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Final Listen: Dr. Demento

1 week ago | radioinsight.com | Sean Ross

“Now I have a special announcement,” said Barry “Dr. Demento” Hansen, after playing the No. 1 song on the Dr. Demento show’s top 10 countdown. “I’m now 84 years old and I have been doing this show for nearly 55 years — about two-thirds of my life. It’s been a blast, but I have come to the decision that I need to hang up my top hat soon. The show you just heard is the last of my regular shows.”By the time I listened to the most recent episode of Dr. Demento,that news had been out for several days.
From Michael to Morgan: A Radio History of No. 1 Debuts

2 weeks ago | radioinsight.com | Sean Ross

From almost the beginning of rock and roll, songs were debuting at No. 1 on the UK charts. The first two were Elvis Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock” and “It’s Now or Never.” Over the years, the list included “Get Back” by the Beatles, “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by the Police, “Two Tribes” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and the early-’90s reissue of “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen.
Why Requests Matter In 2025

2 weeks ago | radioinsight.com | Sean Ross

It was roughly a year ago when Liveline host Mason Kelter remarked that most of his requests were suddenly for current hit songs again. It was a positive sign for a battered Top 40 format that came on the heels of a strong Summer Song field and a Billboard Top 10 that suddenly aligned with what radio was playing. I wanted to see those requests. Then I suggested that Liveline should be sharing them with Ross on Radio readers every week.
Why Jazzy Jim Archer and Sarah Cummings Are Optimistic About Radio

2 weeks ago | radioinsight.com | Sean Ross

“I’m meeting eleven-, twelve-, and thirteen-year-olds” who say “radio is much better than Pandora or Spotify or other places, because guess what? It is.”That’s KMVQ (99.7 Now) San Francisco PD Jazzy Jim Archer talking about the outreach his station has done to students, in an effort to expose them to radio.
Final/First Listen: Classic Country 1370 KSOP Salt Lake City

2 weeks ago | radioinsight.com | Sean Ross

For a long time, to discover a Classic Country station was to know that it probably wouldn’t be around very long. WMZQ Washington, D.C., and KFKF Kansas City had short-lived AMs during the ‘80s that were part of my education in the genre. But when Classic Country began popping up on FM a decade or two later, even ratings weren’t enough to protect a station from a sales department’s quest for younger listeners.
What Power Rotations Say About Country Radio

3 weeks ago | radioinsight.com | Sean Ross

What do Country stations’ most-played currents say about the format, particularly about the mix of callout-driven and streaming-driven titles that affect so much of the format’s alchemy now? Despite streaming’s undeniable impact, and its ability to create faster-breaking hits, power rotation still seems to show a greater influence from either more-traditional callout-driven hits or at least those driven by both indicators.
About Ed Sheeran (And Other Veteran Artists)

4 weeks ago | radioinsight.com | Sean Ross

The knives have been out for Ed Sheeran for a long time. He barely got to enjoy a few years of hits before the critics pounced. In 2018, the Grammys made their statement by overlooking “Shape of You” for Record of the Year to nominate “The Story of O.J.” by Jay-Z. Like Taylor Swift, there were already murmurs about Sheeran’s place at CHR by the time of his duets album in 2019.
Handicapping the Summer Song of 2025

1 month ago | radioinsight.com | Sean Ross

As recently as last year, the Summer Song derby was always good for artist comebacks, from Kid Rock to Enrique Iglesias to Hozier, eventually getting to the point where a song about summer doesn’t even have to be involved. Connie Francis, an unlikely comeback even by the standards of the TikTok era, has been propelled back into pop culture by an album obscurity, but she did have a summer hit about summer around the same time. Connie Francis’s “Vacation” was not the Summer Song of 1962.
The Double-Wide Radio Station

1 month ago | radioinsight.com | Sean Ross

The wildly successful Adult Hits stations of the early ’00s — many of them still so — sometimes told listeners that they played “everything.” To the industry, however, they described themselves as “a mile wide and an inch deep.” They mostly combined the best of an Oldies/Classic Hits station and the list of a Hot AC. Any “oh wow” depth came mainly from the late ’70s and ’80s. Adult Hits stations were nevertheless wide enough to redefine what radio could do and still be considered well-programmed.
Jim Ryan: 33 Days Later (The Ross On Radio Interview)

1 month ago | radioinsight.com | Sean Ross

A lot of the programming trends followed in Ross On Radio recently have to do with the modernization of the Classic Hits and Adult Contemporary formats. Veteran PD Jim Ryan successfully steered WLTW (Lite FM) New York to a more uptempo, contemporary approach that some didn’t think was possible in Mainstream AC. But at Classic Hits rival WCBS-FM, he successfully hewed to the ‘70s/’80s version of the format and a relatively wide playlist, different from what was happening elsewhere in the format.