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...
Jul 10, 2023 | Blog, Business, Print, Radio, Television
So here’s a development that shouldn’t surprise: the New York Times – the nation’s newspaper of record – is disbanding its entire sports department, instead counting on its ample, if recently downsized, staff of the recently purchased The Athletic for sports coverage....
May 31, 2023 | Radio, Uncategorized
When I was in high school, I had an incredibly obnoxious government teacher who, whenever a student made an accurate, but largely meaningless, point, would sarcastically yell out, “Whoop de doo!” I wish I could remember his name because I keep hearing his voice in my...
Oct 17, 2022 | Blog, Core Principles, Radio, Talent, Uncategorized
The signature bit of my radio career – one that built a 20-year morning show and was nationally syndicated – started with this phrase, a mocking of “adult” stories: I never thought this would happen to me. And considering that I’ve spent the vast majority of my radio...
Mar 20, 2019 | Blog, Music, Print, Radio
I don’t know Bob Lefsetz, but I wish I did, especially after reading this encomium from his excellent blog. It’s about the passing of an artist who you almost certainly never heard of named John Kilzer. (If you’re wondering how obscure John Kilzer...
