Erwin Krasnow / John Brooks

Five Tips on Raising Start-Up Money from Family and Friends

By Erwin G. Krasnow, Esq. and John R. Brooks Many owners of broadcast stations received start-up capital from close friends, relatives or business associates who...

Emergency preparedness in the traffic department

Emergency preparedness is a big deal when you are a Traffic Manager in an earthquake prone environment. Even if you are not in an...

Tips for Broadcasters: How (and why!) to Build the Perfect Mobile Database

For today’s broadcasters, revenues are directly tied to one key metric – tune ins, or the number of listeners and viewer who tune in...
John Pelkey

To Purchase or Not to Purchase?: How to Answer a Towering Question

By John M. Pelkey, Garvey Schubert Barer Previous articles in the Intelligence Briefs series, such as “How to Turn Steel into Gold: Monetize Your Tower,”...
Erwin Krasnow / John Brooks

How To Get Money From Uncle Sam

By John R. Brooks and Erwin G. Krasnow, Esq. Spurred by the deep freeze in the credit markets that has closed the financing window to...
John Pelkey

Don’t Let Interference Interfere With Your Tower Revenue

By John M. Pelkey, Garvey Schubert Barer As much as a broadcaster might be tempted to rent out space on its tower to all comers,...
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Confidence continues to edge upward

The latest BIGinsight economic soundings found consumers feeling slightly better about things in August 2012 than they were in July 2012, and they felt...
John Pelkey

Tower Lease Agreement Schedules: Don’t Lease a Tower without Them

By John M. Pelkey, Garvey Schubert Barer In “How to Turn Steel into Gold: Monetize Your Tower,” Radio and Television Business Report, June 27, 2012,...

What’s up with Indecency? Part II

Having covered how we got to the current state of confusion in FCC indecency policy, let’s look at some places where we might take...
Erwin Krasnow / John Brooks

Workable Tips on Working Capital

By John B. Brooks and Erwin G. Krasnow, Esq. Imagine you just got hired as CFO of a broadcast group, a pretty prestigious, well-paying and...
Gregg Skall

So, Now that the Supreme Court Has Ruled: What’s up with Indecency?

Pretty much everyone in broadcasting knows that the Supreme Court has ruled in the Fox/CBS case.  The court did not settle the constitutional issue...
Erwin Krasnow / John Pelkey

Money-Saving Tips on Leasing Your Tower

By John M. Pelkey and Erwin G. Krasnow, Garvey Schubert Barer As we explained in “How to Turn Steel into Gold: Monetize Your Tower,” Radio...

Today’s Broadcast General Manager

In most respects, it has always been a tough, demanding and often criticized job: that of a broadcast General Manager. The broadcast General Manager...
Three / Goals / Bullseye

Three things that define your goals

Most of the time when I read a book that asks me to do an exercise, I simply pause to think about the question and give it some mental
Ken Dardis

Getting Your Song Played on Radio

Don't suppose there are many stories of independent artists who contacted a radio industry station and succeeded in getting that station to air their...