HBG Media Minute: Christmas 2022 Music Study

With the holiday season well underway, we at Harker Bos Group wanted to put a Christmas spin on this week’s Media Minute. We asked over 500 radio listeners about their favorite Christmas music. To determine their preferred style of Christmas music, we created montages that evoked a certain style of holiday music, be it from […]

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HBG Media Minute: Radio Morning Shows as Podcasts

Podcasts are an increasingly hot commodity as the amount of total podcast listeners in the U.S. is growing at a generous clip.  How do radio stations keep up? In this month’s Harker Bos Media Minute, we wanted to unearth some podcast listening habits of established radio listeners.  In a nationwide study launched in October, we […]

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HBG Media Minute: Topics for Radio Hosts and Personalities

In a recent national radio study conducted Harker Bos Group we asked over 800 radio listeners about their favorite topics for hosts and personalities to feature in daily radio programming. Surveyed listeners were told to rate their interest on a 1-5 scale in a set list of general topics for radio hosts/personalities to discuss on […]

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HBG Media Minute: Radio Presets are Alive and Well

We, at Harker Bos Group, found in a recent study conducted in April 2022 with over 1,000 respondents in 10+ markets, that 87% of radio audiences have preset radio stations programmed into their vehicles.  84% of that audience with presets programmed into their car’s radio have 3 or more presets.  31% have programmed 6 or […]

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HBG Media Minute: Radio Listening Pre-Pandemic vs. Now

In a recent study conducted by Harker Bos Group, we found that 52% of people are listening more to the radio now than they did before the pandemic. Two years on from the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a drastic shift in radio listenership. We, at Harker Bos Group, are pleased to […]

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