Feb 5, 2024 | Blog, Business, Movies, Radio, Uncategorized
Doctors don’t save patients in cardiac arrest by treating an unrelated skin rash. Radio, currently somewhere between serious and critical condition, is busy trying to treat its problems with calamine lotion. (So why did the headline borrow from print to write about...
Aug 6, 2023 | Business, Football, Movies, Music, Print, Radio, Television, Uncategorized
An organization founded 108 years ago that has continued to thrive with a documented record of massively greater success than any of its competitors just imploded. Not-so-shocking development for you: there are lessons for every business vertical, particularly media...
Sep 22, 2018 | Core Principles, Movies, Podcasting, Radio, Talent, Television, Uncategorized
It’s funny how timing works. I’ve spent a lot of time lately discussing the “it” factor in a few different places, and up popped Steve Reynolds’ excellent thoughts on the subject on the Jacobs Media blog. I want to talk to you about it...
Oct 17, 2017 | Core Principles, Movies, Radio, Talent, Television, Uncategorized
Forgive me, but I’m about to get very personal with you. I’ll save the extremely personal stuff for the end, but first, as with almost everything else, I’m going to use my personal feelings to talk about something I love: showbiz. A family member was...
Jul 8, 2017 | Business, Core Principles, Movies, Print, Radio, Television, Uncategorized
One of the more remarkable things I’ve read lately is a piece that showed up in the New York Times last week in which Dean Baquet, the Times’ Executive Editor, answers questions from readers about changes to the way The Gray Lady is restructuring her...
Mar 7, 2017 | Movies, Radio, Talent, Television, Uncategorized
A friend of mine sent me this incredibly entertaining Rolling Stone piece called “The Slow Death of the Great Wrestling Promo”. You should read it. Of course, you didn’t take your mother’s advice to eat your vegetables when you were growing up,...