Tag: Perry Michael Simon

The platforms are the ones using your opinion to make money (and train their AI engines). You get to think that your value is measured by the number of followers and likes you accumulate.

Most of what you see and hear at CES isn’t at all what the future will be like, or it’s an overblown, overstated version of what’s coming next.

Emergency information in a ubiquitous, uninterrupted manner is dependent on budgets that a lot of stations just don’t have.

Keeping the watchdogs on a short leash is good for billionaires but it isn’t good for America.

The best radio and podcasts, the breakouts, are the ones where the talent – hosts and producers – are unique and entertaining, tuned into what the audience seeks while being themselves.

You have to be creative to get the word out. One thing radio could learn from its own past is that outlandish publicity stunts work.

It’s becoming increasingly hard to remain optimistic about the medium.

Every time I start to lapse into the mindset that I’d better check in on the news, I remind myself that there is plenty of other material to take its place.

"How many traditional news outlets are effectively using TikTok, for example? How well did traditional media fare when Facebook and Google took their content and advertising revenue?"

Tell someone you meet that you’re in radio and they’ll shrug and move on as if you told them you work the drive-thru at Culver’s.