Last Thursday on “The Daily Show,” Mark Ruffalo introduced a montage of clips showing the many times Jon Stewart has admitted that he hasn’t seen a guest’s movie. I suppose this was meant to jokingly embarrass Stewart, as if he’s never prepared for interview. To the contrary, in his 16 years on the show, Stewart […]
Shame on ABC Radio for leading its Noon CT newscast today with the conspiracy theorists in Texas who believe that upcoming military exercises by the Pentagon are part of a plan to takeover their state and take away their guns. The anchor even included audio of an extreme right-wing radio host whose main agenda is […]
When I worked for WYNY/New York in 1985-86, the biggest star on the radio station wasn’t me or my morning show partner, nor the guys who did middays and afternoons. WYNY’s most well-known personality was a petite sex therapist with a German accent named Dr. Ruth Westheimer, who started with a 15-minute weekly show (on […]
Yesterday, I wrote about how I loved radio station jingles when I was growing up. Composing that piece, my mind flashed back to the late 1970s when I heard an interesting variation on regular jingles that I’ve never heard anywhere else. I was in college on Long Island at the time, and although I spent […]
Growing up, I was a fan of great radio jingles like those produced by legendary production houses JAM and PAMS, which were heard on hundreds of radio stations across the country (and around the world). From hyper-fast name-shouts to shotguns to full-length theme songs about their cities, they all intrigued me. In my basement, along […]
Clutter has always been a problem in the radio business. Stations want to give you lots of content, but still get in all the commercials and sponsorship messages that pay for the rest of the programming you want to hear, hopefully without making you tune out. Why, then, would a radio station publicize the fact […]