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Radio is the only entertainment medium that emphasizes prizes over programming. Games are more entertaining content than giveaways. Giveaways are a promotion and an interruption in content. [...]

Programmers and talent coaches often focus their feedback on execution fundamentals, missing the bigger issues of what could make an emotional impact with listeners. I’m guilty of this, too. [...]

Many high achievers in sports, business, and entertainment, such as Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, and Serena Williams, use mental visualization to enhance their performance and achieve success. The [...]

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 [...]

Jimmy Fallon says he spent years chasing a dream that wasn’t his. After his first stint at SNL, his goal was to become a movie star. He made two movies that bombed. Then he had a realization. “I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last week’s blog on contesting drew a polarized response. We are not saying abandon contests; we advise radio stations to avoid designated caller and text contests that only engage the small [...]

A young El Paso woman wrote to me about her first radio job. “I want to give it my all,” she said and asked my advice on what to read, learn and study. It has been 39 years since I stood where [...]