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...
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....
Feb 5, 2023 | Blog, Business, Core Principles, Podcasting, Uncategorized
20+ years ago, the great Jack Trout wrote a book called “Differentiate Or Die: Survival In Our Era Of Killer Competition.” Six years after his passing, the competition ain’t getting any less killer. In other news, podcasting is, apparently, passéing...
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...
Jan 8, 2019 | Advertising, Blog, Business, Podcasting, Radio, Television, Uncategorized
Welcome to the new year! Oh, and since we’re less than 365 days away from a year of lame 20/20 references, I thought you and I should get the pun party started early while taking a look at where we’re at in The Jetsons Future. My radio friends will enjoy...
