Jul 26, 2021 | Radio Business
When I did the morning show at WCXR/Washington in the 1980s, we had an AM sister station, WCPT, that had a terrible signal, got no ratings, and thus made no money for anyone. It merited little attention from management or staff. It ran automated programming around the...
Jul 16, 2021 | Radio Business
Since I did my last show three and a half years ago, I haven’t spent much time listening to radio. But over the last week, there have been occasions when I turned off the podcasts I usually listen to in the car and poked around some local talk and sports...
Feb 18, 2021 | Blog, Radio Business
Throughout my four-decade radio career, I almost always made it a habit, on my way to work, to listen to whoever preceded me. One of the biggest exceptions was Rush Limbaugh, who show aired right before mine on KMOX. I not only detested what he said and stood for, but...
Jan 18, 2021 | Blog, Radio Business
Early in my radio career, I worked for a music station that declared, “Every Monday In January Is Commercial-Free!” How did it manage that? Through the law of supply and demand. Because most big advertisers had spent so much money in the November-December...
Dec 8, 2020 | Radio Business, Television
Forty years ago tonight, millions of Americans learned from Howard Cosell that John Lennon was dead. Cosell made the announcement towards the end of a Dolphins-Patriots game on ABC’s “Monday Night Football” — and I missed it. At the time, I was...
Oct 12, 2020 | Blog, Radio Business
During all my years in broadcasting, there was a rule that commercials for competing companies could not run adjacent to one another in a break (e.g. car dealers couldn’t follow car dealers). Optimally, they wouldn’t even run in the same cluster. If they...
