Risky Business, and which does top the million-stream mark. 


If there aren’t so many streaming-only hits, should radio programmers not remain alert for those songs returned to pop culture by Stranger Things or
in stranger ways? I stand by the recent suggestion that PDs remain alert
for those songs. I recently read a discussion group suggestion that Classic Hits listeners had already long made up their mind about “Running Up That Hill” and that all the streaming activity was coming from their kids. But that’s like saying everybody had made up their mind about “Old Time Rock & Roll” before 1983. 

  


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Dick Broadcasting Makes Lineup Changes In Savannah

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 06:06 AM PDT https://radioinsight.com/headlines/233278/dick-broadcasting-makes-lineup-changes-in-savannah/



Dick Broadcasting has made a couple lineup changes at its Savannah GA
cluster.

Stacy Scott exits as Program Director CHR Hot 98.3 WGCO Midway and Classic
Hits Rewind 107.9 WRWN Port Royal SC. Scott has been with the cluster since 2014 originally co-hosting mornings at CHR Y100 WXYY. She has programmed
WGCO since its flip to CHR in May 2018 and hosted afternoons. She also was hosting middays on Classic Hip Hop G100 WXYY Rincon and weekends at Dicks Energy 92.1 WMYB Myrtle Beach at 107.5 WKZL Greensboro.

Mia Amini, Program Director/afternoon host at WXYY will add middays at
WGCO, while cluster Operations Manager Matt Derrick moves from middays to afternoons. WGCO continues to feature the WKZL based Jared Katie in
mornings and WMYB Myrtle Beachs Zach Williams at night.

Rock 106.1 WFXH Hilton Head Island SC will add Compass Media Networks Dave Mahoney for mornings starting Monday, July 18. That moves morning host John Marshall back to his former afternoon slot. Marshall and former OM Gabe
Kotter Reynolds had moved from afternoons to mornings in March 2021, when
Dicks Two Guys Named Chris morning show was moved to WRWN. WKZQ Myrtle
Beach PD/afternoon host Ron Crash Kissell had been tracking afternoons at
WFXH. WRNS New Berns LA Rock continues in middays and the Greg Beharrell
Show in evenings.


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KDGS PD/Morning Host Greg 'Hitman' Williams Off Air Following Sexual
Harassment Allegations

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 04:51 AM PDT https://radioinsight.com/headlines/233269/kdgs-pd-morning-host-greg-hitman-williams-off-air-following-sexual-harassment-allegations/



Audacy Rhythmic CHR Power 93.5 KDGS Andover/Wichita KS has taken Program Director/morning host Greg Hitman Williams off the air as it investigates sexual harassment claims made by former afternoon host Johnny ‘DJ Koolout’ Starks.

Starks, who had joined KDGS in January, claims that Williams attempted to expose himself to Starks in a station bathroom on July 6 and then fired
Starks the next morning before he had a chance to report the incident to HR
and corporate. Starks detailed his allegations in a long Facebook post
earlier this week. Starks says he has filed a police report against
Williams and intends to sue Audacy for wrongful termination retaliation termination and planning a civil suit against Williams and Audacy for he
and others that wish to come forward with allegations against him.

An Audacy spokesperson told KWCH-TV, “We’ve recently become aware of certain allegations made by a former employee against Greg Williams. We
take these issues seriously and will investigate them fully. While we investigate, we will have no further comment.”

Williams has been a staple in the Wichita market since 1983 first spending
17 years at CHR 107.3 KKRD. He has been Program Director and morning host
at KDGS since Entercom acquired the station in 2000. He wrote on Facebook,
The allegations being spread on social media by a former employee can never
be proven because they are not true. I will share more at the appropriate
time in the appropriate way.


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Station Sales Week of 7/15: Family Radio Grows In Phoenix

Posted: 15 Jul 2022 04:30 AM PDT https://radioinsight.com/headlines/233181/station-sales-week-of-7-15-family-radio-grows-in-phoenix/


Translator Sales

Family Stations will purchase 107.5 K298CK Phoenix from Amigo Multimedia
for $500,000. K298CK, which currently rebroadcasts Amigos Spanish News/Talk Onda 1190 KNUV Tolleson, will be utilized to rebroadcast the buyers 88.3
KPHF Phoenix. KPHF currently shares the 88.3 allocation with VCY Americas
KVCP Phoenix.
Station Sales

Following its purchase of Ruby Radio Corporations Elko NV stations earlier
this year, Rich Hudson’s Global One Media is purchasing Rooney Moon Broadcastings four stations in Clovis NM for $1.1 million. Global One Media will acquire Classic Rock Big 101.5 KRMQ Clovis, Country 105.9 KSEL-FM Portales, Hot AC Mix 107.5 KSMX-FM Clovis, and Classic Country Cow Country
1450 KSEL Portales.

Randal Millers Miller Communications will acquire the 30% stake in the
company held by Lawrence Travis for $200,000. Miller, who holds the other
70% equity, will gain full control over Miller Communications Country 94.3
WMKR Pana, Classic Hits Groovy 97.3 WRAN Taylorville, New Country 104.1
W281BO Taylorville, and 96.1 W241CF Taylorville and fold in Kaskaskia Broadcastings Oldies Cruisin 98.3 WSVZ Tower Hill IL, Christian AC 107.5 Shine-FM W298CD Shelbyville and News/Talk 870 WTIM Assumption and
translators 96.5 W243DN Taylorville and 107.9 W300EH Pana.

Cameron Maxwells Desert Mountain Broadcasting will expand into Butte MT
with the purchase of Associated Students of Montana Techs 103.9 KMSM-FM
Butte for $45,000.

Icon Broadcasting sells Country 99.3 The Bull WQDK Gatesville NC to Augusta Radio Fellowship Institute for $130,000.

South Central Oklahoma Christian Broadcasting, Inc. sells Gospel 90.7 KOUI Louisville MS to Joy Christian Ministries Church for $10.

Richard A. Bouchard will increase his ownership stake in Bouchard
Broadcastings News/Talk 1380 WNRI/99.9 W260DC Woonsocket RI from 43 to 71 percent by acquiring David St. Onges 14% stake for $84,000 and Claudette Lalibertes 14% stake for $50,000.

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