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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 [...]

You often hear radio features named Trending Now or Trending Topics with a mix of breaking news, entertainment updates, fads, weird news, and so forth. A trending story benchmark can make your [...]

Reprinted with permission from MediaGigNow.com – with the right job right now for broadcast professionals. Occasionally, broadcasters and podcasters tell me they are anxious about cancel culture. [...]

As a Randy Lane Company client, you will gain access to the largest storehouse of information available anywhere on talent development and performance, personality branding and the creative [...]

The most interesting characters have what we call “skewed opposite” traits. They have opposing endearing characteristics and flaws that make them relatable. Jeff McHugh looks into the [...]

“Podcasting has become the greatest companion medium because you can listen to a podcast and it can be a friend.” That’s a quote from Edison Research Senior VP Tom Webster speaking at the Podcast [...]

In 2014, I wrote about Gordon Borell of Borell Associates making the prediction that half of all AM/FM stations would go dark by 2024. Here in the year 2020, Inside Radio and Precision Trak just [...]

“As a lifelong fan and coach of media personalities, I am sad when talented people shoot their career in the foot.” I wrote an article beginning with those words in 2017. Blending those ideas [...]

Live radio is often at its best in times of crisis. Since 1996, The Randy Lane Company has coached broadcasters through mass shootings, 9/11, hurricanes, fires, and recession. Coronavirus may [...]

If you listen to drive time radio across the US and Canada, you notice that most entertainment segments air before commercials and only a produced station ID or jingle [...]