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Even the best computer programs have occasional upgrades to fix a few bugs; the same goes for radio and podcast programs. Here are five small but significant upgrades to consider for your show. [...]

In the late-80s, Mark St. John (Leighton Group Director of Programming) and I collaborated to build a new morning show for I95 Birmingham. We had a fun and lively dinner with two talents meeting [...]

Last week in Atlanta, I was coaching a team on the importance of starting a show, speech or presentation with an immediate knockout punch. A military veteran shared his version of the same idea, [...]

Your audience is in a damn big hurry. Consider these recent media headlines and think about what they mean for your radio show or podcast. Shorter hit songs. The average pop song is now 3:33. In [...]

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 [...]

Great production can help image a show’s brand, make benchmarks more memorable, and help pump up excitement. But like any sharp-edged tool, production sometimes does  more harm than good. Here [...]

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 [...]

“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two! Does that sound right? That means to the average person, if you go [...]

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 [...]

When I asked Brian Phillips (President, CMT Networks and previous award winning radio programmer) his perception of radio after being in television for several years, his response surprised me. [...]