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Here Comes The Sun</strong></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><strong>2. Let It Be (there’s also another version of it further down)</strong></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><strong>3. In My Life</strong></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><strong>4. Blackbird</strong></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><strong>5. Come Together</strong></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><strong>6. With A Little Help From My Friends</strong></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><strong>7. Hey Jude</strong></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><strong>8. While My Guitar Gently Weeps</strong></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><strong>9. Twist & Shout (would probably be higher if combined with another version below)</strong></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><strong>10. Eleanor Rigby</strong><strong></strong></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;">As has radio in recent years, the list tends to default to mid-to-late period Beatles. It is led by one of the songs that has emerged as the group’s most enduring at radio, while “Come Together” has always benefited from being the song that Greatest Hits and Classic Rock formats can agree on, as well as feeling a little newer to people because of its 1978 Aerosmith remake. The only early Beatles title is “Twist & Shout,” which, of course, is actually a 1986 record to subsequent generations.</p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;">Two of the top five Beatles songs – “In My Life” and “Blackbird” – aren’t radio mainstays. But there’s a definite lean on this list to not just balladry but songs that are practically elegiac. (“A Day In The Life” is right after “Eleanor Rigby.”) It will be interesting to see if the sales story moves some of those songs, “In My Life” particularly, back into station research at least, or if a sales story on an outlier title is as staunchly resisted as it is in other formats.</p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;">Billboard only allows current titles to make the Hot 100, although the titles will be eligible for the Digital Songs Chart. So the Beatles won’t get a chance to go back ahead of “Glee” for the number of charted singles—a number that was distorted in the first place by the TV show’s ability to chart every song, not just physical singles. But the revenge would have been limited, several of this week’s passel of “Glee” tracks were ahead of even “Here Comes The Sun.” So was Willow (Smith’s) “Whip My Hair.”</p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><strong></strong>There would have been one interesting historical rewrite. Joe Persek, recently namechecked in this column and the guy who started this discussion with an e-mail thread yesterday morning, points out that the Beatles would finally have had the biggest chart version of “Here Comes The Sun,” a distinction that will instead continue to go to Richie Havens.<br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/mailto:rossonradio@in3media.com">comment <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/ror/icon_comment.gif" alt="Comment" width="32" height="32" border="0" align="absbottom" target="Comment"></a></span></p>   <a name="StoryB"> <div> <h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 22px; color: #1E2124; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.15em; display: block; padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-bottom: 15px; border-bottom: 3px double #EC6C33; border-top: 1px solid #EC6C33;">Racing To Share Control Of The Radio</h1> </div></a>   <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; color: #D24608; text-transform: uppercase;">It was an interesting</span> sequence of announcements.</p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/ror/logo_jelli.jpg" alt="Jelli logo" width="125" height="100" border="0" style="margin-right:10px; margin-top:6px;" align="left"> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;">At 3 p.m. on Monday afternoon (15), Jelli—the crowdsourced Internet radio station/syndicated program/Website—announced that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://94wysp.radio.com/">Classic Rock WYSP Philadelphia</a> was expanding its Jelli-based programming from Monday nights to its entire evening shift. In addition, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.wpst.com/">Top 40 WPST Trenton/Philadelphia</a> would be switching its late night shift from the national “Jelli Pop” service to a “local, Philly-controlled program,” which will now be known on the air as “Real Time Radio”—notable since stations had been encouraged to use the national brand.