Tag: News Talk

It’s a chance to show off our pop culture knowledge, embrace the top pop culture story of the year, lean into the football angle and prove to the listeners across our cities that we aren’t one-trick ponies reading Presidential polls.

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.

Radio is teamwork. Being on a team show can be so much more fun. But certain dynamics make a team show work.  You can’t be parrots...

"The only way to change perception is to remind people what makes radio/TV special, and how well it works."

There’s always that fine line between helping the bottom line and doing what’s in the best interests of the station, and ultimately the listener.

This is probably not the most eloquent or unique thing that you have read on the subject, but hopefully, it allows you to chew through a few things. 

If adding targeted, interesting, appointment-listening guests to your station can make a sizable impact on your ratings.

The top 20 positions have experienced minimal changes.

The news/talk audience is getting older. This is somewhat self-inflicted. We are still doing our shows in the same template Rush Limbaugh innovated in 1987. Time to change it up. 

Tavis Smiley has announced his daily African American liberal talk program will be launched into national syndication. Smiley, whose program originates from the station he...