The entire Metro Traffic division shuttered. 

Many medium size markets hit by massive firings. 

Here is team coverage from my network of courageous news sources on the ground at Clear Channel.

The real story of what is going down. How long before it happens again.

If you are a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the content.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  Are they done now?  How long before it happens again?

2.  Look into Clear Channel’s RIF Game Plan to see why PDs have increasingly become expendable.

3.  Chilling eyewitness account:  A former employee familiar with GSelector beta reports on all the things corporate will soon be able to do without a program director or local talent.  In his own words!

4.  Clear Channel employees still don’t think corporate will fire PDs in major markets.  They need to read this.

5.  The end game – how many live PDs per market.  Three?  One?  None?  I’ve got Clear Channel’s new minimum number for you.

6.  UGLY!  A report of four police squad cars called to a major market Clear Channel facility while the firings were happening systemwide.  I’ll tell you where.

The answers begin here.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

Join our witness protection program:  the smartest, safest newstip network – 100% anonymity guaranteed – NewsTip Hotline.  You’ve got my admiration and thanks.  I’ve got your back.

Media Solutions Lab 13 set for January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ. 

Throughout life, people who get hit with bad luck turn it into success and wealth.  What they know that we can now go to school on in my book “Out of Bad Comes Good – The Advantages of Disadvantages” here.  Buy the paperback or download now for under $9.99 here

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter. 

Connect on Facebook.

When the general manager of a sports team gives a public vote of confidence to his embattled manager, the manager usually gets fired shortly thereafter.

Yesterday, Clear Channel’s “general manager” Bob Pittman gave his star a rousing public vote of confidence.

Guess what’s happening next.

If you are a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the content.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  Limbaugh haters are about to get something even better handed to them than Rush being fired.  Here’s what it is – and it’s going to happen.

2.  The plan that Limbaugh’s detractors are using that is still working – showing no signs of letting up. 

3.  What made Pittman finally make a public statement in defense of Rush.

4.  Oh, and Cumulus got caught lying about the affiliates it has lined up to be the more conversational and less confrontational Limbaugh replacement.  Tricky!

5.  How long before Limbaugh non-Clear Channel affiliates will be able to last without making any money.  

6.  Prediction:  what Rush Limbaugh is likely to do next now that advertisers are still not coming back and Pittman says his job is secure.  Lookout!

The answers begin here.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

Join our witness protection program:  the smartest, safest newstip network – 100% anonymity guaranteed – NewsTip Hotline. 

My next Media Solutions Lab is January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ. 

Preview my book “Out of Bad Comes Good – The Advantages of Disadvantages” here.

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter. 

Connect on Facebook.

The most brutal of the radio groups are trying to hire back the talent they let go – even paid off with severance pay – but you won’t believe what their new deal is.

If you are a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the content.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  A major consolidator had to eat crow and offer at least 5 fired air people their jobs back even as they were browbeating employees at one of their clusters. 

2.  Another operator fired over 20 people in one cluster last year alone.  Here’s the package they offered some of their ex-employees to get them to return to work.

3.  Cumulus paid out the last of their “Stay Bonuses” last week – $50,000 to remain at their Citadel station for six months after Cumulus took over.  Now what?

4.  A report on what happened when one key big market sales executive was hired back after being fired from Cumulus.

5.  Even with the ascent of voice tracking and syndication, have we seen the end of wanton firings as consolidators discover that they can’t make it on that alone?  Or not?  Our read on the situation.

The answers begin here.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

Join our witness protection program:  the smartest, safest newstip network – 100% anonymity guaranteed – NewsTip Hotline. 

My next Media Solutions Lab is January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ.  The year ahead in radio, music and digital.

Can career chaos propel you into a better place?  Find out here.

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter. 

Connect on Facebook.

There is now evidence from people who work at Clear Channel that a massive purging of program directors is coming.

New technology being implemented currently is going to make it possible for Clear Channel to rid itself of program directors in all but the most critical situations.

There are signs that are apparent to those who work in programming at Clear Channel and I will share their views on when, how and where these changes will take place.

If you are a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the content.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  The giveaway – one thing Clear Channel is doing almost everywhere that signals an end to program directors except in the most competitive situations.

2.  Who will be spared and who will lose their PDs.

3.  The time frame is rather urgent – maybe more urgent than a lot of people in Clear Channel think.  I’ll zero in on it to give the best guess as to when these changes will take place.

4.  The thing that emboldens consolidators like Clear Channel to make such a drastic move to rid themselves of a once indispensable part of every radio station.

