"After 30 years of getting up at an ungodly hour, in the middle of the night basically, I have decided that early next year I am going to step away from the morning show."
Talent must first understand who they are in the context of the show, what they are trying to communicate and especially in the case of mornings, the plot of their show.
For the most part, Alternative stations have stopped chasing after one-off TikTok artists and gone back to what the format is best at: finding and exposing talented new musicians who will (ideally) have long careers.
There are a lot of dull, boring “paint by numbers” stations, though. I don’t want to hear the exact same music and Content in Dallas as I do in Milwaukee.
When I was in high school, I asked my dad if he knew anyone at a local radio station. I’d just been fired from Burger King (yes, it’s a story) and wanted to do something different to make money.
He began his consultancy in 1984. In 2011, he joined Cumulus Media as Senior Vice President of Programming. In 2018, he left Cumulus and returned to McVay Media.
"It's so out in the open now that we're completely unbothered by somebody having a platform on an illegal offshore sports book website, and we just say, "Ah, no big deal." That's a sports media job."