by music1new | Feb 25, 2023 | Radio Stuff
The thing guys coming into music radio today don’t have that the young radio guys of my generation had is mentors. There is still no school teaching how to do it. It is a craft that is learned by doing. Top 40, the very first radio ‘format’ was born...
by music1new | May 24, 2022 | Radio Stuff
It came out in 1983 and did change things, indeed. For the first time, we had a small, light, very portable recording system. The quality was crappy by pro standards, but listenable. Soon cars had cassette players in the dash. If you loved the...
by music1new | May 10, 2022 | Radio Stuff
Sub-title: American Radio Tales (1946 -1996). I happened across this book on Amazon and have recommended it to many old-hands who remember many of the guys on the pages. Published in 2009 by radio veteran Bob Shannon, he book contains short profiles of the radio...
by music1new | Oct 28, 2021 | Radio Stuff
This linked article below isn’t about M1 or radio, per se. It was an interesting read for me. I post it because we are all of us navigating our way through society’s media mix as we look for ideas and connections that might help us attract more ears to our...
by music1new | Oct 6, 2021 | Radio Stuff
Almost every dime I ever made came to me either directly or indirectly from radio advertising. I’ve recorded thousands of ads and wrote the copy for at least a third of them all. For me, radio advertising has been a life-long topic of study. And it’s...
by music1new | Jul 8, 2021 | Radio Stuff
In case you missed it in the radio trade papers, here’s a link to the new report. An AM signal at 1620 on the dial in Washington D. C. began playing a loop of traffic information on the day of Obama’s inauguration, January 21, 2013. The loop broadcast...