5.  There is a ray of hope – but it may be temporary – until all the Clear Channel stations make the change. 

The answers begin here.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

Join our witness protection program:  the smartest, safest newstip network – 100% anonymity guaranteed – NewsTip Hotline. 

My next Media Solutions Lab is January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ.  The year ahead in radio, music and digital.

Never fear life’s disadvantages again – in fact, you’ll relish them, put them to work for you and be happier and more successful than ever.  Discover how in my book “Out of Bad Comes Good – The Advantages of Disadvantages” here.  Buy the paperback or download now for under $9.99 here

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter. 

Connect on Facebook.

One month since Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and “prostitute”.

Lots has happened.

Cumulus is now insulting Limbaugh in marketing its Rush substitute, Mike Huckabee.

Why Clear Channel still hasn’t said a peep and how they are thinking this thing eventually plays out.

But big trouble is still ahead.

If you are already a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the content.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  Rush Limbaugh’s people have been counterattacking lately by blaming accusers of trying to impede freedom of speech.  Is that strategy beginning to payoff?

2.  Rush has dinged talk radio, no doubt, but look what Cumulus is doing to the genre in trying to sell their new Mike Huckabee Show as a better alternative. 

3.  How long before the renegade Limbaugh advertisers return?  Here’s an up to the minute head count.

4.  First look at Huckabee’s affiliate lineup and ad rates.

5.  The chances of Huckabee hurting Rush Limbaugh and what will hurt him even more.

6.  Prediction:  when the controversy will blow over, when his advertisers will return and what happens next to Limbaugh’s ratings.

The answers begin here.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

Join our witness protection program:  the smartest, safest newstip network – 100% anonymity guaranteed – NewsTip Hotline. 

Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday’s 90^th Anniversary of WIP Philadelphia celebration that I was honored to moderate and emcee.  Great radio came alive again if only for a few hours.  It makes you appreciate the importance of live and local management, talent and sales. 

My next Media Solutions Lab is January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ.  It’s about media solutions.

Never fear life’s disadvantages again – in fact, you’ll relish them, put them to work for you and be happier and more successful than ever.  Discover how in my book “Out of Bad Comes Good – The Advantages of Disadvantages” here.  Buy the paperback or download now for under $9.99 here

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter. 

Connect on Facebook.

You’re not going to believe this but Cumulus is now posting notices that officially put their employees on notice they are being spied on.

But not all employees are taking this outrage sitting down.

An eyewitness report from a newstipster in our witness protection program is also spying on them.

Here’s what we’ve found out.

If you are already a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the content.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  An actual picture of the Cumulus spy notification posted in the break room of a Cumulus cluster.  Rod Stewart was right – every picture tells a story.

2.  The market where this sign is currently posted to serve as an apparent legal notice to employees thinking of suing Cumulus for invasion of privacy.

3.  How the Cumulus spy cam works and what Atlanta gets to see not only when sales meetings are being held but also when they are not being held.

4.  One vital employee quit in the spy cluster recently after almost 10 years.  Wait until you hear what Cumulus lost.

5.  This is the market run by Lew Dickey’s new best friend.  How’s that recent firing of local air people working out for you?  We’ll breakout the ratings and see.

The answers begin here.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

Join our witness protection program:  the smartest, safest newstip network – 100% anonymity guaranteed – NewsTip Hotline. 

My next Media Solutions Lab is January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ.  It’s about media solutions.

Never fear life’s disadvantages again – in fact, you’ll relish them, put them to work for you and be happier and more successful than ever.  Discover how in my book “Out of Bad Comes Good – The Advantages of Disadvantages” here.  Buy the paperback or download now for under $9.99 here

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter. 

Connect on Facebook.

Radio’s new obsession with pricing advertising the way airlines price their seats is starting to have deleterious results.

And it doesn’t help that the industry’s number one group, Clear Channel, is fully operational with a national rate pricing system that actually pressures radio rates down.

Radio One CEO Al Liggins blasted Clear Channel for that approach late last week but there are positive things that can be done now to offset the effects of selling down rates. 

If you are already a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the content.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  Media buyers are increasingly emboldened – they are squeezing radio rates on a good day even without Clear Channel’s bouncing rate card, but here is one specific thing buyers will pay a premium for.  Do it.

2.  A pro-active way for radio owners to not only hold the maximum rate but actually increase it among current advertisers.  It’s being done right now.  I’ll tell you where, who and how.

3.  Distance your station from rate droppers with the solution I explain in this piece is easy to implement and fast working.

4.  And, be careful of selling digital along side of radio -- here’s how buyers have wised up to getting top rate for both.  From now on rate cutters will be on their own.

