When doing Hot Hits back in the day for Mike Joseph, at boot camp he always stayed in our face about each live break being referred to as “a relate”.  He never called them a break or whatever… only “a relate”.  Obviously, that meant whatever we said had damn sure better relate to the target [...]

OK, so we all are embracing new ways to expose new music and make it available for purchase at a time and in a way most convenient for the music fan.  I’m impressed that some of the oldest school companies on Earth are really getting creative in deploying assets to expose and monetize those exposures. [...]

Been listening to a lot of local radio and noticing that format basics are no longer required and, in fact, are almost a luxury now?  
The simplest radio 101 communication fundamentals just don’t fit into the schedule of announcers voice tracking way too many stations at once, and there just isn’t time to be aware [...]

Our radio industry seems to have had the passion squeezed completely out of it as the commercial investment companies have squeezed into it.  Why did the investors show up in the first place?  Because the product people had created such compelling entertainment that our margins were topping 50 and 60 percent.  So who wouldn’t want [...]