College radio station shows pros how to do it.(Suburban Living)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December, 2002

Byline: Ted Cox What does it say that my 2002 Radio Station of the Year can't even be heard over most of the Chicago area - especially in the suburbs? Obviously, it says what an awful year it was in radio, which continued to consolidate ownership as stations tweaked and twisted an ever-decreasing overall play list to appeal to specifically targeted audiences.

The biggest music-format changes of the year were oldies WJMK 104.3-FM straying into '70s disco, while adult-contemporary WNND 100.3-FM went ever-so-slightly backward to the '80s. WCKG 105.9-FM brought in Kevin Matthews. Otherwise, stations stayed securely in their ruts. As ever, the conglomerate-owned music stations stuck almost exclusively to the product of conglomerate-owned major labels. In the...