WGN/Chicago‘s new mid-morning host, Mike McConnell, was struggling for calls in his first days on the air. Ever-resourceful WGN PD Kevin Metheny reportedly fixed that problem by arranging for some of his more clever Tribune Media colleagues to call-in and spar with McConnell. Metheny’s solution receives an arched eyebrow from Chicago media critic Robert Feder in [...]
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Should you attend the upcoming Talk Media Conference and Talk Show Boot Camp? Yes. Visibility and personal connections can play a important role in building a career in the small, tight-knit world of talk radio. From what I hear about attendance, this event will provide a target-rich environment for meeting and greeting people from all [...]
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The following is from my weekly radio-info.com newsletter, News Talk Edge. You can subscribe to the newsletter for free HERE Boot Camp Wisdom: Money Isn’t Everything Don Anthony’s Morning Show Boot Camp drew a serious and committed group of radio pros to New Orleans this past weekend. One highlight was Saturday’s Careers session, featuring a [...]
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Did you hear KFI/LA‘s Tim Conway Jr. on “The Weekend”? He’s very good. But even this talented guy with a famous dad had to hustle to get into talk radio. Here’s how the LA Times tells it: Conway’s new gig is a far cry from “Late Net,” the online talk show he began hosting in [...]
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It can be great fun to hear a couple local stations cross swords. In this segment, the crew at all-sports 106.7 The Fan/Washington is mocking a softball interview with Redskins owner Daniel Snyder conducted by the guys at ESPN 980/Washington, which is owned by the Redskins. But the 106.7 guys spend so much time getting [...]
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Radio and TV talker Ed Schultz is carping about how President Obama hasn’t appeared on his show(s). Big Ed’s most recent outburst came at the Netroots Nation conference of liberal bloggers, as detailed in a post on Mediaite.com. This is a huge mistake; one that reveals an all-to-common failure to understand a core principal of successful [...]
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Old Spice just completed a wildly successful social media campaign of posting short Internet videos responding to people who have blogged or tweeted about the Old Spice TV ads featuring super-buff Isaiah Mustafa. A clever talk host with a sense of humor could do something similar in response to his email or other feedback. There [...]
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WGN/Chicago PD Kevin Metheny has lots of interesting stuff to say about PPM. Slurp from his cup of wisdom in this week’s News Talk Edge, my weekly newsletter. Subscribe for FREE here: http://www.radio-info.com/newsletters?page=2
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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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Until very recently, talk radio was NOT all about politics. True, hosts frequently discussed issues that affected their listeners; but they also talked about the full spectrum of things that real people discuss, many of which arose from the host’s own daily life experience. One of the best talk segments I’ve ever heard was former [...]
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