Episodes

David Phillips is the President and COO of NLogic. His discussions on data and surveys have been well received at media conferences, which spurned my interest in bringing David onto the podcast last fall. The timing was right this spring with the recent upgrades to the Lens product. His perspective is unique and refreshing; it will leave radio people wondering why we behave and think the way we do. NLogic is a company that has been trying to get radio to look at itself differ

Last Tuesday night I couldn't get to sleep. Not by 1am or 2am or 3am. By 4am I had to ask what's wrong? After a period of reconnecting with meditation, it was the impending ratings book that was coming out on Thursday. So even as a radio consultant, I find myself worrying about a client's success more than a doctor would consider healthy. Specifically, the worry was about a station I had helped launch over a year ago. We had changed the format from Hot AC to Classic Hits. Sin

TSN put out a press release declaring that they had the most watched January in the last five years; with none of it actually being NHL hockey. The proverbial sports bloggers like Awful Announcing ran stories with an undertone of surprise. While hockey has long been the holy grail of sports during our Canadian winters, the NHL product is riddled with holes. Quoting directly from the Press Release, here are the highlights: World Juniors TSN and RDS combined to average 7.1 mill