The Time Dan Seeman (Probably) Saved My Life
During my formative years I was incredibly fortunate to work at WLOL in the Twin Cities. The station was a monster and the talent in the halls was ridiculous. And not just on-air but just across the board from Traffic and Production to the Business Office and Engineering.
The Time We Had 23 Pairs Of World Series Tickets
It’s not easy to be a Minnesota Sports Fan. Life on the tundra and a Lenten diet of lutefisk (jellied cod soaked in lye) have toughened us and have helped make late season collapses easier to suffer through. So we try not to get our hopes up and...
Possibly The Winner Of “The Worst Sales Story…Ever”
If you get a bunch of Programmers together, inevitably someone will bring up the time some AE agreed to do something atrocious or committed the station to doing something that, well, was a really bad idea. It can be soul crushing to see a station just waste a million dollar prize for a seemingly tiny sales opportunity knowing the insane lengths that people will go to try and just PURCHASE concert tickets.
“Dead Air”: The Movie That Never Existed
I celebrate April Fools like some people celebrate Christmas: it’s MY holiday. It celebrates everything that forms the core of my belief system. And I did some good ones over the years. When I was at Kiss 102 in Charlotte there was the Coliseum...
Paige Nienaber’s Excellent Adventure
Promotions as applied to Radio, gaming or anything else requires that you know the audience and what they would actually pay money for. Beefy tee “fun run shirts” aren’t going to move the needle in 2023.
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