When I was the PD of Nine FM we had a morning show issue. We had to get rid of a morning show that didn’t fit the direction we were taking the station in but my GM wouldn’t allow me to cut bait until we had a solution. Serving Chicagoland from the suburbs, we had [...]
December 16, 2008 is the day many folks will remember as “the day traffic stood still” for upwards of 4 hours. Upwards of 4 hours. Now try as you might, you’d be hard pressed to gab on the phone to friends and loved ones for 4 hours. You can’t watch TV in a car for [...]
The Mix in Chicago is an Eric & Kathy machine. The music has become more adult top 40 and alt at times than Hot AC, and there have been a slew of various midday, afternoon and evening experiments on the air during Eric & Kathy’s era of dominance. Eric and Kathy will certainly not allow [...]
John Moore at BrandAutopsy.com runs a series of blogs where he asks people if they would miss popular brands. Here he asks about Business Week. Inevitably, I find my answer to his question is usually “no”. He did one on Pizza Hut also. Seriously…would you care if Pizza Hut went the way of Sizzler? I [...]