Jun 24, 2019 | Blog, Radio Business
Thirty years ago this week, I undertook one of the great adventures of my radio career — broadcasting my morning radio show on WCXR/Washington from Moscow. It was June, 1989, three years after Chernobyl and five months before the Berlin Wall came down. But it...
Mar 14, 2019 | Blog, Radio Business
I’ve mentioned before that I may be the only person in the St. Louis area who couldn’t care less about the Cardinals. While friends of mine closely follow their progress through spring training and know who they traded for or acquired during the off...
Dec 10, 2018 | Radio Business
This weekend marked 9 months since I did my final radio show. I’m asked on a regular basis whether I miss it, and the answer is still no. I’m enjoying the fact that I don’t have to wake up every day and immediately feel the stress of coming up with...
Nov 18, 2018 | Politics, Radio Business, Television
A friend called me Thursday morning and told me to turn on the Charlie Brennan Show on KMOX, a station I haven’t listened to since parting ways with it almost a decade ago. But my friend told me the guest was a broadcaster who I respect enormously, Bob Costas,...
Sep 19, 2018 | Music, Radio Business
Paul McCartney’s “Egypt Station” is the #1 album in the US — without any substantial radio airplay. How? As Fred Jacobs explains, the album came with a brilliant content marketing...
Aug 24, 2018 | Music, Radio Business
I’ve been involved in many great radio promotions over the years. One of the best was The Ticket Upgrade. In the early 1980s, when I was the morning man at WHCN/Hartford, we had a deal with promoters Jim Koplik and Shelly Finkel for the concerts they brought to...
