‘K-E-Z’ dominates, even without holiday hits

| RADIO | “K-E-Z” was again the most popular station in metro Phoenix, despite losing more than half of its audience share since the end of its all-Christmas music programming. As a result, “K-E-Z” ‘s inflated holiday audience was redistributed… Continue reading

Ratings: KOOL rebounds but ‘K-E-Z’ wins Christmas battle

| RADIO | Thanks to its all-Christmas music programming, “K-E-Z,” as usual, blew away the competition during Nielsen Audio’s “Holiday” ratings period. Nielsen’s ratings year is divided into 13 four-week periods, so the 13th “month” is called “Holiday” and covered… Continue reading

Ratings: Santa kind to ‘K-E-Z’ while KOOL gets lump of coal

| RADIO | Classic hits KOOL’s experiment to challenge the annual Christmastime dominance of “K-E-Z” fell flat in the first of two ratings periods that reflected the stations’ wall-to-wall holiday music programming. According to the latest Nielsen Audio’s ratings for… Continue reading

Dec 23 | This week in 1973

#1 at KUPD/Phoenix: “Rock On” by David Essex, a very cool record that still sounds cool today. It appeared on the soundtrack to a film from earlier in the year titled That’ll Be The Day, which also starred Essex as… Continue reading

Sep 09 | This week in 1972

#1 at KUPD/Phoenix: “Happy” by the Rolling Stones, leaping from #8 last week. It’s the second single (following “Tumbling Dice“) from the #4 album, Exile On Main Street, and features a rare lead vocal by Keith Richards. Michael Jackson, who… Continue reading