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Thursday, Feb 16

Cyberspace is the New Overnight Shift

By: Valerie Geller

PDs ask: Where can you go to discover and develop new talk radio talent? And where can someone who wants to do talk radio get their first job? It wasn’t that long ago, if you wanted to be a talk show host, you could get experience on the station’s overnight shift. Since those positions have mostly been replaced with syndicated programming, the new training slot has moved online.

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Thursday, Dec 8

Emergency Coverage: We Can’t Afford It?

By: Howard Price

Back in late October, I wasn’t one in a million. I was one in about THREE MILLION…three million Northeasterners plunged into darkness in the wake of our Snowtober storm that dumped in excess of a foot of snow in some places, and went through trees and power lines in nearly all places with the ferocity of a buzzsaw. A perfect opportunity for radio to shine, right? Maybe not so much.

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Thursday, Dec 1

The End Of the World As We Know It?

By: Phil Boyce

Former Talk Radio Network President Phil Boyce shares his thoughts on the radio industry today, the changes we’ve experienced, and how he’s not giving up on the industry that he’s been privileged to be part of, since the age of 14. He says, “It may be the end of the radio world as we know it. But it is NOT the end of the world.”

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Thursday, Nov 17

The S.T.P. Strategy

By: Kirk Tanter

Guest contributor Kirk Tanter, Operations Supervisor for Radio One’s Syndication One News Talk Network, shares his thoughts on the opportunities that the News/Talk format has right now to become more community oriented and promotionally savvy. With an S.T.P. strategy, News/Talk stations should "See The People" and literally, reach out and touch listeners personally, more so now than ever before.

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Thursday, Nov 10

KGO’s Lynn Jimenez On The Importance Of Having a Diversified Career

By: Phyllis Stark

For more than 20 years, Lynn Jimenez has been the weekday business reporter for KGO (NewsTalk AM 810) San Francisco. In 2008, she published her first book “¿Se Habla Dinero? The Everyday Guide to Financial Success,” a family financial manual written in English and Spanish. Two years ago, Jimenez became the permanent substitute host for Bob Brinker on the nationally syndicated radio program “MoneyTalk.” NewsTalk Edge talks one-on-one with Jimenez on the importance of having a diversified career.

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