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Midweek Motivator

The Midweek Motivator – Format Challenges/NAB Week

There’s no place more fitting than Dallas for an NAB; especially in this competitive moment with a lot on the line for someone charged with their station’s success (meaning any […]

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The Midweek Motivator – Complacency

Each Success Only Buys A Ticket To A More Difficult Challenge So many opportunities, so much competition in any field of recognized endeavor ultimately leads us to the proverbial fork in […]

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Building A Franchise

In the heat of the NFL championship run we gain insight as to how winning teams are built. The parallels to Radio are obvious and adaptable if you’re interested. Radio […]

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Biology 101

Living entities either grow or they die. There is no stasis aside from cryogenic suspension. It’s a new year and convention has it we’re supposed to make resolutions, turn the […]

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Flying for the Holidays?

ADG colleagues have flown somewhere around the 250,000 mile mark in 2014. Regrettably none of the miles have been on South Africa’s Kulula Airlines, manned with capable crews replete with […]

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The Brand Cycle

Radio is motion. You can’t freeze the ball (though some programmers seem to get stuck there). If you aren’t gaining listeners you’re losing them. You can’t win without your P-1 […]

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Tragedy, Bravery, November

Around five on the afternoon of 10 November 1975 Captain Bernie Cooper was piloting his gigantic 700 foot cargo carrier Arthur M. Andersen in thirty-foot seas. He was concerned about […]

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Where Exactly Are We?

Ability is what you’re capable of accomplishing. Motivation determines how you approach your capability. Attitude determines how well you’ll do it. But here’s the conflict: Radio is as universal as […]

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Greed Is Stealthy

Self interest is the enemy of all true affection. -Tacitus You’ve probably seen the nineties hit movie Wall Street either in its original run or on the plethora of movie […]

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The Culture of Crewing

You may have missed this coruscating story, tucked away in the back pages of your sports section. We repeat this by request. Internationally the sport of Crew is becoming more […]

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