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Norsan Media Expands In Jacksonville

Posted: 20 Apr 2021 01:37 PM PDT
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Norsan Media is acquiring Classic Country Jax 105.3 WYKB Fernadina
Beach/Jacksonville FL from NIA Broadcasting for $1 million.

Norsan, which operates Spanish language stations in multiple Southern
markets, will begin operating WYKB via LMA on May 1.

Nosan Media already owns three AMs and one FM in the Jacksonville market
with two brands: Regional Mexican La Raza 92.9 970 WNNR Jacksonville/92.9
W225BI Stockade and 1570 WVOJ Fernandina Beach, Spanish AC Latina 92.1 WJXR
Macclenny/1160 WEWC Callahan.



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Kristy Kelly Rises To WWQM Music Director

Posted: 20 Apr 2021 12:57 PM PDT
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Mid-West Family Broadcasting Country Q106 WWQM-FM Middleton/Madison has
promoted afternoon host Kristi Kelly to Music Director.

Kelly has been with the cluster for fifteen years mostly in promotions and
events. She added afternoon duties at the station in 2020.

Mid-West Family Madison is proud to announce the promotion of Kristi Kelly
to Music Director for WWQM/Q106FM. “Kristi is perfect for this job,� said
Randy Hawke, VP of Programming for Mid-West Family Madison. “She knows and
loves the music. She also understands the plan and is more than qualified
to carry it out.�

Kelly has spent her radio career at Mid-West Family Madison, starting over
15 years ago in events and promotions. “I’m really excited to explore the
programming side of the business�, said Kelly. “It’s going to be great to
put my passion for country music to work!�

In addition to the Music Director role, Kelly will also be on the air from
3-7pm. She can be reached at , or 608-441-3652.




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The 100 Most Lost Songs of the 60s

Posted: 20 Apr 2021 09:00 AM PDT
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I started listening to pop radio in 1967, around the time that Top 40 radio
started playing oldies in a more regular way. But by then, many of the ‘60s
songs with the highest “Lost Factor� were already gone from the radio. In
fact, less than half are songs I grew up hearing on the radio on any
regular basis.

“Lost Factor� mathematically calculates whether songs are currently
receiving airplay proportionate to their hit status at the time by awarding
points for year-end chart placement and dividing them by the number of
weekly broadcast radio spins they get today. Of the top 102 Lost Factor
songs (including a three-way tie for No. 100), only about 40% are songs
that I heard on a regular basis.

There are only 10 songs that I remember hearing as current hits on the
radio, not surprising since 71% of the songs in question are from the
pre-Beatles years, 1960-63; 22% are from the year 1960 alone.
There are another six that I remember hearing either as gold or in other
settings (e.g., hearing Bent Fabric’s “Alley Cat� in gym class).
There are another 20 that were a regular part of the Oldies stations that I
listened to during the nostalgia craze of the early ‘70s. All of those
songs were long gone from the “safe list� that emerged when Oldies had its
late ‘80s/early ‘90s format resurgence.
There are five songs, from “Mockingbird� to “My Heart Has a Mind of Its
Own,� that I learned because they were remade over the next decade or so.


The top 100 of the 1960s is an expanded version of a top 15 list that ran
last July, a few months after we began our Lost Factor calculations. Even
that list was full of instrumentals, early ‘60s titles, and one early ‘60s
instrumental, “Theme from ‘A Summer Place,’� that had a perfect 100 score —
a No. 1 song of the year that had gotten no plays at BDSRadio-monitored
stations in the previous week.

Now that we’ve expanded to 102 songs, they include:

25 instrumental hits;
24 artists that would now be considered MOR acts, not including
instrumentals;
17 artists that were considered teen idols (in general, the likes of Steve
Lawrence and Connie Francis were classified MOR, even though you could have
made a case for them as either);
Six folky songs from the early ‘60s hootenanny era of pop music;
Three songs that would be considered bubblegum; a lot of late ‘60s
bubblegum is scarce on the radio now, but the Lost Factor scores are
generally lower than the early ‘60s MOR, not surprising when we’re talking
about 60-year-old songs.


Connie Francis is the artist who makes the most appearances among the 102
songs (with three titles). Those with two range from Chubby Checker and
Gary “U.S.� Bonds to piano duo Ferrante & Teicher to bubblegum’s 1910
Fruitgum Company, the only late ’60s act with more than one title.

The Lost Factor within the top 102 songs stretches from the 100 score for
“Theme From ‘A Summer Place’� to a 45 score for the last three songs. By
comparison, the ‘70s’ top 100 ranges between 91 at the top and 14 at the
bottom. As the passage of time would suggest, the ‘60s songs are a lot more
gone from broadcast radio.

