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NAB SPRING SHOW -LOOKING FOR BUYERS! ANOTHER SAD RIP FOR A GREAT BROADCASTER AND GUY AI PANIC IN THE STREETS AT GOOGLE. FCC STORY YOU WON’T BELIEVE Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!  

CAN STREAMING SAVE LOCAL TV STATIONS…? MEDIACO EGO GETS IN THE WAY OF A CLIENT FOCUSED MESSAGE. SBS FILES AND MARY GETS ANOTHER YEAR AT THE HELM OF A SINKING SHIP!  Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!  

iHEART GETS A NEW RADIO HEAD—-finally! WE SHARE A COUPLE OF CBS RADIO STORIES ARE WE BEING JUST ANALOG GUYS OR IS AUDACY’S NEW STRUCTURE VIABLE? JEFF WARSHAW IS REALLY SHAKING UP THE RADIO BIZ FROM SFO TO  NEBRASKA. Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!  

A couple of weeks ago…we talked about Amazon and Yahoo offering programmatic inventory for iHearts audio products.  We see this as further breakdown in the traditional sales role that radio stations have with their clients… But maybe we are wrong.  Maybe this is the very best way for clients to buy radio and the best way for radio to sell inventory.  Ah…but to find out  we called up our intrepid ad agency/media buying master, Mr. Ed Steenman of Steenman and Associates in Seattle - a man who, when he’s not sailing the turgid waters of the Puget sound he’s handling budgets  for auto groups, dealers  and other retail clients.  Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!  

IN CAR RADIO LISTENING IS UP….IS THAT GOOD NEWS? WHY DO WE HAVE TO SIT THOUGH ‘WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK' BREAKS  IS THE PARAMOUNT DEAL WITH SKYDANCE GOOD FOR CBS TV STATIONS LOTUS ADDS A NEW GM SALEM MOVES TALK STATION FROM 860AM TO 1640AM.  WHY? Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!  

CUMULUS ENTERS THEIR 3RD BANKRUPTCY...this is A SAD ENDING? A TRIBUTE TO TWO LEGENDARY RADIO STATIONS THAT ARE NO MORE DOES IHEART HOLD THE FORMULA FOR THE NEXT LEVEL SALES EFFORT FOR RADIO?  eVEN LOCAL RADIO?  KTLA APPOINTS A NEW  SALES MANAGER AND KEITH AND I DISAGREE BIG TIME ON THE WISDOM OF THE HIRE…… Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!  

We’ve got a special edition of Media Insultant for you today.  And much of what we will talk about today is Evergreen…worth listening to a couple of times… My old friend Keith Shipman - he’s the retiring head of WSAB and is a broadcaster himself with a cluster in Bend, OR.   In a phone call the other day he took us to task.  “You guys really give radio a hard time!  How about a little love?”  And frankly, who better to help us with that than the noted sales and management expert, Lucy RIce.  We've known Lucy for decades and I love her confident swagger and ability to cut through the BS to truth…painful sometimes.  But the truth… Join us for a candid look at the radio sales challenges and some solutions in this Special Edition of Media Insulant.... Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!  

IF SAGA COMM. IS IN PLAY…WHO’S IN THE POOL? OLYMPICS?  THE TENT POLE THAT IS DELIVERING FOR NBC. WE ARE ACCUSED OF GIVING RADIO A HARD TIME. AND THAT IS CORRECT…. ENTRAVISION OUSTS A 25YEAR LEADER… Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!  

RADIO GOT 25% DIGITAL….BUT WE THINK,  MAYBE NOT. RADIO.COM URL SOLD…BUT WHAT FOLLOWS IS JUST WEIRD. TEGNA/NEXSTAR BACK UP TO THE PLATE BUT ARE THE NETWORKS BEING ACED OUT? Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!  

WE ALL WATCHED THE SUPER BOWL BUT HOW DID RADIO ROW PERFORM…? CUMULUS LEAKED AND NIELSEN IS PISSED ABOUT IT… GRAMMYS RATINGS - OLYMPIC RATINGS FOR BETTER OR WORSE Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!  

WITH OUR FAVORITE SEATTLE SEAHAWKS PLAYING THIS WEEKEND IN THE THE BIG GAME…KEITH TAKES A LOOK AT THE DEATH OF “RADIO ROW” FOR SUPER BOWL LE GRETT TO BEASLEY? HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?  AUDACY’S NEW REORG HAS SOME SERIOUS PAIN FOR MARKET MANAGERS. Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!  

Bobby Rich’s Life in your radio…worth reading? MediaCo is getting the old band back together. Another acronym you’ll have to memorize….GEO Consolidation continues…as Cumulus centralizes Kansas radio. Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!  

WHAT WOULD EPHRAM ZIMBALIST JUNIOR SAY ABOUT DAN BONGINO - OUT AT THE FBI BACK TO PODCASTING MEDIACO TRYING TO SPREAD THE BUZZ… STILL QUIET SINCLAIR RAMPS UP THE PRESSURE ON SCRIPPS… AND CUMULUS WINS A BIG ONE IN COURT… Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!  

BROADCASTING SHARING RESOURCES - EVEN WITH THE EVIL COMPETION.   THE OSCARS SAY BUY-BYE TO ABC TV.  CAN ANYONE MAKE MONEY ON YOU TUBE? WE SHARE AN EARWORM.  WARNING!  Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!  

SCRIPPS KINDA EMBARRASES SINCLAIR... HERE COMES THE JUDGE...AND HE SLAPS NIELSEN. MTV.  RUMORS OF YOUR DEMISE ARE GREATLY EXAGERATED… IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE HOLIDAYS...BUT NO GRASS GROWING UNDER JEFF WARSHAW’S FEET… Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.   Comments are always welcome at [email protected]   Thanks for listening!