The political advertising spend is not happening for conservative talk radio where I live in Hamilton County, Ohio. Oh, you don’t know about Hamilton County in conservative southwestern Ohio? You may know it as Cincinnati. It’s the conservative Ohio county that voted President Barack Obama into office twice, swinging the entire state to him…
No way. It can’t be. Radio stations resorting to actually faking callers to gin up topics and make the programming (dare I say) entertaining? Never would have thought of that one. Sports talk radio in Philadelphia is in bunker mode because “Dwayne from Swedesboro,” a regular “caller” to WPEN-FM’s Mike Missanelli show was actually station…
You will live a lifetime during a dog’s life. Since a dog’s life span doesn’t match that of ours, it must be nature’s way of making sure we understand how precious each day of our human life is. 15 years is a long time even for humans. In that time a person transforms. By the time…
Bob Pittman, the head of iHeart Media, said this when announcing the company’s name change from Clear Channel Media + Entertainment. I can’t imagine former Clear Channel CEO Randy Michaels ever saying something like this. Ouch. It’s going on three years since the Federal Communication Commission (F.C.C.) announced plans for “AM Revitalization.” Then, late last year, the…
The immutable “Rule #1 – It’s about ratings and revenue.” If you don’t accept this, you’re doomed. Each fall, the big media companies go through budgeting for the new year. The companies look to see who they can fire even at their successful stations. A standard exercise is being asked to “rank” employees. Thinking managers…
You either watched it live on CBS, were there or you saw and read about the rowdy Steelers-Bengals NFL Wildcard Playoff game later. The sad thing is Cincinnati, the well-mannered “northern most southern city” in America, showed its seamy underbelly to the nation this past weekend. Yes, we can debate the two thug dumbasses who…
A lot can be learned from data and tracking it. For example, in radio and television, there are Nielsen ratings. You analyze ratings by the week, month or over a year to develop and see a trend. Is the station or program going up or down? Trending up is good. Trending down is bad. One…
Mark Twain, the legendary American writer and humorist said, “Buy land, they’re not making anymore.” History has shown the wealthiest in the world today and throughout history gained significant wealth by acquiring land. The world’s royalty have wealth because of large land holdings. Many commoners today and in history gained and held their wealth through…
Days before Jim Scott announced his retirement my telephone rang. On the other end of the telephone was that friendly and commanding voice. “Darryl! It’s Jim Scott!” That’s the way his calls always began. He called to tell me he was retiring and wanted me to know before I found out through others. We spoke…
Newspaper media critics and the radio and television personalities they cover have always had an interesting interaction. On one hand, those in radio and television want the free publicity given to them by these critics. But, when a story doesn’t meet to their satisfaction those radio and television personalities are the first to point the…
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