</p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/ror/logo_ldr-lrg.jpg" alt="Listener Driven Radio logo" width="125" height="100" border="0" style="margin-right:10px; margin-top:6px;" align="left"> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;">Less than three hours later, Clear Channel’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.my1061.com/pages/mix-1061/">WISX (My 106.1) Philadelphia</a> made its own announcement. Besides segueing from Rhythmic Hot AC to a more traditional Hot AC as Mix 106.1, the station was going to use rival Listener Driven Radio and rebrand its 9 a.m-5 p.m. programming as “Mix Control,” starting today. (Interestingly, the Noon-7 p.m. host on Mix is the Detroit-based Jay Towers, which will add an additional wrinkle to being interactive.)</p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;">The crowding of the crowd-sourcing releases brought to mind the late ‘80s when, for a few frantic months, Top 40 radio stations suddenly discovered the “Yes/No Radio” concept that, until then, had been best known as the calling card for the San Jose and Orange County, Calif., radio stations of maverick AC programmer Bill Weaver. </p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;">These announcements were for the industry, not listeners, but the race to get them out suggests that interactivity has again become a place where some broadcasters wish to engage with Internet pureplays. Over the last five years, broadcasters have sometimes rushed to get listener playlists on the air and other times thrown their hands up and decided their role was as curators. And as with the growth of Talk radio on AM two decades ago, it also shows how much easier it is to do something when there’s a syndicated asset available.</p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;">We’ll take a listen to Mix 106.1 (and a Fresh Listen to WPST’s crowdsourced show) in Monday’s edition of our new AC/Hot AC/Adult Top 40 newsletter, “25+.” If you’re not receiving “25+” yet and you’d like to (or if you’re not getting Ross On Radio directly), <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/mailto:rossonradio@in3media.com">just e-mail me.</a></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><strong><em>(Disclosure: Listener Driven Radio’s Daniel Anstandig is also the author of Radio-Info’s Radio 3-D newsletter.)</em></strong><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/mailto:rossonradio@in3media.com">comment <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/ror/icon_comment.gif" alt="Comment" width="32" height="32" border="0" align="absbottom" target="Comment"></a></span></p>   <div style="display: block; padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; border-bottom: 1px solid #666; border-top: 1px solid #666;"><a name="StoryC" id="StoryC"> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 20px; color: #1E2124; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 1.15em;">Readers on radio</span></a><br> <span style="font-style:italic; font-size: 19px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1.25em; color: #D24608">Staying Current Or Moving On, The Final Provocation</span></div>   <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; color: #D24608; text-transform: uppercase;"> “The only reason </span>I <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.radio-info.com/newsletter/html/ror-11092010.html">stay current</a> is so I can act as a filter for some of the utter garbage that is being pushed upon our youth as music. Was it really necessary for anyone to play ‘Forget You’ or whatever it was called? . . . I marvel at those who still collect music who are my age and wonder what’s the purpose: so you can have the ‘clean’ version of the latest Eminem tune?” – <strong>Brian Wolfe, WKYE, Johnstown, Pa.,</strong> one of several readers for whom the original title of Cee-Lo Green’s “F--- You” seemed to be a particular provocation.</p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.radio-info.com/newsletter/html/ror-11112010.html">“A footnote to your KVI story.</a> The reason [Greatest Hits] KMCQ [Seattle] has not shown in PPM is that First Broadcasting is not encoding the station.” – <strong>Mike Preston, PD, KKWF (The Wolf) Seattle.</strong></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.radio-info.com/newsletter/html/ror-11112010.html">“Houston’s ‘The Zone’</a> a natural progression from what they were, ‘The Point.’ It’s been nearly ten years since The Point premiered, playing the late ‘70s and ‘80s. Now the audience has grown up ten years and wants the next decade of music.” – <strong>Robert Heiney, Houston</strong></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;">“Looks like [The Zone] had some old KRBE ‘Hits Without The Hype’ playlists to look over.” – <strong>Mark Summer, Bristol Broadcasting, Paducah, Ky.</strong></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;">Have a great weekend. “Ross On Radio” is back on Tuesday.