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Determining How Long It Will Take for a Radio Show to Succeed (and How Long...
By Bill McMahon The Authentic Personality CEO EAGLE, Idaho — There are lots of variables to think about. Here are some questions to consider in order to come up with a realistic answer: Let’s start...
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What Radio Personalities Want and Need Most from a Coach
By Bill McMahon The Authentic Personality CEO EAGLE, Idaho — It’s not easy being a radio personality. They work in relative isolation far from their listeners. They can’t see or hear them. Most radio...
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Pursuing Truth Amid Civil Unrest
By Howard B. Price ABC Television Network Director, Business Continuity NEW YORK — It’s happened again…outrage unleashed on the streets of a major American city following a controversial police...
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How to Cover Breaking News at the Worst Possible Time
By Howard B. Price ABC Television Network Director, Business Continuity NEW YORK — Last night’s horrific derailment of an Amtrak Northeast Regional train just north of Philadelphia was an object...
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Turn Digital Disappointment into Direct Success
By Holland Cooke Radio Consultant BLOCK ISLAND, RI — This past month, I presented at two state broadcasters’ association conventions: Illinois and Iowa. My topics: “The Six Most-Dreaded Words in...
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Price: Now, It’s Personal
By Howard B. Price ABC Television Network Director, Business Continuity NEW YORK — The assassination – yes, it was an assassination — of WDBJ-TV, Roanoke, Virginia reporter Alison Parker and her...
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Typical Is Your Enemy
By Holland Cooke Radio Consultant BLOCK ISLAND, RI — In 1976 or 1986 or 1996, he would’ve cranked it up. Here in the future, “Hotel California” comes on and the listener might hit scan. Or,...
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Where Will You Be When the Lights Go Out?
By Howard B. Price ABC Television Network Director, Business Continuity NEW YORK — As I write this, the New York sun will give way to dusk – and at 5:27 pm ET, New York will mark exactly 50 years...
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How Did Your Station Respond to France’s 9/11?
By Howard B. Price ABC Television Network Director, Business Continuity NEW YORK — So what was on YOUR station’s air when news broke of the horrific, coordinated attacks on six Paris locations, where...
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It’s Not IF Anymore…But WHEN
By Howard B. Price ABC Television Network Director, Business Continuity NEW YORK — At the height of Wednesday’s horrific mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calilfornia, I went online to sample the...
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Where’s the Line Between Giving Threatmongers What They Want…And Citizens...
By Howard B. Price ABC Television Network Director, Business Continuity NEW YORK — The nation’s second largest school district was shut down Tuesday by a terroristic threat. Several other school...
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When Your Station IS the News
By Howard B. Price ABC Television Network Director, Business Continuity NEW YORK — It’s been an interesting couple of years for TV stations in Baltimore – to say the least. About two years ago, a...
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Your Radio Station Is in Danger of Being Hacked
By Steven J.J. Weisman RadioInfo Legal Editor BOSTON — Radio and television stations are prime targets for hackers with a myriad of different motivations. Some hackers may simply be looking to hack...
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Social Media: Like Your Friends
By Holland Cooke Media Consultant BLOCK ISLAND — Social media tools can be extremely valuable to broadcasters who don’t just use them to…broadcast. At the recent NAB/RAB Radio Show in Nashville,...
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Turn Up the Volume When You Can’t Hear the Sound of Change
By Danielle Lin, C.N. The Danielle Lin Show Host SALT LAKE CITY — The state of the radio industry is in grand flux, but for those who have kept their options open, seeing the light through the end of...
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‘Make America Great Again’
By Holland Cooke Media Consultant BLOCK ISLAND, RI — How effective is Donald Trump’s slogan? It crystallized his shoot-from-the-hip spiel well enough that conservatives who were chanting “American...
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The Local Media Company of the Future
By Holland Cooke Media Consultant NASHVILLE — Each year, there’s one session at the NAB/RAB Radio Show I reckon that – alone – was worth the trip. Researcher Gordon Borrell nailed it this year with...
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Social Media: Like Your Friends
By Holland Cooke Media Consultant BLOCK ISLAND — Social media tools can be extremely valuable to broadcasters who don’t just use them to…broadcast. At the recent NAB/RAB Radio Show in Nashville,...
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What Are You Going to Do on Wednesday?
By Waltr Sabo Sabo Media CEO NEW YORK — “Talk radio” is whatever you want it to be. Talk is the only viable, free-form format. Is your current programming delivering the growth and demos you like?...
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Talk Radio’s Dream Come True?
By Holland Cooke Media Consultant NEW YORK — After nearly two years of campaign noise, many Americans were eager “for it to end.” But November 8 was a beginning. And with the manners our parents...
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