The Golden Age of Radio?

How many hours are there in a week? Anyone who’s been around radio programming for any length of time knows it’s 168 hours. Part of the job of programmers has been to determine what’s the best content to put on the station within that 168-hour window each week. And, more importantly, what to put into…

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A Listener Focus Group at an Industry Conference?

What if you conducted a live focus group of listeners in front of a room of talk radio managers, consultants, programmers and hosts? No mirrors. No video cameras. Nothing between the panelists and the seasoned talk radio professionals. NuVoodoo did it in Atlanta for Talk Show Boot Camp 2015 and did again March 5 at…

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Pumpkin Spice Lattes Mean Just One Thing

The days are getting shorter. School buses are back on the road. Pumpkin spice lattes are returning to your local coffee house. All of this, of course, can mean only one thing: budget time is nearly here! One of the toughest things about serially-tightened budgets is that many stations are looking for ways to reduce…

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Imagine This…

Imagine this revised history: One in which many years ago computers became small, the internet connected everything and short-distance wireless communication was commonplace.  Now, imagine that only within the past decade we’d developed wireless technology that allowed the transmission of a signal over a range of 30 miles or more. Now imagine that our government…

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