radio, media and the music biz
Video news in a world without TV
I’ve abandoned the world of television. It’s been about six months now since I’ve given up the burden of paying for and watching brainless TV. Of course, if there is a TV show or a movie that I absolutely have to or wanna watch, there’s always Netflix or torrents. But the one thing I really [...]
Your next job is…. “Content Censor.”
This morning I surfed over to the usual web sites to gander for the latest openings and job postings. About once a week I do check out the Clear Channel and CBS sites, you never know what might be lurking. But I have learned from experience over the years that once jobs turn up on [...]
Free wisdom for broadcasters, from the “beleagured” Apple
Today Apple is a darling, a huge success story. A company that has returned from the ashes and reinvented itself more times than The Trixter has. But it wasn’t that long ago that the un-elected computer intelegencia and the everyday end-user was predicting a quick death for the company that has had more lives than [...]
Adventures in unemployment
OK, So I’ve been looking for work, for just about six months now. I’m not going to go into great detail about the foibles of who I’ve talked to or what’s transpired. But it has been very interesting. It seems these days, since I’ve been at this radio thing for quite a while now, and [...]
My first news anchor gig!
Being unemployed, needless to say, can be a real drag. I mean, how much time in a day can you spend looking for work. After a while, it just becomes relentless. So to find just a little bit of a creative outlet for my splendiferous broadcasting talents, I decided to whip up a little newscast [...]
random thoughts on a monday
For some reason I clicked over to the Huffington Post this morning. I’m not much for the politic you know, so for the most part I tend to avoid these kind of blogs like a botfly. Oh! Now I remember why I pinged over. The main yahoo news page ‘news.yahoo.com‘ lists the Huffington Post [...]
Name that guitarist
I only be gotten one wrongs
I scored 86 - Full Shred! - on the
Name the Guitarist QuizCan you recognize the guitars of famous guitarists ?
by Ibanez Guitars blog
Think locally, reach globally.
Traditional terrestrial radio has reached a eucatastrophy , and it’s time to drink the koolaid.
I do remember the days when mom and pop radio stations were the norm. When there were exceptionally run radio stations that had compelling programming run by motivated and involved community entrepreneurs. I was even lucky enough to work at a [...]
Making radio for people.
So I had insomnia last night and had one of those odd TV accidents. For some reason, while I was surfing for naked pics of the planet Pluto, my TiVo suddenly decided to record the Charlie Rose Show. I haven’t got the foggiest idea who the first guest was. Some feminist with bad hair and [...]
The process and the product.
Once the adventure was in getting there and the journey was the adventure. If you look at the prospect of heading to a new destination, today the journey is something to be avoided. Time not spent well. Toiling from airport terminal to terminal is as fatal as it sounds. Endless busy, noisy rooms and [...]
Why I hate folk music.
Let’s just say I’ve learned to hate it. A pretty perplexing statement for someone with my record collection. In fact what I hate is what it is perceived to be, not necissilarly what it is. To me folk music is a somewhat odd mixture of traditional American music, mostly from the South played by primitive [...]
Elvis who?
So my daughter say’s to me the other night, “Why isn’t there any more rock music?” Well you could have hit me over the head with a 2×4. In the last few day’s we have been inundated with news of the 50th anniversary of the first Elvis hit, an all Elvis channel on satellite radio, [...]