<br/> <span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #000;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/mailto:rossonradio@in3media.com">comment <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/ror/icon_comment.gif" alt="Comment" width="32" height="32" border="0" align="absbottom" target="Comment"></a></span></p>   <div align="left" style="margin: 50px 0 50px 0; border-bottom: 3px double #EC6C33; border-top: 3px double #EC6C33; padding-bottom: 8px;"> <h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 22px; color: #1E2124; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.15em; margin: 0 0 0 5px; text-align: left; padding-top: 3px"><strong></strong>Applause For Alpert</h1> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/ror/img_herb-alpert.jpg" alt="Herb Alpert" width="300" height="200" border="0"> <p style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; color: #000; margin: 5px 10px 0 10px; text-align: left; padding-top: 5px; border-top: 1px solid #EC6C33;">Legendary artist/industry executive Herb Alpert was one of the honorees at WBGO (Jazz 88) New York’s annual “Champions Of Jazz” event. He’s flanked by the no-less-legendary Jon Hendricks and Dee Dee Bridgewater. (Photo: Fran Kaufman) </p></div>   <div align="left" style="margin: 0 0 50px 0; border-bottom: 3px double #EC6C33; border-top: 3px double #EC6C33; padding-bottom: 8px;"> <h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 22px; color: #1E2124; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.15em; margin: 0 0 0 5px; text-align: left; padding-top: 3px"><strong></strong>Truckloads Of Hope</h1> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/ror/img_shoe-drive.jpg" alt="WCVK Shoe Drive" width="300" height="194" border="0"> <p style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; color: #000; margin: 5px 10px 0 10px; text-align: left; padding-top: 5px; border-top: 1px solid #EC6C33;">WCVK (Christian Family Radio) Bowling Green, Ky., promotions director Derek Gregory stands next to just one of many truckloads of listener donations in the station’s recent shoe drive. There are 520 pairs of shoes in the pickup.</p> </div>        <p style="line-height: 16px; color: #333; font-style: italic; font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-top:5px; border-top: 3px double #666;">Sean Ross is Executive Editor of Music and Programming for Radio-Info.com. He is also a consultant to the radio and music industries, and VP of music and programming for Edison Research. He can be reached at 973.763.1306. 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line-height: 18px; display: block; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="#StoryB"> Much Brotherly Love This Week For Crowd-Sourced Radio</a></p> <p style="margin: 10px 10px 0 25px; line-height: 18px; display: block; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="#StoryC">Readers Asked Why They Don’t Follow Today’s Hits And They’re Like, “Forget You”</a></p> <p style="margin: 10px 10px 30px 25px; line-height: 18px; display: block; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 10px; border-bottom: 3px double #EC6C33;"><a href="#rbaw">Radio’s Best & Worst: Pittman’s Back, Rihanna Defended By “#1 B----,” And Fearing The Holiday Budget Reaper</a></p> </div>   <div align="left"><p style="margin: 0 10px 2px 25px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 22px; color: #1E2124; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.15em; display: block; padding-top: 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid #EC6C33;">More “Ross On Radio”</p> <p style="margin: 10px 10px 0 25px; 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font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.radio-info.com/programming/programming-music/holiday-format-flips-2010">Your Daily Source For Holiday Format Flips</a></p> <p style="margin: 10px 10px 75px 25px; line-height: 18px; display: block; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 10px; border-bottom: 3px double #EC6C33;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.radio-info.com/news">Today’s Breaking News From Radio-Info.com</a></p> </div>   <div align="center" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom:75px; height:250px;"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/creatives/101118blackeyedpeas300x250.jpg" alt="Interscope - Black Eyed Peas" width="300" height="250" border="0"></div>   <div align="center" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom:75px; height:250px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.kellypidgeon.com/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/creatives/101011kellypidgeon.com300x250.jpg" alt="Kelly Pidgeon" width="300" height="250" border="0"></a></div>   <div align="center" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom:75px; height:250px;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.mediaguide.com/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/creatives/100914mediaguide300x250.jpg" alt="Mediaguide - Do you want Smart Radio Data?" width="300" height="250" border="0"></a></div>   <div style="margin: 0 10px 50px 25px; border-bottom: 1px solid #EC6C33; border-top: 1px solid #666; padding-bottom: 8px;">  <a name="rbaw" id="rbaw"> <div style="display: block; padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; margin-bottom: 15px; border-bottom: 1px solid #666; text-align:center;"><img style="margin-bottom:4px;" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/ror/rbaw-logo-newsletter.jpg" width="175" height="111" alt="Ross on Radio" border="0"></div></a> <p>  <span style="font-size: 15px; color: #D24608; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px;">Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending Nov. 18, 2010. