Keith Cunningham

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Keith Cunningham is a music industry and Rock/Alternative columnist for Barrett Media and the founder of Black Box Group, a modern-modeled creative & strategic consultancy built for brands that need strategies with teeth. He’s the former Master of Mayhem at 95.5 KLOS-FM in Los Angeles for over a decade, a nationwide consultant, and has been repeatedly voted one of America’s top Program Directors and strategic thinkers. Keith has built his career by taking multi-million-dollar brands from worst to first and leading Marconi & Gracie award winners along the way. A data nerd with a rock-and-roll heart, he is an advisory council member for St. Jude fundraising, a fantasy football champion, and lover of his daughters & dogs. Reach him at keithblackboxgroup@gmail.com or on LinkedIn or X.

Rock Radio May Be Wasting 20-30% Of Its Marketing Dollars

If you’re spending thousands on direct mail, telemarketing, or digital campaigns, ask your vendors where their lists came from and when they were updated.

What If Dave Grohl Wrote Your Radio Station’s Liners

Would Dave read our liners as written? Would he hype a remote like it’s Coachella? How would he invite you to a bar night?

Rock And Alternative Radio Need To Cultivate The X-Factor

There isn’t a blood test that can determine if you have it. Those infected usually don’t know. Identifying Xers is also subjective, but talent coaches and scouts become pros at finding the haves and have-nots.

How Should RockTernative Radio Be Covering Diddy?

Most RockTernative brands won’t be broadcasting the Diddy verdict, but the question is how the formats should cover the trial, if at all.

AI Chooses Rock Over Pop: An Exclusive Interview With AI

This is my exclusive interview with AI, meant to tackle the real issues facing RockTernative. Soon after the interview started, I realized AI likes to jump on its soapbox and hear itself type.

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The NBC News political correspondent spent 10.5 hours live on YouTube Tuesday, providing viewers with election analysis and updates throughout the evening.

Chris Russo Blasts FOX Sports For Promoting Tom Brady First Broadcast In New England Over Packers, Patriots Game

"FOX's promotion all week is the fact that Tom Brady's going back to Foxborough? This is going to be fun. Who the hell cares? I don't care. Call the game on the moon. This is the dumbest thing in the world."

1040 WHO Adds Kelly Nash’s ‘NASHional Briefing’ to Daily Lineup

The move follows a controversy involving Henson that kept him off the air for approximately a month.

Katie Nolan: Pat McAfee Can’t Handle “Heat” Stemming From His Own Success

"The guy is winning in every sense of the word and yet is constantly acting like the world is attacking him baselessly."