Media Insultant

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 management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

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 primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

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 that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

NAB SPRING SHOW -LOOKING FOR BUYERS!ANOTHER SAD RIP FOR A GREAT BROADCASTER AND GUYAI PANIC IN THE STREETS AT GOOGLE.FCC STORY YOU WON’T BELIEVEMedia 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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

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 to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

iHEART GETS A NEW RADIO HEAD—-finally!WE SHARE A COUPLE OF CBS RADIO STORIESARE 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 primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

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 intrepid ad agency/media buying master, Mr. Ed Steenman of Steenman and Associates in Seattle - a man who, when he’s not sailing the turgid waters of the Puget sound he’s handling budgets  for auto groups, dealers  and other retail clients. 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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

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 STATIONSLOTUS ADDS A NEW GMSALEM 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 landscape. They focus on radio and TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

CUMULUS ENTERS THEIR 3RD BANKRUPTCY...this is A SAD ENDING?A TRIBUTE TO TWO LEGENDARY RADIO STATIONS THAT ARE NO MOREDOES 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, 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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

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 little love?” And frankly, who better to help us with that than the noted sales and management expert, Lucy RIce.  We've known Lucy for decades and I love her confident swagger and ability to cut through the BS to truth…painful sometimes.  But the truth…Join us for a candid look at the radio sales challenges and some solutions in this Special Edition of Media Insulant....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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

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 - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

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 or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

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 WORSEMedia 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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

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 BOWLLE 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 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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

Bobby Rich’s Life in your radio…worth reading?MediaCo is getting the old band back together.Another acronym you’ll have to memorize….GEOConsolidation 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 primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

WHAT WOULD EPHRAM ZIMBALIST JUNIOR SAY ABOUT DAN BONGINO - OUT AT THE FBI BACK TO PODCASTINGMEDIACO TRYING TO SPREAD THE BUZZ… STILL QUIETSINCLAIR 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 TV primarily - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

BROADCASTING SHARING RESOURCES - EVEN WITH THE EVIL COMPETION.  THE OSCARS SAY BUY-BYE TO ABC TV. CAN ANYONE MAKE MONEY ON YOU TUBE?WE SHARE AN EARWORM.  WARNING! 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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

SCRIPPS KINDA EMBARRASES SINCLAIR...HERE COMES THE JUDGE...AND HE SLAPS NIELSEN.MTV.  RUMORS OF YOUR DEMISE ARE GREATLY EXAGERATED…IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE HOLIDAYS...BUT NO GRASS GROWING UNDER JEFF WARSHAW’S FEET…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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

This week we deviate from our normal format and resurrect our annual Ode to the Holidays with our poet lauret, Tony Bollen.  If you're a regular, you've heard Tony's tributes to both radio and the holidays in the past.  Well this year is a new treat as he brings up an old poem for our Christmas pleasure.  Enjoy! Have a great holiday - and we'll see you back next year!  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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

MEDIACO IS TRIPPING UP AGAIN…OR JUST DON’T KNOW HOW THIS WORKS?VALIDATION OF MY UPPER FUNNEL SALE MODEL FOR RADIO - I PROMISE i WON’T SAY I TOLD YOU SO…CONNOISSEURS RECENT SUCKING UP ALPHA MEDIA GOT US THINKING ABOUT HOW ALPHA EVEN GOT THERE…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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

TRUMP IS CONFUSED ABOUT LICENSES FOR TV NETWORKS…TWO BIG TELEVISION M&A DEALS ARE IN SOME JEOPARDY…IHEART ISSUES A WEIRD AI GUARANTEE.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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

THE WIZARD OF WESTPORT IS MAKING RADIO INTERESTING AGAIN!WE THINK RADIO IS FIGHTING THE WRONG BATTLE!BONNEVILLE STARTS A REGIONAL  SPORTS RADIO NETWORK…AH…AND THE REASON FOR THAT????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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

EVERYONE IS SELLING EVERYTHINGAI HELPS RADIO HOW?WE MISSED FORECAST - BUT STILL HAVE AN OPINION.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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

IS LOCAL MEDIA JUST ONE AMAZON CLICK AWAY FROM OBLIVION? (3:40) iHEART SFO - KEITH STARTED PULLING THE STRING AND INTERESTING THINGS KEEP POPPING OUT….(15:17)CUMULUS CONTINUES THE SLIDE…AND YA GOTTA WONDER WHEN WILL IT BOTTOM OUT…? (12:10)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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

NO ONE SEEMS TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT WASTE - THE MONEY JUST KEEPS FLOWING (8:10)FDA RATTLES WITH A POTENTIAL BAN ON TV AND RADIO ADS. (13:12)EMF UNFOLDS FINANCIALS - KICK BUTT (4:15) 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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