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or another) capacity are asterisked.*</span></p> <h5 style="margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Best Press</h5> <p style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000; font-size: 11px;"><strong>Bob Pittman joining Clear Channel</strong> – Okay, there are a lot of people in our business who are great cheerleaders for the medium, or trying to expand radio aggressively on to new platforms. But it’s still a nice vote of confidence for radio to have him back in the forefront, as evidenced by the publicity his announcement has generated.</p> <h5 style="margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Greatest Uneasiness</h5> <p style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000; font-size: 11px;"><strong>Waiting For The Q4 Personnel Cuts</strong> – For the last few years, the end of the year has been like watching Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” unfold in our business, with jobs (and sometimes careers) randomly selected for elimination. And although the survivors try to reassure themselves otherwise, it’s often only the luck of the draw that seems to stand between those who still have a career and those who don’t. So one can only hope that the “up-from-the-bottom” optimism of 2010 carries us through the holiday season as well. </p> <h5 style="margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">FM Station</h5> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/ror/logo_curve943-sml.jpg" alt="CHIQ (Curve 94.3) Winnipeg logo" width="125" height="60" border="0" style="margin-right:10px; margin-top:6px;" align="left"> <p style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000; font-size: 11px;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.curve943.com/">CHIQ (Curve 94.3) Winnipeg</a></strong> – Their Alternative/Top 40 hybrid has expanded a little bit in both directions—more “Gen-X Radio”-type ‘90s and more Mainstream CHR product. It’s now billed as “Real Music Variety” and, to prove it, I heard Beyoncé’s “Crazy In Love” into Bush’s “Machinehead” (which, sonically, worked pretty well, actually).</p> <h5 style="margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Station Stunt</h5> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/ror/logo_kost1035holiday-sml.jpg" alt="AC KOST Los Angeles holiday logo" width="125" height="60" border="0" style="margin-right:10px; margin-top:6px;" align="left"> <p style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000; font-size: 11px;"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.kost1035.com/main.html">AC KOST Los Angeles</a> is “ordered” to kick-off Christmas music by Michael Bublé.</strong> A creative way to take the sting off those “you guys start the Christmas music too early” complaints.</p> <h5 style="margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Station Billboard</h5> <p style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000; font-size: 11px;"><strong>The rotating digital billboards in the New York area for Clear Channel’s iHeart Radio</strong> which, when spotted in the last few days, were emphasizing “I Heart Country”—exactly what an online option should be doing in a market that still doesn’t have a Country station of its own.</p> <h5 style="margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Listener Comment</h5> <p style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000; font-size: 11px;">“It’s all about freedom of speech. I used to wear a nail charm that says ‘#1 B---’ on it.” – A listener to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.alice1059.com/">KALC (Alice 106.3) Denver’s*</a> B.J., Howie, and Erica show defends Rihanna’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.vibe.com/photo-galleries/rihannas-necklace-says-f-k-you-young-fans">controversial recent public choice of jewelry.</a></p> <h5 style="margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"><strong>Old-School Liner</strong></h5> <p style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000; font-size: 11px;"> “If anybody asks, you’re listening to . . . “ – A Top 40 station in a diary market pulls out one that most of us haven’t heard in a while, even outside PPM markets.