Jay Mohr is the latest comedian to launch a podcast. He tells The Press of Atlantic City his weekly “Mohr Stories” is different from his stand-up, and a ton of fun. The paper says he’s working on his “virtual brand.” What about you, Spoken-Word-Media-Guy? Guy-who-makes-his-living-by-talking? What are you doing to expand your “virtual brand?” Here’s [...]
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Radio-Info.com programming guru Sean Ross shares the challenges and frustrations of listening to radio on the web. As a power user of streaming, I agree with all of his observations. While many of the problems are out of a PD’s control, a good programmer can eliminate this one: “Streaming more has made me very conscious, [...]
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More evidence that Bonneville is the most forward-thinking and forward-acting American radio group. This piece is reprinted from my News Talk Edge newsletter KTAR/PHOENIX BELIEVES IT HAS SEEN THE FUTURE OF RADIO, and it is video. In what PDRuss Hill calls a glimpse of things to come, the Bonneville news/talk station streamed three-plus hours of original [...]
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What if you could fill a weekend time slot, a secondary Internet stream or an HD Radio channel with tons of original local programming — for free. Is that something you’d be interested in? It’s happening already on blog sites across the Internet from Huffington Post to hyper-local news sites. People are sharing their reporting, [...]
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Allow me to introduce the new Top Dog at CNN Radio. Take a look at his resume in today’s article from NTSMediaOnline.com. Job history look familiar? Probably not. I spoke to a CNN recruiter about this job almost a year ago. It was clear to me within minutes that they were looking for an Interactive [...]
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When veteran personality Denny Schaffer was released from WGST/Atlanta in late 2006 he figured it was just another turn of the radio career wheel. Sooner or later, he thought, he’d be back on the radio. And he was right. Schaffer is currently the evening host on Salem talker WGKA/Atlanta. But his path back to terrestrial radio [...]
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The upgraded Public Radio Player iPhone app gets a rave review on the ars technology blog. The improved tool offers public radio fans more and easier access to on-demand programming. Interesting conclusion to the post: “With commercial radio relying so heavily on ads and Arbitron ratings, an iPhone app that gives listeners this much control over how [...]
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