WHO’S GOING TO BLINK FIRST? CUMULUS TAKES ON NIELSEN IN WHAT SOME CALL A GAME OF CHICKEN! (7:55)CONNOISEUR HAS A DEAL FOR YOU! (2:09)WE GIVE SAGA COMMUNICATIONS A SOLID FIST BUMP  ON THEIR MOVES THIS WEEK… (18:48)IF THERE IS A FLY IN MY SOUP…DO i WANT THE MRC TO TELL ME?  (16:50)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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

GO BIG OR GO HOME.  THAT’S WHAT SAGA IS SAYING!(17:45)MORE LAYOFFS - AH…NO FURTHER COMMENT (7:10)A SURPRISING DEAL THE WIZARD OF WESTPORT STRIKES A BIG ONE (1:20)FCC COMMISSIONER CARR HAS A DEAL FOR YOU!…(20:04)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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

IT’S ALWAYS BEEN THERE BUT THE KIMMEL DEBACLE PUTS FURTHER STRAIN ON THE NETWORK STATION RELATIONSHIPS…(1:25)RADIO M&A IS …TO PUT IT MILDLY, VERY QUIET. IS THIS THE QUIET BEFORE THE STORM>?? (15:17)RADIO GROUP SALEM SEEMS TO BE SHIFTING GEARS…(19.57)WELCOME TO our podcast focused on radio, TV and other local media from Safeway bulletin boards to direct mail.    IJackson Dell Weaver is in the Coachella Valley in La Quinta east of Palm Springs…  - and co-host - coming from the hills of  Hollywood…Mr. Keith Samuels.  Together We  welcome you to the Wednesday October 8th  Episode of Media Insultant….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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

This is a SPECIAL EDITION of Media Insultant.  WIth budgeting season here we asked Gerry Tabio and Sally Beamer of Creative Resources Group to give us some guidance on budgeting in these challenging times.  And they seriously recommend stop focusing  on new business development.A video version is in the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  https://vimeo.com/manage/showcases/8991144/infoMedia 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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

WE APPOLOGIZE…BUT ONE FINAL WORD ON THE JIMMY KIMMEL DEBACLE (2:30)DAN PATRICK HAS THE GUTS TO SAY WHAT NO ONE ELSE WILL…(12:20)NO WONDER YOUR CAR DEALERSHIP BUDGETS ARE SMALLER OR GONE (19:44)Welcome to the only podcast/video blog that talks about all kinds of media…and the impact on local sales and management.  Two media execs, Jackson Weaver and Keith Samuels do this each Wednesday.  Produced by InTown Media we welcome comments at [email protected]  Website www.intownmedia.com 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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

AUDACY/iHEART MERGER?  WHEN PIGS FLY?  MAYBE NOT…(3:01)WILL THE NFL RENEG ON IT’S  DEAL WITH CBS?? (10:26)IN AT LEAST ONE MAJOR MARKET - THE HANK IS THE MAN! (15:50)Welcome to the only podcast/video blog that talks about all kinds of media…and the impact on local sales and management.  Two media execs, Jackson Weaver and Keith Samuels do this each Wednesday.  Produced by InTown Media we welcome comments at [email protected]  Website www.intownmedia.com 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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

JUST WHEN WE THINK WE’RE THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM…(14:45)BIA TOP 10 BILLING RADIO STATION REPORT IS MISSING IN ACTION! (18:32)WHAT OPTIONS EXIST FOR SAGA? (3:31)WELCOME TO our podcast focused on radio TV and OCCASIONALLY digital.  Hosted by Jackson Dell Weaver in the Coachella Valley in La Quinta east of Palm Springs…  - and - coming to us from the hills of  Hollywood…co-host Mr. Keith Samuels.  Welcome to the Wednesday Sept 3rd Episode of Media Insultant….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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

CAROLYN BEASLEY KEEPS BAILING…BUT THE WATER IS RISING (3:05)EVERYONE IS ASKING…WELL WE ARE - WHY IS TEGNA LEAVING $1.8B ON THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR…? (12:40)SOUND EXCHANGE CAN ASK…BUT CAN NO LONGER SUE FOR UNPAID STREAMING ROYALTIES…WHAT’S THAT ABOUT? (20:28)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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

Our ad agency guru, Ed Steenman of Steenman & Associates joins us for a SPECIAL EDITION of Media Insultant.  Ed compares his media buying strategy with an AI buy with Chat GPT.  The results may surprise you.  He also talks about how to best deal with AI planning if you are in media sales.  Welcome to episode 269 of Media insultant.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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

