It’s all very exciting. Each fall, old white guys in ill fitting suits, wrinkled button down collar shirts, unpolished shoes and ties fashionable in 1986, American radio broadcasters if you will, gather in a different city to discuss what’s right and wrong with the radio industry, discuss theories, drink a few beers and return home…
AM radio, the senior broadcast band, no longer has the luxury of time to correct its problems, if those problems can be corrected at all. This week there’s an assembly of “radio people” in Atlanta. The annual NAB/RAB Fall Radio Show, where station owners get to have free drinks on the vendors gathered trying to…
I looked. Then I looked again. I rubbed my eyes. And looked a third time. Is this a parody from The Onion? Am I really reading this correctly? No. This isn’t from Talkers, the industry trade publication’s archives in 1965. This is from Talkers, the industry trade publication in August 2014! To quote the boxed…
A few years ago, the Ed Schultz radio show was broadcast on a station I managed in Cincinnati. The station and Ed had few listeners and rumors soon hit the streets the station would be changing format. I forgot what eventually caused the outburst from Ed, but he proceeded to do almost an entire hour…
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