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“What would we do if we had to offer our content behind a paywall?”

Whether on the air, in sales, or in management, we live in an industry powered by storytelling.

“We got paired together for mornings by accident, basically,” says Wilcox. “Woody was already doing mornings with a couple of other people. I was filling in for the traffic woman because she was on vacation for the week, and I didn’t have a fulltime job at that point."

Now is a great time for radio stations to take an honest, hard look at what is working and what is being held on to because “that’s how we’ve always done it.”

“I'd rather have gas in the tank than have people listen to me and say, man, when is that guy going to end it?"

It’s a truly extraordinary phenomenon, with the number of half-truths and opinions presented as fact and straight-up misleading information about the state of radio, particularly online.

We all experience the pain involved in breaking bad habits, whether it’s dieting, quitting smoking/vaping, nail-biting, or the plethora of other bad habits, from chewing tobacco to swearing too often.

“Passion is what it's really about—passion about what you do, passion about how you do it, passion for who you're serving, who you're working with, and just trying to lift everybody up."

When anyone – radio or non-radio - approaches us about developing a podcast, we take them through the following short but effective questionnaire:

In the mid-80s, Bruce Vidal ruled Los Angeles evenings at KIIS. His main competitor was Laurie Allen at KMGG FM 105 whose job he took at KIIS and who also happened to be his wife.