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A&O is proud to support the work of the HD Radio Broadcast Marketing Group in developing the HD Radio Playbook.

Things A&O Are Talking About Right Now...

 

Jaye:  Let's Only Call Them "Labels" After They Last Four Years
Mike:  Your Performance vs. Your Plan

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(click to download pdf) KUPL, Portland, PD, John Paul's "A Dozen Ways To Be a Better Personality"

THE CREATIVE ART OF VOICE TRACKING

B-104.7, Syracuse's Amber Taylor's tips and hints to make you a voice tracking star, plus A&O forms for all air personalities, to help hone and critique your work.  Would you like to hear if Amber practices what she preaches?  CLICK to hear a couple minutes (scoped mp3) of her.

A&O is proud to be a member of "The McVay Media Advisors' Alliance." That gives A&O access to even more resources. And, what do you get out of it?  How about a quick look at the June '08 McVay Media Monthly Memo?  New! CLICK (downloads pdf file) to read Page Nienaber on how to hit a lifestyle home run with every promotion and Mike McVay on being "ReMOOarkable."

ARE YOU A BRAND TALENT OR A BLAND TALENT?
Are you more than a 'name' on your airwaves? Mike O'Malley points out the five points of differentiation that separates bland from brand.

2008 Budget Planner

Sales Idea from the New York Yankees

MAKING YOUR REMOTES SIZZLE
A complete set of guidelines for your station's remote appearances.

MANAGING YOUR PROMOTIONAL CALENDAR:
Your guide to getting the right things done...on time!

TARGETING TIP:
(click to download the pdf) Jaye Albright reveals a new way to use direct marketing and your loyal listener database.

SHOW ME THE LOVE
The brand is dead, long live the Lovemark.

THE PEOPLE'S MARKETING
Introducing the bottom-up approach of having consumers, not corporations, create the advertising.

BUILDING YOUR BUZZ
Mercury Radio Research's Mark Ramsey has a step by step plan for creating BUZZ for your station at CRS-35.  Here's his handout (pdf) on how to build a buzz plan.


SERVING TWO SETS OF CUSTOMERS
A guide to mediating disputes that may arise in the quest for both ratings and revenue.
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Albright & O'Malley at Canadian Music Week #25, in Toronto:  We were delighted to be a part of the first-ever Promotional Summit.

GETTING ON THE BRAND WAGON
Jaye Albright's Radio and Records article
"A successful brand takes years to build but can be lost very quickly."

THEN, AFTER THE BOOK, use these techniques to do a thorough review of what happened and why.

There's ALWAYS 'the next book' just around the corner.  Are you ready?  Be certain by using our complete PRE-BOOK CHECKLIST (pdf)

A&O believes in powerful prep tools like Interprep and Radio-Online.  'The best content wins;' so we subscribe to them as value-added for all of our client air personalities!

LATEST UPDATES:

jaye inducted in Country Radio Hall of Fame
Jaye Albright inducted into the Country Radio Hall of Fame
. Click to see photos from her induction ceremony.

True Talent Development (click for the pdf of   A&O's Conclave 2008 handout).

Katz Radio:  Country Format Again Ranks #1 (click to see the latest national stats in a two page Word.doc)

A&O At The R&R Convention, Charlotte: "2007's Best Ten Minutes Of Country Radio" (pdf)

A&O at CCMA, Regina:
For clients and members of the CCMA only (pdf)
Canada Country Roadmap
Canadians vs Americans - comparisons of testing on 654 gold titles


Bonneville/Cincinnati OM for WUBE/WYGY and PD for WKRQ Patti Marshall coined the phrase "Open Range Country" and then A&O worked with her terrific team and Coleman Research to create a music mix to match. Read all about it here (pdf).

R&R's R. J. Curtis reports on A&O's second annual ListenerSurvey.com gold test, involving 7,000 country radio listeners across North America

A&O clients Lincoln Financial Media/San Diego GM Darrel Goodin and KSON PD John Marks reveal to R&R how important it is to know WHY you are doing a promotion

TEN MISTAKES EVEN THE BEST PD's MAKE

Country Radio Get$ A Compliment

Avoiding TV's Rerun Blues

Are Radio's Research Tools Antiquated?

CLIENT EXCLUSIVE MATERIALS:

CMA CloseUp:  The State Of Country - 2008.  (click for pdf) Country Music Association Executive Officer Tammy Genovese and her team recap in detail the last year for our format and outline the challenges and opportunities ahead (print out for your sales department!)

ARBITRON:
“Arrogant?” Or, Well-Meaning Change Agent That Knows ‘What’s Best’ For All Of Us?

A Report on the 2006 Arbitron Consultant Fly-In

IT'S ALL BRIGHT ABOUT COUNTRY
Read Mike Kinosian's interview with Jaye Albright from Inside Radio.


Albright & O'Malley is proud to support the mentoring efforts of the group "Mentoring And Inspiring Women."  Whether you are male or female, click here to see what Radio's MIW are doing.  You will find great advice, revealing interviews and helpful success tips!

A&O are active in and are members of the National Association of Broadcasters, the Country Music Association, the Canadian Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music, Country Radio Broadcasters/Country Radio Seminar and strongly encourage you to get involved with these great organizations as well.

Mike O'Malley 9 Desmet Avenue, Milltown, NJ 08850 Jaye Albright 7699 Fletcher Bay Rd NE, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110