May 18, 2016 | Blog, Business, Movies, Radio, Talent, Television
That headline is not a joke. You and I share 60% of our DNA with the product of several flowering plants in the genus Musa. Our DNA is primarily plantain. Now think about this: y’know that schlub you deeply regret having to work with, the one you have nothing in...
Jul 11, 2016 | Blog, Football, Internet, Podcasting, Print, Radio, Television
Storytelling matters everywhere in the media – no matter how “serious” your job is. That said, we tend to forget that storytelling is a matter of degrees: there’s a difference between simply relaying an already-interesting story and painting a...
Jun 1, 2016 | Advertising, Blog, Business, Internet, Print, Radio, Television
The advertising business is finding out what the rest of the media-industrial complex learned long ago: you can’t fight city hall. Or, in Jetsons Future terms, now that content options are somewhere between plentiful and functionally infinite, showbiz is like...
May 24, 2016 | Blog, Podcasting, Talent
Because I have such a unique background – a couple decades leading radio stations and eight years as an attorney – I get asked about podcasting a lot, and I’ve come to some realizations. If you’re a lawyer – or if you’re a vendor...
Apr 25, 2016 | Blog, Business, Radio, Talent, Uncategorized
As entertainment professionals, we tell stories all the time. We spend most of our time thinking about the stories we’re going to tell to our fans, to the people who watch, listen to, or read the stories we create. We tend to spend less time thinking about all...
Mar 14, 2016 | Blog, Business, Core Principles, Football, Movies, Radio, Talent, Television
In entertainment, we like to talk about how we make “content”, and technically, that’s what we do. After all, content is a business word, and we’re in show business. The problem is that “content” is a totally non-emotional word, and...
