Dive into the archives.
- THINKING AHEAD
This is what radio’s supposed to be good at. However, we must be realistic. American broadcast radio stations — the AM-FM steel tower kind — have been facing forward, but looking into a rear-view mirror, since the 1970s. Every programming decision has had to be “researched” — run through a focus group, or based only [...]
- Radio guys, talking trash.
Want to get a feel for how radio people think? Read Sean Ross’s tribute (here) to a now-legendary country station, KPLX Dallas. Sean’s a fine writer, formerly with Billboard, and he’s a radio fan-journalist in the top tier — one of two or three. He now works for one of the major [...]
- Radio guys running newspapers. [Cringe] Make that “ruining.”
Check out Eric Alterman’s piece in The Nation.
- Pandora fans, rejoice. Radio guys: read, weep.
Pandora rocks the iPhone.
- Chicago Trib editors slip away.
I just saw in the New York Times that Ann Marie Lipinski, the Tribune’s editor, is resigning, saying
“…this position is not the fit it once was.”
Hardly surprising, and not the first Trib editor to “ankle.” (Love that word.) Sam Zell, real estate and radio mogul, who bought The Tribune Company earlier this year, [...]
- The Radio Guy Mind
The other day a friend of mine asked me, on behalf of a radio station manager he knows, if I could suggest a “radio news writing consultant.” Now, if you wanted to choose a specialty whose name simply shouts failure, you couldn’t do better than “radio news writing consultant.” I could go on with other [...]
- The History of Radio in One Post
A couple of weeks ago I had the quaint idea to write the history of radio in MarconiDreams blog posts. Watching the business side of American radio huff and puff toward implosion, I’ve decided there really isn’t that much to it. I think I can do it in one post. Here goes:
Heinrich Hertz and others [...]
- Targeting your programming — to the ratings.
I don’t like to get involved in talking about which corporate radio company just bought which existing station, but there’s a message in this one. Bonneville just bought a Los Angeles FM station. The buzz about this purchase surrounds what format the radio company might choose to program on their new station. You can read [...]
