Media Insultant
Keith Samuels and Jackson Weaver, two media executives opine on all things media - radio, TV, cable, print, and digital. Both have long careers in radio, TV, digital and print and are not short on opinions in this tumultuous time. All opinions are theirs but happy to hear yours too! Video version available on Vimeo. New episodes each Wednesday. jackson@intownmedia.com and www.intownmedia.com
Episodes
A MYSTERIOUS RADIO STATION SALE
WARSHAW WALKS FROM MORE RADIO STATIONS
WE CLARIFY OUR RADIO STATION OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE SETTING.
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management. Videos are...
WE MAY HAVE UNDERESTIMATED BYRON ALLEN’S EFFORTS TO TAKE ON YOU TUBE…BUT IT WON’T BE EASY…
FCC ADDS EXPENSIVE BURDENS TO RADIO AND TV
HUBBARD REBRANDS…OR BRANDS…OR IS JUST STATING THE OBVIOUS…WE AREN’T SURE…
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscap...
WHAT’S THE DIGITAL SALES TIP HIDDEN IN BORRELL’S RECENT REPORT…?
BYRON ALLEN SAYS, WHAT THE HELL. LET’S TAKE ON YOU TUBE.
THE IHEART SIRUIS TALKS HIT A SNAG…AND THE ENEMY MAY BE RADIO.
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily...
JOHNNY CARSON HAS AN ANNIVERSARY.
COX MEDIA GROUP APPARENTLY IS ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL
TED TURNER TAKES OUT THE TRASH
SBS/SALEM RESTRUCETURE
WTOP’S EXTRAORDINARY LEADER RETIRES…
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or b...
LOTS OF JUSTIFIED TRIBUTES TO TED TURNER…
WHAT IS URBAN ONE DOING BUYING MORE RADIO STATIONS THIS CLOSE TO BK.
IS A SELLING GM A GOOD IDEA?
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and mana...
NEVER ONE TO BE BASHFUL - THE NFL PUTS THE SQUEEZE ON!
CUMULUS IS SADLY ABOUT OVER…
AUDACY BOOSTS IT’S SPORTS PRESENCE…AT THE EXPENSE OF LEGENDARY RADIO.
WHAT TO SAY WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, NO ONE LISTENS TO THE RADIO
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV ...
YIKES…GM HAS PULLED HD RADIO FROM THEIR CARS.
OUR AUDIENCE CHIMES IN ON HOW TO DEAL WITH THE #1 OBJECTION FOR RADIO SALES PEOPLE…
IHEART AND SIRIUS HAS US SCRATCHING OUR HEADS…
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media tha...
NAB SPRING SHOW -LOOKING FOR BUYERS!
ANOTHER SAD RIP FOR A GREAT BROADCASTER AND GUY
AI PANIC IN THE STREETS AT GOOGLE.
FCC STORY YOU WON’T BELIEVE
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and mana...
CAN STREAMING SAVE LOCAL TV STATIONS…?
MEDIACO EGO GETS IN THE WAY OF A CLIENT FOCUSED MESSAGE.
SBS FILES AND MARY GETS ANOTHER YEAR AT THE HELM OF A SINKING SHIP!
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial...
iHEART GETS A NEW RADIO HEAD—-finally!
WE SHARE A COUPLE OF CBS RADIO STORIES
ARE WE BEING JUST ANALOG GUYS OR IS AUDACY’S NEW STRUCTURE VIABLE?
JEFF WARSHAW IS REALLY SHAKING UP THE RADIO BIZ FROM SFO TO NEBRASKA.
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primar...
A couple of weeks ago…we talked about Amazon and Yahoo offering programmatic inventory for iHearts audio products. We see this as further breakdown in the traditional sales role that radio stations have with their clients…
But maybe we are wrong. Maybe this is the very best way for clients to buy radio and the best way for radio to sell inventory. Ah…but to find out we called up our intre...
IN CAR RADIO LISTENING IS UP….IS THAT GOOD NEWS?
WHY DO WE HAVE TO SIT THOUGH ‘WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK' BREAKS
IS THE PARAMOUNT DEAL WITH SKYDANCE GOOD FOR CBS TV STATIONS
LOTUS ADDS A NEW GM
SALEM MOVES TALK STATION FROM 860AM TO 1640AM. WHY?
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landsca...
CUMULUS ENTERS THEIR 3RD BANKRUPTCY...this is A SAD ENDING?
A TRIBUTE TO TWO LEGENDARY RADIO STATIONS THAT ARE NO MORE
DOES IHEART HOLD THE FORMULA FOR THE NEXT LEVEL SALES EFFORT FOR RADIO? eVEN LOCAL RADIO?
KTLA APPOINTS A NEW SALES MANAGER AND KEITH AND I DISAGREE BIG TIME ON THE WISDOM OF THE HIRE……
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ...
We’ve got a special edition of Media Insultant for you today. And much of what we will talk about today is Evergreen…worth listening to a couple of times…
My old friend Keith Shipman - he’s the retiring head of WSAB and is a broadcaster himself with a cluster in Bend, OR.
In a phone call the other day he took us to task. “You guys really give radio a hard time! How about a litt...
IF SAGA COMM. IS IN PLAY…WHO’S IN THE POOL?
OLYMPICS? THE TENT POLE THAT IS DELIVERING FOR NBC.
WE ARE ACCUSED OF GIVING RADIO A HARD TIME. AND THAT IS CORRECT….
ENTRAVISION OUSTS A 25YEAR LEADER…
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily...
RADIO GOT 25% DIGITAL….BUT WE THINK, MAYBE NOT.
RADIO.COM URL SOLD…BUT WHAT FOLLOWS IS JUST WEIRD.
TEGNA/NEXSTAR BACK UP TO THE PLATE BUT ARE THE NETWORKS BEING ACED OUT?
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent...
WE ALL WATCHED THE SUPER BOWL BUT HOW DID RADIO ROW PERFORM…?
CUMULUS LEAKED AND NIELSEN IS PISSED ABOUT IT…
GRAMMYS RATINGS - OLYMPIC RATINGS FOR BETTER OR WORSE
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial...
WITH OUR FAVORITE SEATTLE SEAHAWKS PLAYING THIS WEEKEND IN THE THE BIG GAME…KEITH TAKES A LOOK AT THE DEATH OF “RADIO ROW” FOR SUPER BOWL
LE GRETT TO BEASLEY? HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
AUDACY’S NEW REORG HAS SOME SERIOUS PAIN FOR MARKET MANAGERS.
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current medi...
Bobby Rich’s Life in your radio…worth reading?
MediaCo is getting the old band back together.
Another acronym you’ll have to memorize….GEO
Consolidation continues…as Cumulus centralizes Kansas radio.
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and TV primar...
WHAT WOULD EPHRAM ZIMBALIST JUNIOR SAY ABOUT DAN BONGINO - OUT AT THE FBI BACK TO PODCASTING
MEDIACO TRYING TO SPREAD THE BUZZ… STILL QUIET
SINCLAIR RAMPS UP THE PRESSURE ON SCRIPPS…
AND CUMULUS WINS A BIG ONE IN COURT…
Media Insultant is produced each Wednesday as Jackson Dell Weaver & Keith Samuels offer comments, ideas and sometimes snarky comments about the current media landscape. They focus on radio and T...
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