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Would you call it a habit if you can’t be in the car, driving, looking at the clock and see that it’s approaching the top of a new hour without feeling like you need to turn from music or talk or sports or whatever to hear the news from CBS Radio? A compulsion? Is it … Continued
It’s been a week since I first read about the new media consumption survey from the University of Mississippi and it it feels even more relevant today, in light of the reaction of the White House Correspondents’ dinner incident than it did even a week ago. You can read it here. The survey goes into … Continued
Farmington Hills, Mich./Champaign, IL. (October 24) – MarCom, awarding excellence in marketing, branding, and communications each year among dozens of categories across an international spectrum, has honored Tanner Friedman Strategic Communications with a Gold award for its weekly radio show on WEFT-FM Radio, “My Favorite Vinyl with Don Tanner.” The program combines public affairs with … Continued
Social media, especially Facebook, is at its worst when posters are arguing with people who barely know the same person they barely know. Wednesday night, after the murder of Charlie Kirk, it was ugly. So ugly, some of those who felt like they just had to post what was off the top of their heads … Continued
They say the first step to solving a problem is admitting you have a problem. I’ve said, after years of working with clients in crisis, that there’s nothing professionals can do to help an emergence from crisis until the client admits it’s in crisis. Those were my first thoughts as I attended the “Local News … Continued
On August 26, 2024, WCBS-AM will no longer exist. Even after writing about media change for more than 15 years, that sentence didn’t seem real as I was typing it. It’s tough to come up with an analogy to fit this situation. A corporation emerging from bankruptcy has killed the nation’s first all-news radio station. … Continued