The answers begin here.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

Join our witness protection program:  the smartest, safest newstip network – 100% anonymity guaranteed – NewsTip Hotline. 

My next Media Solutions Lab is January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ.  It’s about media solutions.

Be inspired by people who have turned adversity into success and happiness.  Find out how in my book “Out of Bad Comes Good – The Advantages of Disadvantages” here.  Buy the paperback or download now for under $9.99 here

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter. 

Connect on Facebook.

Updated Version – new information

In the trade press, the firing last week of a Memphis market manager was described as a routine change in management, but it was far from that.

In fact, they left out two key elements.

That after doing all their firing and cutting back, Clear Channel wasted him in the worst way for all his blind loyalty to the Evil Empire. 

And, even as they threatened their surviving employees with their jobs in a meeting right after the management change, Clear Channel was simultaneously trying to rehire people they fired months and even years ago – people who they also threatened on the way out the door.

Here’s a first person account of the real story:

If you are already a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the story.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  Brutal firing tactics – how one of “Hogan’s Henchmen” axed the market manager who until last week was their henchman.

2.  Details of the 7-minute ensuing staff meeting that sounded like it came right out of the Bill Bungeroth Cumulus playbook not Clear Channel’s – a meeting in which employees were insulted and threatened.  I’ve got the quote.

3.  The real reason Clear Channel may have acted in cold blood and believe it or not it had a lot less to do with underachieving than something else.

4.  Lew Dickey is kicking Clear Channel’s butt in Memphis and the way Dickey is managing this market is unlike how he runs his others.  I’ll explain.

5.  Fired employees revenge – the Clear Channel station that fired four key air people last fall, WDIA is trying to hire them back even as they were threatening others last week.  The dysfunctional details.   

The answers begin here.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

Join our witness protection program:  the smartest, safest newstip network – 100% anonymity guaranteed – NewsTip Hotline. 

My next Media Solutions Lab is January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ.  It’s about media solutions.

Never fear life’s disadvantages again – in fact, you’ll relish them, put them to work for you and be happier and more successful than ever.  Discover how in my book “Out of Bad Comes Good – The Advantages of Disadvantages” here.  Buy the paperback or download now for under $9.99 here

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter. 

Connect on Facebook.

New reports from inside Townsquare Media indicate that the company is beefing up its revenue stream, especially digital, for what some managers say is a poorly kept secret – a 2014 merger with Cumulus.

Cumulus will no doubt make another acquisition if not more than one prior to any potential Townsquare merger.

Here’s what I’ve learned that you will want to know.

If you are a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the content.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  What market managers have been told that no one else knows about the possible exit strategy for investment bank Oaktree.

2.  The wallet cards given out to managers that tell the story as a constant reminder of where Townsquare is heading.  I’ll tell you what’s printed on the cards that managers are told to carry with them.

3.  Plan B – if Cumulus doesn’t pay a pretty penny for Townsquare. 

4.  How some say Townsquare’s digital exit plan includes some fuzzy math when it comes to digital dollars vs. radio dollars.  Read it in a top executive’s own words.

5.  You won’t believe the percentage of business Townsquare is mandating by 2014 that is not to be radio income.  Go ahead -- take a guess.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

Join our witness protection program:  the smartest, safest newstip network – 100% anonymity guaranteed – NewsTip Hotline. 

My next Media Solutions Lab is January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ.  It’s about media solutions.

Never fear life’s disadvantages again – in fact, you’ll relish them, put them to work for you and be happier and more successful than ever.  Discover how in my book “Out of Bad Comes Good – The Advantages of Disadvantages” here.  Buy the paperback or download now for under $9.99 here

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter. 

Connect on Facebook.

Bain Channel has hired a top public relations crisis management expert to advise them in the Rush Limbaugh controversy.

Limbaugh’s neither playing defense nor offense.

He’s looking for a game change.

If you are a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the content.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  What the Bain PR whiz is likely telling Rush and Clear Channel to make this all go away.

2.  The two words you will be hearing from now on from Rush and his handlers instead of “slut” and “prostitute”.

3.  The surprising role social networking will play in the comeback of Limbaugh.

4.  How Clear Channel will manipulate traditional media to come out ahead.

5.  Forget paying all those fees to that PR whiz, here’s a surefire way to make Rush good again with his advertisers and safe from his detractors who are trying to take him down.

The answers begin here.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

Join our witness protection program:  the smartest, safest newstip network – 100% anonymity guaranteed – NewsTip Hotline. 

My next Media Solutions Lab is January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ.  Save the date.

Turn adversity into success.  Read a chapter of “Out of Bad Comes Good – The Advantages of Disadvantages” here.  Buy the paperback or download now for under $9.99 here

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter. 

