Tag: Dave Williams

With radio, the top of the hour always begins with a self-aggrandizing, overly-produced introduction to a program I may have been listening to for half an hour already.

Talk radio and other traditional media are constantly exploited by slick professional manipulators of public opinion who operate at every level of political influence from the White House Press Secretary down to your local school district’s media department.

The answers I’ve received so far are not necessarily related specifically to radio but rather to Life Its Ownself.

The undeniable fact is personal endorsements work and they’re a great profit tool. Major market stations charge advertisers between 30 and 40+ percent premium rates for endorsements.

"We cover a lot of things. So that is not our only focus."

Bias, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. If you agree with a particular viewpoint, it’s beautiful.

Corporate policies are cold and rigid.

Rush quietly and often anonymously gave much of his fortune to many worthy causes. He didn’t want that soft side of him to become public – he had an image to maintain.

I hate to raise a problem without suggesting a solution but I’m as lost here as anybody. I do believe, though, that success in any business starts with talent, however you define it.

You’ll know when you’ve found it; it hits you the day you realize you've grown up when after years of just talking, you know who you are when you pop that mic.