Michael Harrison
Michael Harrison
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Ratings are not the same as votes. (Some) people like to listen to people they disagree with. We learned that when Rush had his drug problem; it made him more interesting.
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Radio faces an uncertain future, but doom is not around the corner. It's just over the horizon.
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A lot of people in political talk radio are still on that left-versus-right formula because it's been working. You can be sure that if it continues to show a decline in ratings, they'll alter the course.
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You've just got to go out and play with the pieces you have. Right now, every team's trying to keep going, every team knows this is it, so you're going to get everybody's best effort. Nobody wants to go home.
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You're in a dark, quiet room, there's nobody there, and you may not get your first ratings for a year. If you don't enjoy the process, you're not going to get the instant gratification. Radio is not fulfilling to an ego that needs instant excitement and a loud crowd.
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All across the board, most of the major companies have enacted some type of hard-core rules that basically set the record straight that the talent has to take every opportunity to keep indecency off the air, ... slightest infraction.
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I'm ready. It's time. Shout it out loud, ... It's time. It's time. It's time.
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It's very common in radio for people to re-hire someone they let go. Opie and Anthony have ratings in New York and a loyal following, and they know how to do the shock genre successfully, which not many people do.
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It's ironic two things are going on at the same time. There's a real predisposition in FM radio to entertaining new talk formats, just as they're losing their major talk talent.
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It's been good for him, ... His ratings are up.
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It's a smart move. I think they are accomplished practitioners of the hot talk genre.
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It slows the rate of fire spread. It actually will put the fire out and burn on through. This stuff, when the fire burns up to it, it completely puts it out ... if it's mixed right.
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The game plan is for (Jason) and I to play aggressive and try and get people in foul trouble. We are playing our best basketball, so we have a lot more confidence each day.
I think it's just that we come out a little too comfortable, a little too loose.