Finding Your Voice Can Be A Team Effort
“A programmer needs to empower both hosts and producers to express themselves in ways that benefit the show.”
Programming
Rush Limbaugh’s Style of News Talk Opened The Door For Sports Talk
“If you are building a brand that is bigger than the format or even the medium, it is brilliant. It turns you, and you alone, into the format. That is awesome for you. It’s not so awesome for the format.”
4 Lessons In 5 States Sports Radio Should Learn From The Election
“Let’s focus only on how the votes shook out from the winning side’s point of view, because every victory in every walk of life happens for a reason.”
Take A Deep Breath And Make A Plan
“November 4 could be one of those times that your role as a voice in the community becomes more important than your role as an entertainer.”
What Can Sports Radio Learn From Run The Jewels?
“There’s a lesson to be learned from this for hosts and programmers alike.”
It’s Time To Plan For Sports’ Worst Case Scenarios
“George Floyd’s murder, the subsequent protests, election news, and John Bolton’s book may have all knocked Covid-19 off the front page at times, but it is still very much with us.”
Living This Moment In History As A PD
“We view these next several weeks and months as an opportunity to strengthen our relationship with listeners and followers.”
John Mamola Needs Some Competition
“It’s a different sports market when you come from such a die-hard city where people are raised and their dads were raised to root for certain teams. You just don’t have that down here.”
Everything They Hear Is Programming
“No PD hears every segment of every show, but certainly somebody who works for the station hears a mistake, a bad microphone, an incorrect score, a poor-sounding commercial or dead air.”
What Can Weezer Teach Sports Radio?
“If you want to grow your audience you have to evolve. Even the stuff you have done well your whole career cannot sound in 2019 the way it did in 1995.”