jason1589 said:I am so happy Cumulus added I Need Your Love by Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding!
They are a little late. ClearChannel was playing that song as far back as February.
jason1589 said:I am so happy Cumulus added I Need Your Love by Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding!
atlantaboy said:Let's see what happens when John Kilgo takes over...
jason1589 said:I wonder when exactly he's taking over.
editthis said:Once again I got a trade email this morning that once again teases the MAJOR CUMULUS EVENT (ie layoffs and the nationalization of formats) will be happening sometime before the 4th of July.
marconis gallbladder said:jason1589 said:I wonder when exactly he's taking over.
Two weeks ago.
editthis said:Once again I got a trade email this morning that once again teases the MAJOR CUMULUS EVENT (ie layoffs and the nationalization of formats) will be happening sometime before the 4th of July.
Jerry's wrong more than he's right...but with Cumulus, you never really know. Time will tell.
bluestar4 said:I'm gonna go out on a limb by saying Cumulus has gotten better recently. Right now, every song in the Top 30 on Mediabase is being played on at least one Cumulus stations (not counting KKMG and WHTS). It's gotten to the point where there is some diversity between the stations. KLAL is playing Crazy Kids by Ke$ha, which many other Cumulus stations have yet to play, as well as some stations spinning Gone, Gone, Gone by Phillip Phillips, and some playing Chloe by Emblem3. Hopefully, this trend continues and WPRO-FM in Providence doesn't sound like KLIF in Dallas.
atlantaboy said:bluestar4 said:I'm gonna go out on a limb by saying Cumulus has gotten better recently. Right now, every song in the Top 30 on Mediabase is being played on at least one Cumulus stations (not counting KKMG and WHTS). It's gotten to the point where there is some diversity between the stations. KLAL is playing Crazy Kids by Ke$ha, which many other Cumulus stations have yet to play, as well as some stations spinning Gone, Gone, Gone by Phillip Phillips, and some playing Chloe by Emblem3. Hopefully, this trend continues and WPRO-FM in Providence doesn't sound like KLIF in Dallas.
There were major shakeups this week in the Pro-FM playlist - many currents got boosted up 20+ spins, while four older songs got pulled from power straight to the bottom
http://www.allaccess.com/mediabase/q/report/playlist/station/WPRO-FM
I still don't see anything extra-progressive, like Pro-FM used to do under Citadel, but it's definitely better than it was a couple weeks ago
Cumulus has definitely gotten better with adds. My Top 40 station, WNTQ, started playing "Holy Grail" by Jay-Z this week, which is pretty weird considering it's now owned by Cumulus and used to play no-rap edits of songs when Citadel owned them. Some other Cumulus stations have started playing Taylor Swift's new song already and I know my station started playing the new JT song either Friday or Saturday. Nice to see they're allowing new music adds when they're fresh, at least with the more familiar artists.bchristi said:Cumulus lately has been getting better about new adds in my opinion. Their ratio of currents to recurrents/gold is still way out of whack, at least on KKWD. My estimate from listening is that less than 50% of the playlist is current, and they still play a lot of dated hip-hop from the early 2000s. It's time to take anything from farther back than five years out of regular rotation and take anything farther back than a year out of power rotation if they are going to have the slogan "All The Hits." I don't see Cumulus changing though as everything is programmed to the least common denominator, being rural Southern towns.