Scanning The Dial

Sandow to the MPC

February 16, 2010 by Marty Ronish

David Duff, President of the Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio (AMPPR) writes to say Greg Sandow, former critic for The Village Voice, Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, will speak at this year’s MPC. His upcoming book will be titled “Rebirth: The Future of Classical Music.” Greg will address the reasons he thinks classical music will re-engage with the culture, and how–and how that relates to what we do as broadcasters. In case you’re not a radio insider, MPC stands for Music Personnel Conference, and you can find out more about … Continue Reading

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Just sayin’.

February 15, 2010 by Jack Allen

We’re drowning in a river of words: blogs, emails, text messages, tweets, comments, speeches, oratory, rhetoric, verbal engineering, commentary, and spin, spin, spin. Sure, we contribute our fair share right here on Scanning the Dial, but our contribution to the torrent hopefully sets just the right tone, is just clever enough and feels just right. *wink*

There are good words, hate words, and comic words. When you think of good communicators, who comes to mind? President Obama? Jesse Jackson? Jon Stewart? What kind of words tend to capture your imagination? Depends on our mood and needs, doesn’t it.

Brooklyn Rider, and Hope Springs Atonal

February 10, 2010 by Marty Ronish

When my grandfather was in his 80s, he would go every two weeks to get a vitamin B-12 shot. For about two days he would be energized and full of the dickens. Well, a great concert or a fascinating piece of music can do the same thing for you.

Kicking the tires of philanthropy.

January 31, 2010 by Jack Allen

To give or not to give, that is the question.

Not-for-profit radio stations around the country are entering into the spring fund-raising season, facing the same challenges as last year and the year before that, and the year before that. The perennial challenge is engaging the listener in a conversation about the relevance of the station in peoples’ lives and the need for voluntary contributions to cover the station’s expenses. There’s a cause and effect dynamic at work. Programming causes listening, good programming causes loyalty, loyalty causes giving. In theory. Is that all there is to it, do the best we can with creating content and then ask for money – and we shall automatically receive?

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