APPLE MAY PICK UP F1 - BUT WHY DID ESPN BOW OUT? (4:30)ESPN STUNS WITH NEW NFL DEAL - BUT WILL TRUMP TAKE HIS POUND OF FLESH…? (9:08)TV GROUPS ARE ON A BUYING BINGE - WHAT DO THE TV GROUPS KNOW THAT WE DON’T? (13:51)WELCOME TO our podcast focused on radio TV and OCCASIONALLY digital.   Jackson Dell Weaver is in the  southern CA desert city of La Quinta  - and co-host …Mr. Keith Samuels. Welcome to the Wednesday August 13th  Episode of Media Insultant….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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

IS AI A DOOM MACHINE FOR RADIO & TV BUDGETS?PERSONNEL UPDATE WITH KEITHTEGNA PAYS FOR DIRTY VIDEO - BUT IT HARDLY SEEMS FAIR. WELCOME TO our podcast focused on radio TV and OCCASIONALLY digital.  Hosted by  Jackson Dell Weaver - and  co-hosted - a real Angelino from Los Angeles…Mr. Keith Samuels.  Welcome you to the Wednesday August 6th  Episode of Media Insultant….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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

THE LOCAL PROMISES A FUTURE FOR LOCAL TV NEWS. (0:20)VIDEO MAY NOT HAVE KILLED THE RADIO STAR...BUT INSTEAD, JOINED HANDS WITH RADIO. (10:35)WHY ARE MAJOR BIG MARKET TV STATIONS LOSING THEIR NEWORK AFFILIATIONS? (15:33)Welcome to the only podcast/video blog that talks about all kinds of media…and the impact on local sales and management.  Two media execs, Jackson Weaver and Keith Samuels do this each Wednesday.  Produced by InTown Media we welcome comments at [email protected]  Website www.intownmedia.com 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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

TOWNSQUARE  WALKS AWAY…AGAIN…(10:44)FOX TELEVISION DUPLICATES WHAT RADIO HAS BEEN DOING…(4:50)PAUL HARVEY - FROM HIS GRAVE - THE REST OF THE STORY.(10:33)REEL RADIO FOR GEEKS IS BACK! (17:34)WELCOME TO our podcast focused on radio TV and OCCASIONALLY digital.   We  welcome you to the Wednesday  July 9th  Episode of Media Insultant…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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

IS ADVERTISING GOING TO  FOLLOW THE BOUNCING APPLE PLUS…(18:20)WE TAKE OUT HATS OFF IN DEEP RESPECT  FOR WESTERN MEDIA iNTERNATIONALS  DENNIS HOLT . (9:35)TEGNA MAKES A BOLD MOVE WHICH IS BOUND TO PISS OFF THEIR  NETWORKS (5:30)WELCOME TO the podcast focused on radio TV and OCCASIONALLY digital We  welcome you to the Wednesday  June 25th  Episode of Media Insultant….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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

NPR AND PBS - IS THEIR HAIR REALLY ON FIRE…. ARE THEY ON THE ROPES OR IS THIS ALL SMOKE AND MIRRORS…? (10:50)SOME THINK THAT SEARCH IS HAVING AN EXISTENTIAL MOMENT….AND MAYBE SO!  BLUE LINKS (16:24)IHEART SHOWS UP THE REST OF THE RADIO BUSINESS…(5:24)WE SHARE A BRIAN WILSON BEACH BOYS STORY…(1:07)AND A TRUE STORY ABOUT THE SUCCESS OF BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA…(22:02)WELCOME TO the podcast focused on radio TV and OCCASIONALLY digital We  welcome you to the Wednesday  June 18th  Episode of Media Insultant….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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

BOYS WILL BE BOYS…THAT MAY BE TRUE BUT IT COSTS CBS MILLIONS. (2:55)META SAYS, WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING CREATIVES!  (13:07)COX FURTHER RETREATS FROM IT’S ROOTS AS A MEDIA POWERHOUSE (17:50)OW IS THE SINGLE EMMIS STATION DOING IN THE BIG APPLE? (7:05)  WELCOME TO the podcast focused on radio TV and OCCASIONALLY digital.  We  welcome you to the Wednesday  June 11th  Episode of Media Insultant….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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

TULSA IS AN OIL TOWN THAT MORE THAN 200 SONGS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT…BUT THAT’S NOT ENOUGH FOR COX TO STAY IN TOWN…(12:31)THE DEBT BOOGIE MAN HAS COME CALLING ON BYRON ALLEN…HE’S NOT BUYING PARAMOUNT OR ABC…HE’S BECOME A SELLER…(18:54)THE CEO OF CONNEISOUR MEDIA IS FEELING JILTED AND UNAPPRECIATED.  SO HE’S SUING…(7:39)Good morning…WELCOME TO the podcast focused on radio TV and OCCASIONALLY digital.  We  welcome you to the Wednesday  June 4th Episode of Media Insultant….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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

