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Monday Memo: Sound Bites
By Holland Cooke
Consultant
BLOCK ISLAND, RI — To quote the immortal Yogi Berra: “You can observe a lot by just watching.” And listening! And shoptalk we hear reminds us to be agile WHILE doing-what-only-we-can-do:
“It has the best-best of both worlds.”
SiriusXM CFO Sean Sullivan, telling the recent Deutsche Bank Annual Media, Internet & Telecom Conference how new two-way interactive 360L satellite radio receivers “can offer up other content, including podcasts and other things” such as Pandora, which SiriusXM bought two years ago, and Stitcher, acquired more recently. NOT among “other things:” Local news and personalities, which smart stations continue to offer.
Monday Memo: #Rush4ever
By Holland Cooke
Consultant
BLOCK ISLAND, RI — “Who can replace Rush?” Ask callers, and the unison is, “Nobody can!”
You agree, then pivot: “But somebody MUST…who SHOULD? One, eight hundred…”
All of us in the talk radio family will always owe him. Limbaugh lead the repurposing of an AM band obsoleted after music migrated to FM.
Monday Memo: Cancel Culture Canceled!
By Holland Cooke
Consultant
BLOCK ISLAND, RI — Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? This year, no players were voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. There will be a ceremony in July, welcoming last year’s class, after the 2020 induction ceremony was, like much of life, COVID-canceled.
But after 400+ votes from the Baseball Writers Association of America, no nominee met the 75% threshold. Voters are instructed to look-beyond statistics, and weigh nominees’ “integrity, sportsmanship, and character.” This year’s #3 vote-getter Roger Clemens and #2 Barry Bonds are tainted by ties to performance-enhancing drugs.