Here are the Top 100 Lost Factor Hits of the ‘60s. None received more than
two spins for the week we calculated. (BDSRadio monitors mostly large- and
medium-market stations. It does not include SiriusXM’s 60s on 6, although
many of these would be “oh wow� songs even there.)
RANK ARTIST TITLE YEAR SPINS 1 Percy Faith Theme From A Summer Place 1960 0
2 Paul Mauriat Love Is Blue 1968 0 3 Highwaymen Michael 1961 0 4 Chubby
Checker Pony Time 1961 0 5 Hugo Montenegro The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1968 0 6 Sensations Let Me In 1962 0 7 String-A-Longs Wheels 1961 1 8
S/Sgt. Barry Sadler Ballad of the Green Berets 1966 0 9 Connie Francis
Everybody's Somebody's Fool 1960 0 10 Brothers Four Greenfields 1960 0 11
Jack Scott What In The World's Come Over You 1960 0 12 Al Martino I Love
You Because 1963 0 13 Mar-Keys Last Night 1961 1 14 Rebels Wild Weekend
1963 0 15 Connie Francis My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own 1960 0 15 Ferrante
& Teicher Exodus 1961 0 15 Chubby Checker & Dee Dee Sharp Slow Twistin'
1962 0 15 Bobby Darin You're the Reason I'm Living 1963 0 19 Johnny
Tillotson It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin' 1962 0 19 Billy J. Kramer & Dakotas
Little Children 1964 0 21 Inez & Charlie Foxx Mockingbird 1963 0 21 Ray
Charles Singers Love Me With All Your Heart 1964 0 23 Sue Thompson Sad
Movies (Make Me Cry) 1961 0 24 Chantays Pipeline 1963 0 25 Connie Stevens
Sixteen Reasons 1960 0 26 Sandy Posey Born a Woman 1966 0 27 Frankie Avalon
Why 1960 0 28 Brook Benton The Boll Weevil Song 1961 0 28 Vikki Carr It
Must Be Him 1967 0 30 Sounds Orchestral Cast Your Fate to the Wind 1965 0
30 Roger Williams Born Free 1966 0 32 Dick & Dee Dee The Mountain's High
1961 0 33 Floyd Cramer On the Rebound 1961 0 34 Georgie Fame The Ballad of
Bonnie and Clyde 1968 1 35 Steve Lawrence Portrait of My Love 1961 0 35 Jay
& Americans She Cried 1962 0 35 Trini Lopez If I Had a Hammer 1963 0 38
Jimmy Jones Good Timin' 1960 0 38 Connie Francis Don't Break the Heart That
Loves You 1962 0 40 Gary U.S. Bonds Dear Lady Twist 1962 0 40 Serendipity
Singers Don't Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man) 1964 0 40 Bert
Kaempfert Red Roses for a Blue Lady 1965 0 43 Jimmy Clanton Go, Jimmy, Go
1960 0 43 Sue Thompson Norman 1962 0 43 1910 Fruitgum Company Simon Says
1968 0 46 Jackie Wilson Night 1960 0 46 Betty Everett & Jerry Butler Let It
Be Me 1964 0 48 Jack Scott Burning Bridges 1960 1 48 Jørgen Ingmann Apache
1961 1 50 Linda Scott Don't Bet Money Honey 1961 0 50 Highwaymen Cotton
Fields 1962 0 52 Duane Eddy Because They're Young 1960 0 52 Johnny
Tillotson Without You 1961 0 52 Henry Mancini Days of Wine and Roses 1963 0
55 Bent Fabric Alley Cat 1962 1 56 Conway Twitty Lonely Blue Boy 1960 0 57
Steve Lawrence Pretty Blue Eyes 1960 0 57 Richard Chamberlain Theme
From "Dr. Kildare" 1962 0 59 Ace Cannon Tuff 1962 0 60 Patti Page Hush,
Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1965 1 61 Anita Bryant Paper Roses 1960 0 61 Clyde
McPhatter Lover Please 1962 0 61 Bill Anderson Still 1963 0 61 Gene & Debbe
Playboy 1968 0 61 Bobby Sherman Little Woman 1969 0 66 Larry Verne Mr.
Custer 1960 0 66 Troy Shondell This Time 1961 0 66 Danny Williams White on
White 1964 0 66 Freddie & Dreamers I'm Telling You Now 1965 0 70 Bobby
Vinton Please Love Me Forever 1967 0 71 Ricky Nelson Young World 1962 1 72
Kokomo Asia Minor 1961 0 72 Tommy Roe Hooray for Hazel 1966 0 72 Dionne
Warwick Alfie 1967 0 75 Fendermen Mule Skinner Blues 1960 1 76 Pat Boone
Speedy Gonzales 1962 0 77 Burl Ives A Little Bitty Tear 1962 0 77 Ed Ames
My Cup Runneth Over 1967 0 79 Arthur Lyman Yellow Bird 1961 0 79 Horst
Jankowski A Walk in the Black Forest 1965 0 79 Charles Wright & Watts 103rd
Street Rhythm Band Do Your Thing 1969 0 82 Ron Holden Love You So 1960 0 82
Timi Yuro Hurt 1961 0 82 Emilio Pericoli Al di LÃ* 1962 0 82 Lonnie Mack
Memphis 1963 0 82 1910 Fruitgum Company 1, 2, 3, Red Light 1968 0 87 Ernie
Maresca Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out) 1962 0 88 Don & Juan What's Your
Name 1962 0 88 Kai Winding More 1963 0 90 Platters Harbor Lights 1960 1 91
Corsairs Smoky Places 1962 0 91 Sammy Davis Jr. I've Gotta Be Me 1969 0 91
Jeanne Black He'll Have to Stay 1960 0 94 Ferrante & Teicher Theme
from "The Apartment" 1960 0 94 People I Love You 1968 0 96 Gary U.S. Bonds
School Is Out 1961 0 96 Bill Pursell Our Winter Love 1963 0 96 Percy Sledge
Take Time to Know Her 1968 0 99 Elvis Presley Crying in the Chapel 1965 2
100 Joanie Sommers Johnny Get Angry 1962 0 100 Ral Donner You Don't Know
What You've Got (Until You Lose It) 1961 0 100 Andy Williams The Village of
St. Bernadette 1960 0