</p> <h5 style="margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Agency Spot</h5> <p style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000; font-size: 11px;"> <strong> The Kia Winterfest Ad </strong> where a happy customer tries to give an awards show-style acceptance speech but keeps getting played off by an orchestra. One hopes they’ll repeat the promotion during the actual awards season. </p> <h5 style="margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Sponsor Name</h5> <p style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000; font-size: 11px;"> <strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.happyhormonecottage.com/">The Happy Hormone Cottage</a></strong> – An Ohio-based compounding pharmacy for women as heard on Cincinnati radio this week.</p> <h5 style="margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Promotion Name</h5> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/ror/logo_b1039-sml.jpg" alt="WXKB (B103.9) Fort Myers, Fla. logo" width="125" height="60" border="0" style="margin-right:10px; margin-top:6px;" align="left"> <p style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000; font-size: 11px;"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.b1039.com/">WXKB (B103.9) Fort Myers, Fla.,</a> morning man Big Mama celebrates his family’s upcoming blessed event with Big Mama’s Baby Bash, starring the artist Baby Bash. </p> <h5 style="margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Best Promotional Mileage</h5> <p style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000; font-size: 11px;"> KSTP-FM (KS95) Minneapolis’ sweatshirt ends up on the Goo Goo Dolls’ Johnny Rzeznik in a meet-and-greet in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://ggdphotos.phanfare.com/4907187">Bristol, England.</a></p> <h5 style="margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Segues</h5> <p style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000; font-size: 11px;"> <strong> Selena Gomez’s “Naturally” into New Kids On The Block’s “Please Don’t Go (Girl)” </strong> on Rhythmic Hot AC WKTU New York. Two songs, 21 years apart, that span at least 10 generations of teen idols. KTU is giving away tickets to the upcoming Backstreet Boys/New Kids tour. </p> <p style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000; font-size: 11px;"><strong>Van Halen’s “And The Cradle Will Rock” into Grateful Dead’s “Bertha” </strong> on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.q1043.com/main.html">Classic Rock WAXQ (Q104.3) New York,</a> making it a double for the Clear Channel/New York cluster last Saturday morning. Discussions of Q104.3 often default to the softer Classic Hits side of a station that can play Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away” and plenty of Elton John, Billy Joel, etc. But the real defining characteristic of the station lately is variety; (there’s also been a lot of on-air emphasis on depth as well).</p> <h5 style="margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Oh Wow Oldie</h5> <p style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000; font-size: 11px;"><strong>Rocazino, “Elsk Mig I Nat”</strong> – On Danish Gold-based AC <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.popfm.dk/">Pop FM.</a> In case you’ve ever wondered <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmslbh58cZQ">what the Danish version of our early-‘80s Go-Gos retro/pop sounded like.</a></p> <h5 style="margin: 0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"><strong><br> That’s our Best & Worst. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/mailto:rossonradio@in3media.com"><br> What’s yours?</a></strong></h5> </div>   <div align="center" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom:20px; height:250px;"><a href="*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611im_/http://radio-info.com/in3_src/images/newsletter/creatives/091118housead-urban300x250.jpg" alt="Subscribe to Urban First at no charge!" width="300" height="250" border="0"></a></div>        </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> </table> </td></tr></table>  <tr><td colspan="2"> <table cellpadding="10"><tr><td> <p style="color:#000; font-family: calibri, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.5em; display: block; border-top: 1px dotted #F6A229; text-align: right"> www.radio-Info.com</p> <span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight:bold;">Your Email Options</span> <p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0"> You are receiving this email at *|EMAIL|* because you subscribed at radio-info.com for the Ross On Radio newsletter.<br> <a href="*|UNSUB|*">Stop Receiving this Email</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.radio-info.com/member/new">Start Receiving this Email</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101203171611/http://www.radio-info.com/pages/5-contact-us">Send Feedback</a> | <a href="*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*">Update Subscriptions</a> | <a href="*|FORWARD|*">Forward to a Friend<br> </a><br></p> <span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; margin: 0; padding: 0;">Report News</span><br> <p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0">Are there changes in your market? 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