They just called me from "Marketplace".  They wanted some quotes on the new Michael Jackson album. You know it will sell because of pent-up demand, because he died, because it’s the fourth quarter, but that’s not why I’m writing this. Almost two years ago, I got a phone call from Laura Sydell, asking me to […]

What would it take to get you to pay for content? I was planning on making a phone call during my drive to Santa Monica.  But the radio was tuned to Howard Stern and I wanted to find out who had this voice, who had this accent. It turned out to be Mike Ditka. Don’t […]

What do I know about Courteney Cox? She started off as Ian Copeland’s secretary and love interest.  And then she was featured in a Bruce Springsteen video back when we were innocent and didn’t realize she wasn’t a fresh young thing plucked from obscurity, but an actress.  Then she was on "Friends" and became rich […]

I don’t trust research, methodology is key, and is so often suspect, and even worse, research will tell you where you’ve been, not where you’re going, but I point you to this recent study by Edison Research to counteract all the B.S. spewed by traditionalists in this industry as well as the blowhards at terrestrial […]