‘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

Jun 10 | This week in 1973

#1 at KUPD/Phoenix: “Right Place, Wrong Time” by Dr. John, The Night Tripper. A line from this song gave Emerson, Lake & Palmer the title to their Brain Salad Surgery album later that year. (Another memorable phrase: “refried confusion.”) Dr.… Continue reading