While there are a handful of veteran on-air talent who actually want to be airchecked, the vast majority of them do not. That’s partly because they’ve been doing this long enough that they think aircheck sessions are no longer necessary,…

If you’re a regular reader of my blogs you know that I’m a huge proponent of live and local radio. Because, as someone who’s been in radio for a long time, I understand that for radio to thrive at the…

As a consultant and life-long radio guy I’ve worked with lots of great and accomplished radio people during my broadcasting career. Over the years I couldn’t help but notice how many of those successful radio people had lots of things…

To outsiders looking in radio is one of the most fun jobs anyone can be lucky enough to have. Getting paid to talk into a microphone and play music, sign me up! But, that’s like watching a cop show and…

When we all started on-air one of the first pieces of constructive criticism we received likely contained these two words, ‘tight’ and ‘bright’. I know I heard it quite a bit over the years because I have a low voice…

While the housing market continues to thrive despite high interest rates, commercial real estate hasn’t bounced back since the pandemic. The national commercial vacancy rate is 18.3%, an increase of 160 basis points year-over-year. That year-over-year number has risen…

Over the past couple of weeks my family and I have been within twenty miles of three different tornados. Two here at our home in DFW and one while traveling to a wedding in Georgetown, Texas. The last was definitely…

Because I was born into the business I’ve been involved with radio since the 1980s and my father goes back even further. For as long as either of us can remember radio has been doing their remotes essentially the same…

The creator economy is here to stay and growing exponentially. It’s currently a $250 billion industry worldwide and that number is expected to grow to $480 billion a year by 2027. Yet, most radio people fluctuate between mild interest…

For at least the past decade of coaching on-air talent, one of my go to pieces of advice for creating good content breaks on air is this:

Know how you’re getting in and how you’re getting out.

So, I was…