I recently had a conversation with one of my colleagues about the current consultant he is working with. Very much “the usual suspect.” Overpaid, 60+, white male who hasn’t been on the front line in over 2 decades. The kind of consultant who just lays out the old school schtick, breaks out the old school manual, and say’s things like, “It’s always been done this way,” or “That’s just the way it is.” Then it’s followed up by an old radio story from over 30 years ago (that you’ve heard several times) and it’s finished by, “And that’s how we were #1 in the market consistently for over 5 years in a row.” That’s a good 45 minutes of your life you’ll never get back. But’s it’s the typical story.

California-based fast-food chain In-N-Out announced last week that it would be expanding into Tennessee. How does this impact me? Well, first of all, I just moved back to Nashville, and secondly, everybody I know sent me a link to the story when it came out, as if ...

They say the biggest form of flattery is when someone copies your ideas. An old colleague of mine use to always say, “The best ideas are stolen,” and he knew from experience that it was true, and good for success. Now, don’t get me wrong, I am completely ...

Last week I drove down from Nashville to my hometown of Eunice, Louisiana to spend the Thanksgiving Holiday with my family down in the bayou. The drive is exactly 671 miles from my parking space at my complex to my mom’s back door. It took me exactly 9 hours to ...

Why are we making our listeners jump through hoops to listen to us? Why are we making our listeners jump through hoops to win from us? It’s bad enough that our ratings system and methodology (PPM) is difficult enough to actually achieve “real” ratings ...

It’s so appropriate that my first outing for All Access after moving to Nashville was the revealing of a new Dolly Parton Mural in the downtown area. Let me start by telling you that for as long as I can remember, I have always been the biggest Dolly Parton fan I ...

There are so many dynamics when it comes to the “work marriage” topic. But for the sake of this column, I am going to focus on the three most common and most challenging examples in the industry. Just because lately, while the industry is in an uproar, and ...

“The only way to fix the problem is to go back and re-do everything that was done, returning the brand to its original strategy that is consistent with its listeners’ expectations” It’s a quote from a column I wrote in July of 2021 called ...

Let me first start by saying that this year’s Morning Show Boot Camp in Chicago was a “Home Run.” The turn out was great, the panels were informative, the level of talent on the panels and the prep they came with was above and beyond. I think it’s ...

Sounds like a cliché, right? Well, it is. But it’s true, certain songs, just like certain smells we come across in our lives can trigger memories that can either take us back to paradise or send us over the edge from anger or sadness. I was walking on the ...