Gee, what a shock. Yet another article bashing the suits at either Clear Channel, Cumulus or Citadel. Look, it's not like he's off base, but most of the time it's all he brings to the table. We know, Jerry, they suck. What else have you got?
The guy fancies himself as some sort of new media guru. Yeah, right. Like a sixty something trade hack who used to kiss the butts of radio management for subscriptions and ad sales to his former trade mag "Inside Radio" would have any idea how the industry is going to shake out. I'm not seeing too many success stories from his "clients." In his world Steve Jobs can do no wrong, but everyone else (outside of himself of course) is completely ignorant of new media. He bashes on stations that run syndicated programming (or Repeater Radio as he calls it) but if it's one of his friends (like Jerry Lee of WBEB/Philadelphia) he gives them a pass.
By bashing on the big consolidated groups, he's trying to woo disgruntled radio people to his seminars, at several hundred dollars a pop. He's stated that he'll be putting his blog behind a pay wall some time this summer. He's hoping he can convince enough desperate radio pros to fork over 99 bucks a year to read his screeds. Even if he only gets 1,000 suckers to pay up, he'll make 100K a year just sitting in his living room on his laptop grinding his axes against his radio enemies and telling us Steve Jobs is god. And the scary thing is he'll probably do it.
So lets see, he got a big bailout by selling his magazine to Clear Channel just before the print trade went south, and now he's preying on displaced radio people to take what little money they have left to pay for his seminars and access to his blog that really doesn't tell you much of anything. He's a shrewd businessman that's for sure. PT Barnum would be proud.
