I've been absent from here recently, dealing with work and helping a couple of sick friends. With each passing year, more people I know get sick or die. This year the chairman of the board of the nonprofit that runs my old college radio station was diagnosed with ALS, and another colleague of mine died of melanoma ( Read more... )

Don't listen to anyone who tells you liberals are the left ( Read more... )

Essentially, I've been immersed in the challenges of our radio station group, Sugar River Media ( Read more... )

See this list? Those are all the radio stations I am dealing with in one form or another. Some of them are listed multiple times, because each listing represents a particular machine and some stations have more than one ( Read more... )

I'm driving myself batty dealing with all these radio stations, ours and other people's ( Read more... )

We just got a $10,000 bill from the Boston Red Sox Radio Network.

I wonder if we get anything like that in ad revenue from the broadcasts, especially after commission.

Rush Limbaugh only charges $900 a quarter.

It was chilly and drizzling in Dover, NH, where I spent most of the day, but 66 (F) and sunny back home in Greater Boston ( Read more... )

I think this is the first evening in a very long time that I haven't had some sort of commitment. I'm still working full time at my consulting business while the radio stations we bought start to generate income ( Read more... )

I've been spending way too much time behind the wheel of my car during the last couple weeks. There have been a number of scary situations: giant piles of snow making it impossible to see oncoming traffic; driving straight into the sun during afternoon rush hour; idiots appearing suddenly in my blind spot; and on one occasion, the car in front of ( Read more... )

The manager running our two Vermont stations sent us an email an hour after we closed on Friday, saying he doesn't want to work in broadcast media any more and, therefore, he was resigning immediately. We knew his stations had been underperforming for a couple years, and had intended to have a talk with him once the dust had settled. But I guess he ( Read more... )