DAILYBUZZ Powered by Country Aircheck
March 13, 2023, Issue 1
Thought You Should Know
Welcome to the 54th Country Radio Seminar and the 11th year of the CRS Daily Buzz, powered by your friends (and one distant cousin) at Country Aircheck. Recaps of the prior day’s main events and a Day Ahead preview (see page 5) will be delivered via the CRS app, email and in print at the first session each morning. What these pages will cover – and what attendees are about to experience – is a painstakingly curated event unlike any other. As CRB Board Pres. Kurt Johnson explains, “Country radio and the music business are looking for guideposts in changing times. CRS is uniquely positioned to provide tools and knowledge for navigation. Our north star is to present insights and tools that attendees can put into action the next day.” Actionable content is a must, as challenges abound. “Don’t we all have more challenges than ever?” Johnson asks. “Like every industry, music and radio are working harder than ever, making it difficult – but more important than Kurt Johnson ever – to pause, connect, assess and regain perspective. CRS does that extremely well. Every year I hear, ‘I wasn’t going to come, but I am so glad I did!’ That’s the first challenge in planning the seminar. The second is finding ways to top ourselves. We deliver killer content and music discovery at entertaining events every year. That fosters an environment for networking in an organic way. You can’t match that anywhere; it just doesn’t exist. Finding new ways to deliver that is a challenge,
Pre Bird: Sony’s Dylan Marlowe and Megan Moroney gather a crowd at the label’s Pre-RS event in Nashville Sunday evening (3/12). Pictured (l-r) are the label’s Lauren Thomas, iHeart’s Alek Halverson, Moroney, Audacy’s Marci Braun, Marlowe, and the label’s Randy Goodman and Ali O’Connell. but we are definitely up for it.” Read more of Johnson’s thoughts on the future of CRS in Monday night’s Country Aircheck Weekly.
Power Aids
Speaking of networking, for those who don’t find it quite so organic, the March Country Aircheck print edition offers helpful talking points from a wide range of industry pros. Find out who
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