Don Imus left us on 27 December; in the last hours of the last week of the last “teens.” Like a handful of public personalities, there was no indifference about […]
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Read more →In late 2007 global companies were watching a developing crisis. Sitting in a hotel room in Hawaii ostensibly on a family vacation, the cold arithmetic was undeniable. Howard Schultz found […]
Read more →I’m boarding my Delta flight out of Atlanta, heading home from a mission. I’m putting stuff away in 4-D when a shadow blocks the sunlight pouring through the cabin windows. […]
Read more →Life is a forced march through a series of career and family eras. As opposed to a continuous unbroken chain of events, for most of us, it’s a sine-wave of […]
Read more →It’s ironic; in their early business plan Sirius and XM pitched everything on one toss: a zillion channels of music and talk show fulfillment. Circa 2000 their very early vision […]
Read more →If you knew you had a one-in-three chance of succeeding with a competitive attack, would you still launch it? There are no empirical formulas for calculating the percentage of how […]
Read more →“It would be wrong to play a very popular song if it didn’t fit the station’s brand. You have to weigh long-term decline against a short term ratings gain.” Jon Coleman […]
Read more →If you missed the NAB you missed a typically strong “Dallas conference;” not simply the official agenda but those off-moments where people find commonality, many recognizing a resurgence of energy […]
Read more →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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