All Pros; The Best of The Best
We football fans who find ourselves jonesing for high impact sports competition, a week removed from the Super Bowl, often use football...
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Mike McVay
Feb 13, 20233 min read
Radio Broke My Heart
Valentine’s Day is tomorrow and it seemed like an appropriate time to write about Love. I could wax poetic, but that would be...
Mike McVay
Feb 6, 20234 min read
The Traits of Great On-Air Personalities
There is a realization of the value of on-air talent of late. It’s not like air talent haven’t always been critical to the success of a...
Mike McVay
Jan 30, 20235 min read
Managing Up and Down
I’ve been lucky enough to do just about everything there is to do around radio. Including being at a Corporate Programming Level, Station...
Mike McVay
Jan 23, 202311 min read
Winning Programming
To program a great radio station, you must have many different components working together harmoniously. The following are the components...
Mike McVay
Jan 16, 20235 min read
Radio Does It Better
The Damar Hamlin story that started with an on-field cardiac arrest and resuscitation on January 2nd moved instantly from being a Sports...
Mike McVay
Jan 9, 20234 min read
When You Change Format
The listener awakes. Somethings different. It feels wrong. There’s a disruption to routine. The radio station that they have on their...
Mike McVay
Dec 19, 20224 min read
The Weekend Audience
The weekend kickoff might have been heralded by Scott Shannon when he was on Q105/Tampa or at Z100/NYC playing Todd Rundgren “Bang the...
Mike McVay
Dec 12, 20227 min read
Forecast 2023; Memorable Moments
If you made it to Radio Ink’s Forecast 2023 last week, you know that it was well attended, packed with amazing guests and full of great...
Mike McVay
Dec 5, 20223 min read
Choose Your News
The title alone sounds like a morning show feature where a listener, or morning show cohost, picks a story that the on-air team will talk...
Mike McVay
Nov 28, 20224 min read
Fantasy
“Every man has a place. In his heart, there’s a space and the world can’t erase his fantasies. Take a ride in the sky on our ship,...
Mike McVay
Nov 21, 20223 min read
The Star Programmer of 2023 and Beyond Would Have These Qualities
The year 2022 is drawing to a close. Since the pandemic, the evolution of media has accelerated, and the expectations of listeners,...
Mike McVay
Nov 14, 20223 min read
The Usage and Ubiquity of Radio – Mike McVay
The regrowth of the radio audience is somewhat dependent upon the usage of the medium. Usage is all about where people listen, how they...
Mike McVay
Oct 30, 20223 min read
Rebooting Radio
We all point to the pandemic as the start of an accelerated change for radio, as well as all of media, and many businesses. The evolution...
Mike McVay
Oct 23, 20223 min read
Talent Make the Difference
The most recent NAB/NYC was held last week at the Javits Center. The daylong programming track focused on Artificial Intelligence, the...
Mike McVay
Oct 16, 20224 min read
Coaching Personalities; The Foundation to Winning Radio
Share with your Program Directors; The coaching of talent can make a big and immediate difference in a station’s ratings. Unfortunately,...
Mike McVay
Oct 9, 20226 min read
The Emperor Has No Clothes
The expression “The Emperor has no clothes” comes from Hans Christian Andersen’s folktale titled “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” The tale...
Mike McVay
Oct 2, 20225 min read
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Christmas decorations are already appearing in stores just as Halloween decorations are going up. The merchandising world pushes the...
Mike McVay
Sep 25, 20224 min read
Shake it Off – Mike McVay
Not talking about the song by Taylor Swift, although the message could be the same. October’s arrival signals cooler weather, fall...
Mike McVay
Sep 18, 20223 min read
The Farm Team
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal focused on televisions new approach to use Over the Air (OTA) TV to train talent and expose...
Mike McVay
Sep 11, 20225 min read
Real Time Coaching
The NFL returned this past week. Thursday night kicked off the season and the weekend had a full schedule of games. It was a huge “Couch...
Mike McVay
Sep 4, 20224 min read
Ten Rules for Every Radio Show
1. The show never ends – It’s not a “shift.” It’s a “Show.” When a talent says “Goodbye” it signals that a listener can turn-off the...
Mike McVay
Aug 28, 20225 min read
The Excitement of Media
It’s easy for those of us who’ve been in media for a longtime to forget the feeling of excitement we once had to work in Radio. The...
Mike McVay
Aug 21, 20224 min read
No Excuses
One of my radio friends sent me a text the other night, as he left a concert, sharing his disappointment in what he heard, but didn’t...
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