Easily 90% of the morning shows I’ve worked with over the past decade are live from 6am to 9am and voicetracked from 9am to 10am. Which is understandable. With everyone wearing multiple hats it’s hard for stations to justify any…

Last week at TAB I sat in a session with Xperi’s Juan Galdamez entitled “Dayparts & Dashboards: Navigating Radio’s Big Data Moment”. In the session Juan shared a peek behind the curtain to show us some insights they are getting…

I should start out by making it clear that I’m not an unbiased observer of this situation. I’ve been a Cowboys fan my entire life, and I have a special place in my heart for Tony Romo because I think…

In many markets there is a group creating better multi-platform content than any local media company, local churches. Why have churches leap-frogged local media in many markets? A) During Covid they adapted out of necessity when people couldn’t attend in…

I’ve been there so I know how monotonous it can easily get when you do the same shift on the same station day after day for years. Talking into and out of many of the same tunes thousands of times…

With tech advances and the many ways radio can now connect with our audiences, its easy to overlook something we’ve been able to do for a long time. Maybe that’s why so many radio stations don’t send out weekly email…

One of the things we’ve historically done in radio that never sat well with me is how we often identify someone within our groups that excels in one area and we make them the go to person for that. I’m…

With round after round of radio layoffs at the bigger groups I’ve been thinking a lot about radio people transitioning into other industries. The big argument I always make to both radio people looking to work outside of the industry…

According to a survey of radio managers from a few years ago conducted by Borrell Associates for RAB, 73% of broadcast radio stations have created a podcast. That’s a little higher than the results we’ve gotten when we asked similar…

As much as it pains me to even think about the NBA right now after my beloved Spurs broke my heart in the finals, the series reminded me of just how good a show Inside the NBA continues to be…