Inside Music Media The secret is buried under 280 million aging vehicles that don’t tell the real story. Read the article now     Start a new subscription here

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Inside Music Media A quiet objection that could cost radio dearly The one unintended consequence advertisers will actively fight  How advertisers are okay with the

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Deserted Island I asked one of my classes what they would do if they were stranded on a deserted island with no food but they could have either Spotify or TikTok, not both.  Y

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Inside Music Media The unintended consequences this time around Read the article now     Start a new subscription here

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Hocus Pocus Focus What to do when the world seems unable to focus and we are beginning to believe we’re talking to ourselves.  Last week as my wife and I were driving down a c

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Inside Music Media A quiet shift in programming strategy could have big consequences Read the article now     Start a new subscription here

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Your New Best Friend It turns out we are not likely to have any shortage of friends in our lives, we’re just missing the right one.  Especially among younger adults there seems t

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Inside Music Media The potential buyer who could go first Read the article now     Start a new subscription here

Reclaiming Radio Frequencies -- #radio insidemusicmedia.com/reclaiming-r...

Cement Brain I saw an article recently that got me at "Your brain sort of wakes up like wet cement," a phrase behavioral scientist Zelana Montminy author of Finding Focus u

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It’s a Turn Down Day In the third class of the fall semester one of my classes surprised me by turning off their digital devices before being prompted – I think in part, because t

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Inside Music Media What could go wrong for Audacy Read the article now     Start a new subscription here

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Inside Music Media One FCC move could change everything for Audacy—and every other broadcaster Read the article now     Start a new subscription here

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Honesty If you really want people to be honest with you, they have to feel safe as if they can expect your approval and acceptance for telling you the truth.  That mea

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Inside Music Media The real battle is over media mergers in a collapsing linear industry. Read the article now     Start a new subscription here

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I Heard the News Today, Oh Boy! Finding out this semester that the doom and gloom news about the world, their futures and potential job availability is weighing heavier on young people – in

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Inside Music Media Non-commercial EMF is not subject to advertising turndowns – what could possibly go wrong. What they see about FM that other potential buyers don’t.

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Job Shaming You learn something every day when you are in front of college students – a simple assignment to connect with industry people on LinkedIn gets resistance. Why

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Audacy's Surgical Strike Against Competitor -- #radio insidemusicmedia.com/audacys-surg...

Live as If It’s Your Second Life Viktor Frankl said “Live as if you were living for the second time.” Every crisis presents opportunity. Learn from the mistakes of your “first life”.

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Brutal Cumulus Managers Call -- #radio insidemusicmedia.com/brutal-cumul...

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Talk Radio's Role in Political Violence -- #radio insidemusicmedia.com/talk-radios-...

Just a Stepping Stone This semester I asked my new NYU students how they are feeling about things and what I heard took me by surprise. They are tired – tired of beating their hea

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Your Way I love teaching – more than I could have ever imagined and yet I didn’t like it when I first started as a Dale Carnegie instructor.  After some pretty rigo

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Days of Future Past The past is a file on your desktop that you view to learn or retrieve information. The future is a blueprint -- a collection of hopes and dreams. The present

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PodCons -- Downloads for Sale -- #podcasting insidemusicmedia.com/podcon-downl...

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iHeart's Stock Runup -- Is It Real? -- #radio insidemusicmedia.com/ihearts-stoc...

No Spit! Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter got tossed from the season’s first game for spitting at Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott – there’s also video

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