KDUN IS HANDED BACK TO THE FCC (3:07)WHOOPS.  OUR MEMORIES ARE OVERLOADED AND WE HAVE A MISTAKE TO CORRECT… (5:27)THE DEAL BEHIND THE DEAL OF THE YEAR. (6:57).AI ASHLEY HAS BEEN RIFFED! (11:50)AND WITH POLITICAL TURMOIL AT CBS WENDY MCMAHAN HAS HAD AGUT FULL….(15:32)Good morning…WELCOME TO the podcast focused on radio TV and OCCASIONALLY digital.   We  welcome you to the Wednesday  May 28th  Episode of Media Insultant….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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

We break format today...bringing in our Auto Insultant, Mr. Ed Steenman.  Ed owns an ad agency, Steenman & Associates,  in Seattle handling Tier 2 and Tier 3 auto clients.  With the chaos around tariffs impacting the automobile business, we asked Ed how to navigate the current market as a sales rep. And...to our surprise, a big endorsement for 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 - but also any media that is relevent or beneficial to media sales and management.  Videos are under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

THE WIZARD OF WESTPORT STRIKES AGAIN…(1:10)WESTWOOOD ONE  - HOW MUCH LONGER WILL THEY HANG ON? (21:50)WELCOME TO the podcast focused on radio TV and OCCASIONALLY digital… - ……in the Coachella Valley from the city of LaQuinta in the California desert - I'm Jackson Dell Weaver…and from the hills above Los Angeles LA my co-host and insultant guru….Keith Samuels. 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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

ESPN IS DITCHING MLB BASEBALL COVERAGE…IS THERE A BETTER DEAL TO BE HAD?SOME GOOD NEWS FOR OUR RADIO FRIENDS…JUST DON’T READ THE FINE PRINT…CUMULUS IS DELISTED…HOW MUCH LONGER CAN THEY HANG ON?Good morning…WELCOME TO the podcast focused on radio TV and OCCASIONALLY digital… - ……in the Coachella Valley from the city of LaQuinta in the California desert… I’m JDW…and from the hills above Los Angeles LA my co-host and Masters Golf reporter….Keith Samuels. Together   We  welcome you to the Wednesday  April 30th  Episode of Media Insultant….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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

A REAL BLOW TO THE NEXT GEN TV ADVOCATES…(8:47)FEELING A LITTLE LIKE YOU’RE ON THE TITANTIC…? STAYING AFLOAT (19:53)CAN WE LEARN SOMETHING FROM INSTA AND TIKTOC IN HOW WE HANDLE SPOTS? (13:54)WELCOME TO the podcast focused on radio TV and OCCASIONALLY digital… - ……in the Coachella Valley from the city of LaQuinta in the California desert… I’m JDW…and from the hills above Los Angeles LA my co-host and Masters Golf reporter….Keith Samuels. Together   We  welcome you to the Wednesday  April 17th  Episode of Media Insultant….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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

THE AMAZING SHRINKING LOCAL TV NEWS OPERATIONS….(8:55)MORE CHANGES IN THE MIDWEST IHEART CHANGES MANAGEMENT (17:05)SUDDENLY - WE GET A SENSE OF DEJA VU…IT’S 1977 AND RADIO COMPLAINS ABOUT NIELSEN…(2:05)WELCOME TO the podcast focused on radio TV and OCCASIONALLY digital… - ……in the Coachella Valley from the city of LaQuinta in the California desert… I’m JDW…and from the hills above Los Angeles LA my co-host and Masters Golf reporter….Keith Samuels. Together   We  welcome you to the Wednesday  April 17th  Episode of Media Insultant….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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

RADIO.COM NO SALE   (3:00)3 MINUTE LISTENING PERIODS - JUST A WAY TO KEEP NIELSEN’S RADIO CLIENTS HAPPY…OR SERIOUS IMPROVEMENT…?  (8;45)BYRON ALLEN MAY HAVE LEARNED A LESSON…MAYBE? (5:25)MORE RADIO STATIONS SHUT DOWN…22 FOR CUMULUS…(16:30) 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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!  

PAYOLA IS BACK (13:00)CMG IS FOR SALE.  SO…WHAT ELSE IS NEW? (4:10)SMG - STEPHENS MEDIA -  SELLS 4 STATIONS FOR WHAT…? (10:47)Welcome to the only podcast/video blog that talks about all kinds of media…and the impact on local sales and management.  Two media execs, Jackson Weaver and Keith Samuels do this each Wednesday.  Produced by InTown Media we welcome comments at [email protected]  Website www.intownmedia.com 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 under the Media Insultant Showcase on Vimeo.  Comments are always welcome at [email protected]  Thanks for listening!