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No Diggedy, No Route: Riser House's Meghan Patrick with KTOM/Monterey & KHGE/Fresno’s Sam Diggedy and wife Vanessa at the Chicago stop of her Golden Child Tour.

Visitation Writes: MCA's Vince Gill (top) and Average Joes' Bryan Martin visit Big D & Bubba. Pictured (top, l-r) Gill, Derek “Big D” Haskins and Sean “Bubba” Powell; (bottom, l-r) Martin, Haskins, the show's Jessica "Carsen" Humphreville and Powell.

It’s Ben Awhile: Stone Country's Ben Gallaher with WUBE/Cincinnati's Grover Collins (top) and WWKA/Orlando’s Steve Stewart and Melissa Quinones.

Grand 'Ol Red: Wheelhouse's Blake Shelton with his label team at Ronnie Milsap's 50th Opry anniversary. Pictured (l-r) are the label's Shelley Hargis, Gwen Stefani, the label's Peter Strickland, Shelton and the label's JoJamie Hahr and Ken Tucker.

Walk The Liner: Mercury's Jacob Hackworth commemorates his first station visit with WSOC/Charlotte's Cameron Moore (top) and his first radio liners for WKKT/Charlotte's Ashley Wilson and Graham Bunn (bottom).

BIG Time: Nash. Harbor's Greylan James (c) with WPGB/Pittsburgh’s Dan Quindlen, Travis Marzina, Mike Kasper and Joe Seaman (l-r) at the station's Next BIG Thing.

Top Stories

January CDM Ratings

Rate And Hook: Here are select Nielsen Audio Continuous Diary Measurement (CDM) ratings for January 2026 (three-month rolling average, 10/16/25-2/4/26) compared with November and December. Ranks (in parentheses) are among subscribers. Unless otherwise noted, all figures are Persons 12+, Monday-Sunday, 6am-midnight.

Columbia, SC (Market 89)	WCOS iHeartMedia 6.3 (3) - 7.5 (2) - 6.8 (2)
Little Rock, AR (94)	KSSN iHeartMedia 7.2 (4) - 7.6 (2) - 6.6 (2) KMJX iHeartMedia Cl. Country 3.1 (10) - 3.0 (5) - 2.5 (5t)
Springfield, MA (102)	WRNX iHeartMedia 4.7 (4) - 4.2 (4) - 4.3 (4)
Toledo, OH (108)	WCKY iHeartMedia Classic Country 1.3 (12) - 1.3 (8) - 1.2 (7) WKKO Cumulus 8.6 (2) - N/A - N/A Does not subscribe.

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SVPP RJ Meacham To Leave Curb

Hot Air: No official word, but Curb Records SVP/Promotion RJ Meacham is stepping down at the end of the month as he pursues a new venture. He is expected to continue to consult the label, which plans to announce updates to its promotion department leadership structure next week. Meacham joined Curb for a second time in 2016, and rose from National Dir./Promotion & Chart Strategy to VP two years later and to SVP in 2021 (Breaking News 1/18/21). Prior stops include Monument/Sony, Curb/Asylum, BNA and Columbia. His first stint with Curb was from 2004-07.

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The Year End Print Special

featuring:
The Year In Music:
Morgan, Ella & More

CMA Radio Winners
Recap The Week

Label Of The Year
Big Loud Turns 10

BMG's Jon Loba:
The Interview

The 2026 Grammy
Voter's Guide
A quick reference guide to the 2026 Grammy Nominees

Inside This Issue:

Exstream: What Is Mainstream Country?

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Survey Says: NuVoodoo Research