RADIO CASHES IN ON LOVE

If you talk about what Rush, Hannity, Beck, or Savage talk about on their shows, they then become unbeatable.

Negativity is the killer of Creativity.

If we all evolved from Monkeys how come they still exist, or were they just the smart ones that decided not to come along.

Hugh Heller who did some brilliant jingles for us at Fairbanks, told me it was real tough mixing Black and White singers together because Whites tend to sing a hair sharp and Black folks tend to sing a bit flat. The result kinda produces a dis chord.

Rhody Bosley once told me if he owned a radio station he first would find out where his signal was the loudest and cleanest. Then he would go door to door and ask the folks who live there exactly what do they want to hear, and just do that. Rhody that’s a way too simple, we radio folks need it to be a lot more complicated than that.

Having dinner with The Murph, Robert Murphy the other night he told me that the greatest thing that happened to him in radio was getting fired.
It seems the station he was working for wanted to change to an Urban Format, so they cleaned house and paid his contract off.
That sudden move allowed him to get all his financial ducks in a row. The best part of it all he says is now he no longer has to have anymore meetings with GM’s & PD’s.

When your past is bigger than your future … It’s time to start writing.

Before I hang ‘em up I would love to put together “The Last Programming Conference”.

At this final get together I would really enjoy talking a little radio trash with some fine folks like … Buzz Bennett, Lee Masters, Bill Tanner, Ron Jacobs, Bob Pittman, Randy Michaels, Kevin Metheny, Claude Hall, Jerry Del Colliano, Scott Shannon, Reg Johns, Ron Chapman, Jeff and Jer, Brent Farris, Reid Reker, Bobby Cole, Tim Moore, Jim Hilliard, Lee Abrams, Jack McCoy, Bill Gardner, Cris Conner, Delilah, Gary Vidler, Chuck McCoy, Keith Elshaw, Woody Cooper, Doc Harris, Ken Singer, Bob Christy, Pam Cesak, J Robert Wood, Red Robinson, Pat O’Day, Jo Myers, Rollye James, Chuck Knapp, Rick Shaw, Little Tommy, Russ Morley, Bruce Munson, Ken Moultrie, Jason Williams, Gary Burbank, Bobby Rich, Warren Cosford, Charlie Van Dyke, and Mike McVay.

I’m not sure that radio sales people are too much different than any other sales people. But I do believe that on air talent are unlike any other human beings I have ever met.

Robin Garret claims money is an aphrodisiac.

When Jim Hilliard owned WRMF we were billing over a million a month and were #1 biller in the market. WRMF is still the #1 biller in town but I hear now they bill around Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand a month. That I think about sums up how radio sales is doing.

Roy Williams said unsolicited advise is abuse.

Jake (Scooter) Hagen said all the smack talk used in all the Olympic Hockey games by all the teams from all the different countries represented, was all English.
I guess the F bomb just doesn’t sound as special in other languages as it does in English.

66% of the Canadian population watched the Canada, US, Olympic Gold hockey game. My old good friend from Transcona Jim Quail said, it’s lucky Canada won the gold, otherwise there would have been a mass funeral immediately following the game and the NHL would be looking for a whole bunch of new hockey players.

Gary Ryan Blair says life doesn’t go according to plan, if you don’t have a plan.

Scott Shannon told me that he likes the musings where I write about my daughters the best. He and I both intensely agree that if anybody hurt our daughters they better hope they get put away quick because they would never make it out of the court room alive. We figure the worst that could happen to us is, we would be judged by our peers. Fathers of Daughters.

60% of Americans believe that if off shore drilling is allowed that oil and gas prices will drop. The oil companies of course are very very quiet on the subject or should I say … SILENT!

My Brother Reg said there are no sales nor ratings without one simple word. Engagement !

Frances Frei says you cannot change a persons behavior until you change their beliefs.

The only people who want radio to be different today are the folks who are listening and the folks who are not.

I keep noticing that when I hit spell check on my computer it always claims I have misspelled my name.

I learned very early in my radio career that those who made all the decisions also made all the money.

Have you noticed the more deregulated the big companies get, the more regulated we the folks become.

John Hayes said to a KKOB staff member in … Would you please drive me to downtown Albuquerque. We are downtown the staff member said. “Then you need to drive me to the airport” was John’s reported response.

Gary Miles said to me after I had just spoken to a gathering in Toronto of all the Rogers Radio stations in Canada … ” George even though we didn’t pay you to do this, I still feel we overpaid.”

Cat Simon once pointed his finger at me and said, I, I, I, I get it now Johnsy, I got it! Even though on your clock you don’t have any room for bits, I, I, I can do them anytime I want to as long as you laugh … Right?

I don’t think PPM reacts well to radio slogans and radio jargon.

I doubt very much that many people would pay for what most radio gives them for free.

A huge ego is not a very pretty thing.

Jack McCoy once told me that when they took the word please out of the instructions, more people filled out even more listening in their ARB diary.

Jarl Mohn (Lee Masters) just told me that even though they were actually naming the 24 million dollar studios they were building at KPPC in Pasadena after him … His main job at the station was to write the liners.

Jeff Vidler says a new study shows that radio in the United Kingdom is now gaining listeners unlike North America where even though Satellite Radio is not that successful, it is still a big enough force to prevent any listenership gains by Traditional Radio.

“Got Scoop” Just received a very early draft from Marnie Howard of a new book she is writing which serves up a 101 ways to have and hold on to the worlds most beautiful women. Color me fully armed and loaded with insider info.

Ford Wilson who has this whisper act going, wants to know if I have enough juice to get him on American Idol.

Roy Laughlin told me that PPM hurt morning shows two ways. First, the device doesn’t capture the total listening time early in the morning. Secondly, it discovered that the P1s didn’t listen as often nor as long as they thought they did when they used to fill out a diary. More @ www.GeorgeJohns.com