Posted by Randall Bloomquist on February 4, 2011
The talk host was extremely frustrated. He had recently done what he and his team thought was four great hours on the Chinese Tiger Mom topic. The show seemed to have it all – lots of great calls, tons of emotion, several different angles on parenting, and great forward momentum. “We were all high-fiving at [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on March 27, 2010
This Michael Kinsley critique of newspaper writing will be fascinating to anyone with a passion for news. Kinsley’s argument that the prints desperately need to update their presentation of the news has me wondering: When was the last time we seriously thought about whether radio news is truly serving the wants/needs of today’s listeners? A [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on January 11, 2010
A recent column in Toronto’s Globe and Mail reports that Canadian sports-talk stations have developed a serious bias against callers, with some shows banning them all together, and others limiting listener participation to special “hot-button topic” segments or post-game shows. The most eyebrow-raising observation in the column comes from Bob McCown, host of an afternoon [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on April 25, 2009
Nope, not the band, the market. Inside Radio’s Mike Kinosian reports that with its first monthly report, Boston becomes the #1 PPM market for Talk listening. Kinosian adds the footnote that the Boston Talk number includes WBZ-AM, a true news/talk hybrid. But it’s no surprise that Boston is rockin’ the chart – Beantown has always been a great [...]
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