Posted by Randall Bloomquist on January 31, 2012
CKLW-AM’s legendary 20/10 News is the subject of a great video currently flying around the Internet. If you haven’t seen it, watch it right now. If you are responsible for audio content creation in any way — news director, program director, podcaster — this could be the most valuable nine minutes of your day. The lesson [...]
Categories: Programming Advice, Talent Development, Uncategorized |
Tags: CKLW, David Hull, news writing, WGST | 
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Posted by Randall Bloomquist on April 2, 2010
Former WGST/Atlanta talker Kim Peterson is launching a podcast this month, three-plus years after I fired him. In its heyday, Kimmer’s show was fantastic; a one-of-a-kind roller coaster ride through the day’s news and topics driven by Kimmer’s manic energy, macho conservatism and rollicking sense of humor. No surprise that his fans and sponsors were, [...]
Categories: New Media, Programming Advice, Uncategorized |
Tags: Kim Peterson, podcast, The KImmer, WGST | No Comments »
Posted by Randall Bloomquist on January 27, 2010
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 [...]
Categories: Internet Broadcasting, Technology |
Tags: Crystal Lake Johnson, Denny Schaffer, Internet radio, Live365.com, WGKA, WGST | Comments Off
Posted by Randall Bloomquist on November 11, 2009
Dear Friends and Colleagues – I started TalkFrontier.com eight months ago as an experiment, as a way to learn about New Media while continuing to share my opinions and ideas about talk radio. At the time, I took a pretty dim view of radio’s prospects. But a funny thing happened across those eight months and 95 blog posts. The more [...]
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Tags: content development, randall bloomquist, talent management, talk frontier, talk frontier media, talk radio, talk radio consulting, WBT, WGST, WMAL, WRVA | Comments Off
Posted by Randall Bloomquist on April 21, 2009
Given the current emphasis on localism and community service, news/talk programmers should be ready with a plan to expand their station’s efforts. Here are two potential partners that can make a PD look fantastic to his general manager, sales managers and audience. Both organizations help support military families, a group dealing with the one-two punch of long deployments [...]
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Tags: Fisher House Foundation, news/talk, Operation Homefront, WGST, WMAL, WTKK | No Comments »