Connect on Facebook.

Cumulus announced yesterday another unprofitable year in 2011 and not much hope until at least July this year.

Now according to sources in various markets Cumulus is going to crack down on the real culprits for their poor performance – their employees.

If you are a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the content.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  Who is coming to take you away, Ha-haa! – starting next week.  Which Cumulus workers should look out!

2.  Those “Stay Bonuses” are due to be paid by Friday to Citadel sellers who agreed to stay on for 6 months with Cumulus.  Then, guess what happens.

3.  The surprising results of massive Citadel firings the past 6 months.

4.  Reducing sales commissions and eliminating local programming are now over at Cumulus, right?

5.  The Huckabee abortion – my sources close to one major market says Cumulus doesn’t have the balls to replace Limbaugh’s advertising (even as it declines) with Huckabee’s lack of income.  Media buyers tell all.

The answers begin here.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

Join our witness protection program:  the smartest, safest newstip network – 100% anonymity guaranteed – NewsTip Hotline. 

My next Media Solutions Lab is January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ.  Save the date.

Turn adversity into success.  Read a chapter of “Out of Bad Comes Good – The Advantages of Disadvantages” here.  Buy the paperback or download now for under $9.99 here

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter. 

Connect on Facebook.

Before you say “hogwash”, remember it’s March 8^th, do you know where Lew Dickey is?

Well, okay – it’s not Lew Dickey – kind of, sort of.  I’ll explain.

What we’ve been seeing at Cox lately shows a company that to me at least is looking toward the exit.  Let me tell you how this may play out.

If you are a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the content.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  The most likely buyer – the best fit.

2.  Plan B – who might be interested if Cox decides to sell and divvy up the stations to more than one buyer.  As you’ll see, this gets very interesting.

3.  The radio groups that are not likely to get to first base with Cox if they become a seller. 

4.  Have you heard the rumor on the street that Cox is up to something big?  I’ve heard it, too – and I’m hearing a time frame.  Sit down.

5.  Wait!  Could Cox pull a reverse pivot and buy an existing radio group?  Here is the over/under on that because something is up with Cox.

The answers begin here.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

The smartest, safest newstip network – 100% anonymity guaranteed – NewsTip Hotline

See me live in Philadelphia as I moderate and emcee the 90^th Anniversary of WIP, Philadelphia with Dick Carr, Howard Eskin, Mel Stewart, Tom Lamaine, Bill McCloskey, Tom Moran, Bob Russo, Bill St. James, Dean Tyler, Marc Rayfield and via phone Allan Hotlen.  Plus a few stories about my time working at one of America’s great radio stations.  Open to the public.  Lunch is $25.  The Broadcast Pioneers Luncheon 12 noon at the Bala Golf Club March 21^st.  For reservations call (856) 365-5600.

Next Media Solutions Lab is January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ.   Save the date.  You deserve the best media intelligence.

If you’re looking for a new job or want to change careers, see the chapter on “Career Chaos” in my book Out of Bad Comes Good – The Advantages of Disadvantages.  I’ll show you how to put together one page that is better than a resume and how it will put you ahead of other candidates. All the details on how to do it plus build your confidence.  Sample a chapter here.  Buy the paperback or download now for under $9.99 here

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter.  

Connect on Facebook.

Rush Limbaugh and Clear Channel are playing with us.

We think the blowup over Sandra Fluke is about social justice and common decency.

But they know better.

Look at how they are handling this – it’s a promotional scheme out of the Randy Michaels dirty tricks playbook.

Here’s the backstory you’re not hearing about Clear Channel + Rush Limbaugh or as I call it Clear Channel’s new Media + Entertainment.

If you are a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the content.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  Quick!  What’s worse than Rush Limbaugh losing 20 advertisers?

2.  What about the Cumulus plan to make Mike Huckabee Mike Wannabe, the cheaper Limbaugh replacement.  Now will it work?

3.  Clear Channel’s aggressive ad revolt defense explained. 

4.  Which competitor is benefiting most from Rush Limbaugh’s troubles?  I’ll bet you a Philly cheesesteak you can’t guess. 

5.  What will happen next?  How will it end?  My surprising predictions in chronological order from now to a month from now.

The answers begin here.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

When you see or hear news, contact the Inside Music Media NewsTip Hotline in strict confidence.

