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Today’s audiences are quickly moving away from traditional over-the-air broadcasting towards streaming and on-demand. Here are a couple of recent headlines. On-Demand Audio Passes Linear Audio [...]

Can one piece of advice change your life? I remember exactly where was I standing in the second-floor hallway at Dick Broadcasting in Greensboro when one sentence of wisdom from Randy Lane set my [...]

FOX Sports commentator and soccer legend Carli Lloyd kicked a hornets nest talking openly about her former teammates on the US Women’s National Team in the 2023 Women’s World Cup. “Uninspiring, [...]

Have you ever seen an amateur try to do the work of an expert? Imagine a surgeon inviting an average person to try their hand with a scalpel, or a World Cup soccer team bringing a fan down to the [...]

I recently took a Lyft in San Francisco and the radio was on in the car. For the whole drive, the on-air host talked about one thing and one thing only: Disneyland. Between songs it was 40+ [...]

Could you survive in the wilderness? The How Stuff Works podcast recently featured a survival skills quiz, with questions like: “What’s the single most important thing you need to survive [...]

A surprising fact from ratings data: The percentage of your station’s afternoon/evening audience that has never listened to your morning programming is high. Why? One major reason is you haven’t [...]

Your show can have a stronger emotional impact using practices from motion pictures, theatre, stand-up comedy and improvisation. After all, radio when done well is part of the entertainment [...]

“It’s your ear more than your eye,” said CBS 60 Minutes creator, the late Don Hewitt. Broadcasters sometimes overlook the importance of audio. In television, what audiences hear is more important [...]

Reaching your goals, feeling confident and finding success as a media professional depends more on mindset than most people realize. According to Merriam-Webster, mindset is “a [...]