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Legendary investor Warren Buffet once said, “No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” A new [...]

Listeners form an emotional bond with on-air hosts, and when a show is successful, it feels much the same as an in-person connection.  An early step in deep relationships is learning a name. [...]

We often encounter talented team shows with high dysfunction when the mics are off. Some can pull it off and sound cohesive on-air, and with others, it becomes noticeable to the audience. Neither [...]

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 [...]

Tis’ the season to review the passing year and form a vision for the new one. This checklist will help you clean up unaddressed issues and come roaring out of the gate in 2023. MANAGEMENT [...]

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 [...]

Successful shows and podcasts today are usually ensemble casts; A team of two or more strong players contributing equally. The quarterback host makes space for co-hosts. [...]

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 [...]

There are no hard and fast rules for mic order on radio shows. Who talks first, second, third, etc.? There are highly successful shows with a fixed mic order AND there are highly successful shows [...]

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 [...]