Category: For What It’s Worth…

At this year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas, a group of FCC Commissioners addressed the state of “diversity” in radio. Reportedly, Commissioner Mignon Clyburn proposed the “state of ownership by women and people of color” is “too depressing to review.” Continue reading “Let’s Level the Playing Field, Please!” →

Do you think that just maybe the FCC or Congress or the Obama Administration is out to get the television industry (and shortly thereafter the radio industry)? Does a socialist hate Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck?  Let us study, for a moment, a speech recently delivered by Reed Hundt, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission: In a speech delivered at Columbia University last month, Hundt admitted that between 1994 and 1997, it was his decision to favor the Internet over broadcasting as the one and only “common medium” for the United States. Continue reading “The Demise of Broadcasting?” →

By now, most of you have heard about the bozo in Missouri that insists on running his political advertising filled with hate speech, racial slurs, and anti-Semitic insults. Continue reading “Hate Speech in Advertising” →

So what do you do if an when you get an employee, especially an on-air employee running for office? Do you ask them to quit? Do you lay them off? Our resident H.R. expert doesn’t suggest doing either one.Why look for trouble if you don’t need it? Assuming you have an on-air employee who becomes a “legally qualified candidate”, and assuming he/she is a valuable employee, look for a way to keep that employee employed…just not on the air. Yes, the employee/candidate can try to get waivers from his/her opposing candidates allowing him/her to continue to work provided there is no discussion on-air of the election or related issues, but that’s still asking for problems. Continue reading “Employees Who Are Legally Qualified Candidates” →