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I recently had a laugh-filled reunion lunch with Jonathon Rush, Gary David, and Gary “Thrills” Mills of iHeart Radio in Columbia, South Carolina. We reminisced about fun times at CHR WNOK in the [...]

As the saying goes, what you focus on grows. How do you maintain focus amidst a hurricane of distractions? What do you focus on, and what do you filter out? Focus is like internet bandwidth. [...]

Randy Lane recently wrote about the one thing all great media presenters have in common: planning. Planning requires discipline, which is defined as “training oneself to do something in a [...]

In a non-pandemic year, movie studios plan their blockbuster film releases for certain calendar dates. For example, the newest James Bond film No Time to Die was scheduled for November 2019, [...]

I once suspected Clint Eastwood of stealing a screenplay I wrote. I later learned that Mr. Eastwood and I had the same idea at the same time, but he acted while I talked myself into doing [...]

If it is your goal to do a podcast, simply whip out your mobile device, open one of the many podcast apps, and press “record.” For many, doing a podcast could be fulfilling for the host, but it [...]

We received positive feedback on my recent article, Updating Your Station Brand, which included ideas like: Promote your star talent at least as much as your music — if not [...]

Years ago, stations would thump their chest about transmitter size. 5000 watts! 50,000 watts! 100,000 watts! Mine is bigger than yours! My first programming job was at WWDM in South [...]

Do you ever feel bad about doing something poorly?Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly because doing it poorly is better than not doing it at all. We want perfection immediately. We avoid [...]

Almost no topic is off-limits in 2021, and talk involving relationships — dating, one-night stands, infidelity, sex — is hot in most radio format and podcast genres. How you talk [...]