Come see me live as I moderate and emcee the 90^th Anniversary of WIP, Philadelphia with Dick Carr, Howard Eskin, Mel Stewart, Tom Lamaine, Bill McCloskey, Tom Moran, Bob Russo, Bill St. James, Dean Tyler, Marc Rayfield and via phone Allan Hotlen.  Plus a few stories about my time working at one of America’s great radio stations.  Open to the public.  Lunch is $25.  The Broadcast Pioneers Luncheon 12 noon at the Bala Golf Club March 21^st.  For reservations call (856) 365-5600.

Next Media Solutions Lab is January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ.   Save the date.  You deserve the best media intelligence.

If you’re looking for a new job or want to change careers, see the chapter on “Career Chaos” in my book Out of Bad Comes Good – The Advantages of Disadvantages.  I’ll show you how to put together one page that is better than a resume and how it will put you ahead of other candidates. All the details on how to do it plus build your confidence.  Sample a chapter here.  Buy the paperback or download now for under $9.99 here

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter. 

Connect on Facebook.

A few weeks back I tipped you on the Cumulus plan to start its own traffic service so it can be more like Clear Channel and get a piece of the revenue pie.

Cumulus officially made the announcement yesterday.

So, if you’re wondering what big plans Cumulus has next, here they are:

If you are a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the content.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  More firings but in this specific sales category.  I have evidence that Cumulus is recruiting for your replacement right now.

2.  Katz – Lew Dickey has a better idea. Wait until you hear it.

3.  Jan Jeffries, the national programming chief  – out to pasture.  Here’s the new deal with Jeffries. 

4.  Traffic – they announced yesterday a partnership with Radiate to handle Cumulus traffic in its top 75 markets but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

5.  Give Lew Dickey 22 minutes and wait until you see what he is launching next.

The answers begin here.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

The smartest, safest newstip network – 100% anonymity guaranteed – NewsTip Hotline

See me live as I MC the 90^th Anniversary of WIP, Philadelphia and recount my own experiences for the Broadcast Pioneers at the Bala Golf Club March 21^st at 12 noon.  Open to the public.  Lunch is $25.  Reservations can be made by calling 856-365-5600.

Next Media Solutions Lab is January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ.   Please save the date.  You deserve the best media intelligence.

Making your own good luck, how to bat .406 on everything you try, control what messages get into your psyche, how to beat out everyone else for that next job by doing this one thing on one page, surviving divorce and putting together a game plan that makes you powerful, positive and purposeful.  Read a chapter of “Out of Bad Comes Good – The Advantages of Disadvantages” here.  Buy the paperback or download now for under $9.99 here

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter – I post free updates all day that make you smarter.

Connect on Facebook.

Yesterday NBC News Radio was announced.  It means nothing – just a replacement to the CNN Radio service that is shutting down April 1.

What’s of major magnitude – an 8 on the Radio Richter Scale – is that Comcast wants to be in the radio business in a big way and they are entering into a courtship with Clear Channel and Dial Global.

The repercussions will shake up the radio business.

If you are a subscriber, thank you for joining our group.  Just click through and unlock the content.

If you’ve been thinking about subscribing and would like to access this story, let me tell you what you will get.

1.  The reason NBC, owned by Comcast, is now so hot to be a major player in radio.  Remember, NBC got out of radio under GE.  What changed?

2.  How Dial Global stuck it to Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman who I wrote this week would like to get Comcast to buy them.  Here’s my view of Dial Global’s strategic move against Pittman.

3.  This is radio incest at its best – the same investment groups tend to own a piece of each other and by doing these cross pollinated deals it’s like marrying their cousin.  Well, take a look at the shotgun wedding that is in the works here.

4.  So if Pittman has the inside track – as I’m saying – why is Comcast now getting into bed with Dial Global? 

5.  The end game.  What Pittman wants.  What Dial Global wants.  And who is in the driver’s seat.

The answers begin here.

If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (1,400 pieces) and get daily email delivery, click “read more” for your choices. 

The smartest, safest newstip network – 100% anonymity guaranteed – click here for my NewsTip Hotline.

See me live as I MC the 90^th Anniversary of WIP, Philadelphia and recount my own experiences for the Broadcast Pioneers at the Bala Golf Club March 21^st at 12 noon.  Open to the public.  Lunch is $25.  Reservations: 856-365-5600.

Next Media Solutions Lab is January 30-31, 2013 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ.  Save the dates.  Great pricing is coming soon.

Read about the advantages of disadvantages, three steps to a meaningful life, how to gain control through submission, The Jealousy Diet, The Shame Game and the Happiness Formula (plus 7 more life changing concepts) in my new book “Out of Bad Comes Good – The Advantages of Disadvantages” here.  Buy the paperback or download now for under $9.99 here

Talk to me privately here.

Converse with me on Twitter. 

Connect on Facebook.