Just wandering around wondering.
Don’t you wonder some time whether those radio guys have any idea what all those inspirational words really mean when they just kinda pop those Vince Lombardi type quotes into the middle of a creative conversation you thought you were having.
If your a Notre Dame fan, don’t you just wish your coach was as talented as his ego is telling him he is.
Tom Mullane says that music is much better than religion at bringing people together because nobody dies. But he also says his research might be a bit flawed because he hasn’t checked the stats on rap music yet.
Joe Amaturo recently asked me how long I thought a project we were working on together was going to take. I told him I thought about six months. He said isn’t that a little too quick plus just a little unrealistic. I responded with … Nah! If I give myself more time it will just take longer.
So with all the interns that were involved with David Letterman my only question is …. Was he doing them or were they doing him?
Bobby Cole told me a long time ago that the definition of diplomacy is the Art of simply letting others have your way.
A life changing moment occurred in my life and I think maybe for the rest of The Jury when we for the first time heard Jimmy Darin play our record “Until You Do” on the radio.
I’m unconvinced that I could be convinced to let the law run it’s course should anyone hurt the woman I love, or even worse, harm my daughters.
If there were no birds would there be any airplanes ?
If most of the people of a nation were peaceful but it’s leaders were not. Does that still mean it is a peaceful nation ?
Another life changing moment occurred when my daughter Candis was born. The next one occurred 28 years later when my daughter Cami was born.
Have you ever noticed the most irritating thing about voice messages is the fact that you can’t say “Got It” halfway through the message.
Dreams are not built on logic so if you ever hope to achieve any of yours, know this … It’s going to take a lot more than logic to get them done.
Radio is a mere reflection of life but even as the world has changed dramatically in the last couple of years radio has not.
Bono said on an awards show that all musicians wonder if after they pass on will anybody remember them. He went on to say that in the building tonight was one musician that didn’t have to worry about that because the world will still be singing his songs three hundred years after he was gone. Then he introduced Sir Paul McCartney.
A big market will not listen to a smaller market.
A small market will listen to a larger market.
The only way to get back the large market listener to his small market radio station is two things.
Eliminate completely any small market sound and add local content.
There are two ways to communicate, one is to say what you think, the other is to say what you know.
I prefer the latter it’s much shorter.
I love my daughters unconditionally, but what keeps me in total awe of them is when they do something deserving of love.
The next King of England is going to become that just because he is a member of the lucky sperm club, not because he did something to deserve it.
Kinda sorta like your boss maybe huh. Your job is to figure out how your going to handle it.
Most of the morning shows I have had the good fortune to coach over the years became millionaires.
In exchange for the bit of help I gave them, they gave me their secrets.
USA Today is not a factor in any market. The local newspaper still is.
I came to the U.S. because of Capitalism. Now that America has moved on to Speculism, I feel it is doomed unless it comes back to Capitalism.
Thank God that I’m still a dual citizen.
I don’t believe the folks know in what order to put the tunes on their Ipod. That’s what radio people used to figure out for them.
If a person who is paid to listen to a radio show (the PD) doesn’t. The radio talent begins to think there is no hope, and the show soon deteriorates.
I just love the sound of a Cello and French Horns mixed together.
During the 70′s, 80′s & 90′s at KVIL in Dallas the income simply over ran the expenses so management stopped worrying about them.
I think even the sales people would agree that it had a lot more to do with the on air product then the sales systems.
In any successful business the formula works this way.
The customer is always #1 the employees are #2 and Mr. businessman is #3.
What about that formula doesn’t radio get ?
A long time ago and far away Lawrence Amaturo pinned a note up on the bulletin board that read … I know how difficult it is “to get” George Johns.
But the only people I need working at our radio stations are people who get him.
I understand that all people don’t get him so if you don’t get him I will accept that as your resignation.
At the next staff meeting a miracle occurred.
I think for the first time in my life everybody got me.
Some people have been put into power for reasons that don’t seem readily apparent.
But I do know this about that. Things better go their way while they have the power or you get to suffer the consequences.
Don Bleu once had a great offer I believe from KFRC.
The management of K101 who were paying him pretty large asked me if I could talk him out of leaving.
I told Don … Once you touch oldies it’s very hard to ever appear young again.
Most of the hit records of all time were never Rock&Roll.
I once had a discussion with Jim Harper of WNIC in Detroit that I felt he had to become the new PD or they would just send in another fool.
Let me see if I have got this straight, the price of gasoline is going up again because a few folks think that we will be using more of it in the future,
Now that’s good for America because … Words fail me here.
Tim Moore recently wrote that there is no such thing as business ethics, there is only “ethics”.
