Talking and writing about sports is a bizarre way to earn a living, but they provide a strange set of wonderful validations – not necessarily from listeners and readers – but from the feeling of accomplishment in finishing a day where fun was had and unique information was shared. I host a daily three-hour radio show on […]
Things that are wrong with sports radio are also wrong with the rest of media, so this headline is way too specific. People in media sadly aren’t the sharpest tacks in the drawer, so we tend to not see life as a collaborative and fun exploit filled with adventure and productive endeavors. Because we in radio […]
by Kent Sterling Being a radio producer is not a career destination; it’s a step toward something else – an opportunity to host, sell, or manage. So when my producer for the first 16 months of my show, an affable and diligent young man named Nick Bosak, told me he was leaving the show to […]
by Kent Sterling So I’m watching a movie called “Casting by” on HBO last night about casting directors in Hollywood, and my mind kept flashing back to building talk radio stations. In movies, the quality of a film is dependent upon a number of factors, but the most important is the selection of the actors […]
by Kent Sterling Anthony Schottle of the Indianapolis Business Journal does a great job covering media in central Indiana. He’s accurate, fair, and actually transcribes quotes accurately – a major point of differentiation between him and several of the other guys doing the same job in other markets. When he called on Thursday to talk […]
by Kent Sterling There are a lot of people in radio who resent the grind of the job, and feel preyed upon because they need to deliver relevance to an audience with specific expectations for a show. Whatever else I may be, I will never be one of those people. I have been a weekday […]
by Kent Sterling The challenge of creating from whole cloth a three-hour sportstalk radio show each weekday is much more fun than I thought it would be – and I thought it would be a riot. That is what surprised me most during the first week of hosting the Kent Sterling Show (catchy name) Monday-Friday […]
by Kent Sterling One person talks, and another listens. One person reveals, and another evaluates. One person says something funny, and another laughs. One person shares perspective, and another thinks. That’s radio. It’s not quite that simple. If you are like me, I talk back when I listen to the radio. I look crazy as […]