Episodes

Dave Farough: If I Had A Clean Sheet of Paper

I read a post by the very smart Seth Godin today where he asked the question "what would you do (about various issues or industries he...

Mapping Radio's Future

Over the last few weeks, there have been significant data releases involving radio, audio, podcast and technology. You can access part or...

The Audience Insights of Jeff Vidler

Jeff Vidler has been involved in research for a long time. After the podcast had been recorded, I remembered a time when, as program...

Fearless Fred from 102.1 The Edge - Unedited

Fearless Fred is the morning show host at 102.1 the Edge in Toronto. During Fred's cross Canada radio career, we counted 6 cities and 2...

NFL is Back! The Sports Radio PD Gets Us Ready

This podcast happened to come out on the one year anniversary of Jason Barrett's foray into the world of entrepreneurship. He will be the...

Making the Trip Back to Fort Mac

Our very first podcast episode featured Andrew Wilcox and what it was like to leave a radio station behind. We catch up with Andrew and...

Radio Innovation or the Lack Thereof

It was at 9:11am at The Conclave Radio Learning Conference when the question was asked: "Name something your station has done in the last...

Update from Head Office

I am looking forward to the next few weeks which will be full of meeting great people, working on projects and having conversations about...

The Goodbye to Radio Girl

Kate McCallum and Adam Doolittle were let go from their radio jobs in the spring of 2015. Overworked and exhausted, the couple made the...

The Importance of Responding to your Listeners

My first day in radio was a Sunday morning in a 50,000 person market. I was nervous but excited to get on the air and crank out those...

Why Bother with Digital?

Last month I conducted a digital session with two medium market stations. (One country and one news) Each session participant receives my...

Fab 94.3 Becomes The New 94.3 - The Drive

At 10am Central Time on February 5th, Fab 94.3 Winnipeg became the New 94.3 The Drive. For the last two weeks, the Pattison owned station...

Broadcasting Is The 8th Most Stressful Job

Annually, the good people at Career Cast release their list of the ten most stressful jobs for 2016. The methodology of the survey is...

Colin Cowherd: Flailing NFL QB's Should Go to the CFL

Yesterday on IHeartRadio's The Herd, host Colin Cowherd suggested that the CFL is a great place for clipboard carrying NFL Quarterbacks...

Next Review of Radio: Questions For the CRTC Commissioner

Every week I say, "I must remember to ask that question the next time the CRTC decides to conduct their review of radio." I will be...

Radio Lessons from the Canadian Election

There's a lot of similarities between running a political campaign and programming a radio station. Let's assume your station is a...

You Need to Have a Podcasting Strategy

A few weeks ago I was having lunch with a long time radio personality and he asked me, "Do you think if I had a podcast it would help or...

The History of the Death of Radio

Over the past few years, radio has taken its fair share of shots from other platforms. Terms like "yesterday's news", "old and outdated",...

Power 97 gets its proper send off

It took almost a half year to happen, but Power 97 got the send off it deserved. Saturday night, an amazing collection of Canadian radio...

Effective Uses of Periscope for Radio

Periscope had its coming out party over the weekend with thousands pulling in live streams of the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. Watching a...