Rico Colindres is one of those people in the radio industry who I probably should have met by now. In a recent Teams call, we learned we both grew up in San Francisco, have a mutual admiration for the late KMEL legend Rick Chase, and both worked at stations now owned by iHeartMedia, him at … Continue reading Restaurant to Radio: A Conversation With Rico Colindres
Read Full Article »This has been a tough baseball playoff season for New York Mets fans like me. Our team was expected to compete for a World Series championship, but a disappointing first-round loss to the San Diego Padres left us having to wait until next year…again. One person who will be there no matter which teams make … Continue reading Be Like “The New Voice Of Baseball”
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Turn on your local hit music station right now. There’s a good chance you’ll hear a song from the last decade. Sure, there’s consensus that new music is in a rut. (We explained why new music won’t suck forever in our previous post.) While we’ve seen plenty of new music slumps come and go at … Continue reading The Rise of the Superhit
Read Full Article »This past week, we learned legendary marketer Al Ries passed away. Matt Bailey, president of our sister company Integr8 Research, sent an internal email stating simply, “Without his work, we wouldn’t have ours.” How true that is. You can see the influence of Al Ries all over Coleman Insights, including in Tuesdays With Coleman blogs … Continue reading How Al Ries Influenced Coleman Insights
Read Full Article »“It was only one or two meters!!” Whether you’ve experienced poring over data in Media Monitors or visiting Arbitron’s offices in Columbia, Maryland back in the day to hand-sift through diaries (or like me, both), the frustration of radio ratings data inconsistencies is a tale as old as the measurement itself. Generally, ratings tend to … Continue reading Why Did My Radio Station’s Ratings Go Down?
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My wife Jennifer loves to tease me about my affinity for 70s soft rock. The teasing was only amplified after I took her to see Air Supply earlier this summer. Combine this with her seemingly always catching the radio in my car on the Classic Hits station, and you have her running reference, “Your music … Continue reading Why I Admire Panic! At The Disco’s Calculated Risk
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I was certain the first time I met Mike Couchman was a few months ago, at the premier conference for contemporary Christian Radio, Christian Music Broadcasters’ Momentum conference in Orlando. But after listening to my recent appearance on the Sound Off Podcast and hearing about some of my radio stops, Mike recalled that I interviewed … Continue reading Applying Blue Ocean Strategy to Christian Radio
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New music sucks. The experts agree. Legendary programmer Guy Zapoleon, inventor of CHR’s Music Cycle, said it’s the worst doldrums he’s ever seen. Coleman Insights’ Contemporary Music Superstudy found that North America’s favorite songs in 2021 were mostly the same songs they loved most in 2020. Luminate, purveyors of BDS radio, observed that on-demand streaming … Continue reading Why New Music Won’t Suck Forever
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I’m a baseball fan. But as a lifelong San Francisco Giants loyalist, I don’t care one bit about the New York Mets (much to the chagrin of our president/Mets fan Warren Kurtzman, I’m sure). However, ask me which walk-up or walk-out song any Giants player uses, and I can’t tell you. Not even one. On … Continue reading Edwin Diaz, Narco, and Being Memorable
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If you’ve followed coverage of the January 6th Capitol Attack, there’s a good chance you’ve seen Scott MacFarlane. As an investigative reporter for NBC Washington and now as Congressional Correspondent for CBS News, MacFarlane shows up on TV with regularity to provide in-depth detailed reporting. He voraciously ensures his 300,000 Twitter followers are in-the-know and … Continue reading Inclusivity and Local: A Conversation With Scott MacFarlane
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