Posted by Randall Bloomquist on March 24, 2010
Red Eye Radio host Doug McIntyre gets my nod for Most Insightful Speaker at this year’s Talkers New Media Seminar. During a panel discussion about the challenges facing talk radio, McIntyre said: “I’ve always thought of doing talk radio as an actor doing Shakespeare. We all have the same words to work with, so the [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on March 21, 2010
What do you call a room packed full of talk radio pros looking for something to believe in? Church? Ha! Funny. No, it was the 2010 Talkers New Media Seminar. Give tremendous credit to Talkers publisher Michael Harrison. Despite the weak economy and radio’s on-going woes, this weekend’s event drew a sell-out crowd of syndicators, [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on February 10, 2010
The Daily Beast recently posted a list of talk show hosts who are supposedly poised to be “the next Glenn Beck.” This apparently means a personality capable of transcending radio to become a political or cultural force. You know, somebody who will one day be the subject of a fretful Time magazine cover story. Daily [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on June 8, 2009
The Saturday session of this year’s Talkers New Media Seminar delivered both substantive information and celebrity heat. Some notes: – Consultant Holland Cooke did an excellent job of reminding talk radio pros that their next gig may not be at a radio station. Cooke urged attendees to think of themselves as content creators — writers, public [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on June 6, 2009
The 2009 Talkers New Media Seminar is being held in a modest-sized venue tucked in the basement of a no-frills Manhattan office building. Attendance is dominated by syndicators. The smattering of local PD’s in attendace is nearly matched by the number of out-of-work programmers looking for their next main chance. Yet the event is marked by a determination to [...]
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on March 18, 2009
As if talk radio didn’t have enough problems, the format’s heart and soul are now under attack from within. In the December/January issue of the trade publication Talkers, consultant Holland Cooke announced the death of the talk radio star – a victim, he believes, of the new interactive media, where people want to buzz amongst themselves rather than “being talked at.” “Self-congratulatory [...]
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