We also looked at which songs overperform their year-end chart placing.
These are songs with the lowest “Lost Factors� that now receive more than
100 spins a week at radio. These calculations were revised on April 17 from
our initial tabulation. Thanks to an e-mail from reader Daniel O’Connor, we
realized that not all eligible songs had been included; (this did not in
any way impact the Top 100 Lost Factor songs above).
RANK ARTIST TITLE YEAR SPINS 1 Beatles Come Together 1969 770 2 Steppenwolf
Magic Carpet Ride 1968 793 3 Beatles Revolution 1968 428 4 Cream White Room
1968 337 5 Monkees Daydream Believer 1967 103 6 Van Morrison Brown Eyed
Girl 1967 965 7 Steppenwolf Born to Be Wild 1968 767 8 Rolling Stones Paint
It Black 1966 727 9 Marvin Gaye I Heard It Through the Grapevine 1969 111
10 Rolling Stones Jumpin' Jack Flash 1968 404 11 Rolling Stones (I Can't
Get No) Satisfaction 1965 760 12 Beatles Something 1969 103 13 Kinks You
Really Got Me 1964 122 14 Ben E. King Stand by Me 1961 198 15 Creedence
Clearwater Revival Bad Moon Rising 1969 393



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Suburban New York AM To Go All Digital Next Month

Posted: 20 Apr 2021 08:28 AM PDT
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The New York area will get a digital only AM next month.

Cumulus Medias 1230 WFAS White Plains NY filed a digital notification with
the FCC on Monday proposing to convert to all-digital as on Monday, May 24.
The 1kW AM covers the northern half of the market.

Upon completion, WFAS will become the third AM in the country to convert to
all-digital. Hubbards The Gamut 820 WWFD Frederick MD has been operating on
experimental authority for a few years. After the FCC approved voluntary
all-digital operation last fall, NIA Broadcastings Caliente 96.1 1470 WMGG
Egypt Lake/Tampa commenced in January.

WFAS has also flipped from the CBS Sports Radio network to Conservative
Talk utilizing programming from the companys Westwood One ahead of the
digital conversion.





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Gossip Greg Takes Nights At 96.7 Kiss-FM

Posted: 20 Apr 2021 07:53 AM PDT
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iHeartMedia CHR “96.7 Kiss-FM� KHFI Georgetown/Austin has given its night
show to Gossip Greg Hill.

Greg was most recently part of the Billy The Kidd Morning Show at KHFI
until its cancellation in January.

Hill began his career as an intern and producer at 97.5 WABD Mobile and
later hosted afternoons at iHearts 107.3 Kiss-FM WRGV Pensacola FL. He
joined KHFI as morning show producer and co-host in March 2019.












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The Rock Channel Absorbs Lynchburg's Planet

Posted: 20 Apr 2021 07:36 AM PDT
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Ahead of its purchase of Classic Rock 97.9 The Planet WZZU Lynchburg VA,
Mel Wheeler Inc. has flipped the station to a simulcast of its Rock Channel
97.3 W247AD Roanoke/98.5 W253BT Madison Heights/WXLK-HD2 Roanoke/WVBE-HD2
Lynchburg.

Mel Wheeler Inc. filed to purchase WZZU from WVJT Inc. in March for
$330,000.