What’s left to ruin after you’ve decimated your programming, management and sales staffs in massive ongoing cutbacks?

How can you sink any lower than “no one is home” remote radio stations?

Is there anything left to destroy after you’ve killed off your popular morning shows?

Wait until you see what the two largest radio groups are up to now.

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1.  The current setup of station management, sales and studio – big changes are coming.

2.  If you think cutting sales commissions – which they will continue to do – is all they have planned, wait until you hear about the nuclear option.

3.  The next breed of endangered jobs at both Clear Channel and Cumulus – and these people think they are now safe.

4.  Where Clear Channel and Cumulus are on the same track and one big way they are different. 

5.  The biggest change that could happen as early as this year is unthinkable, but Bob Pittman and Lew Dickey are thinking about it nonetheless.

6.  One of the two big consolidators is on their way out of radio and the other is on their way to reinvent it.  Don’t be too sure you know which is which until you see this.

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PERSONAL NOTE:

My old buddy Jim Carnegie, Publisher of RBR, is mourning the death of his delightful and talented wife and partner, Cathy who died at the age of 59 after a short illness.  Jim and I worked together, socialized together and I can tell you that Cathy made all the difference in Jimmy’s life.  Everything that is great about radio is that we are a family – sometimes dysfunctional, but none the less joined by our love of what we do and of each other.  The outpouring of support we are witnessing during the time of his loss is what we do.  My heart aches for Jim.

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Block it out – and make plans to attend.

Next year’s teaching event will focus on the emerging trends for the year ahead plus the challenges you will want to prepare for and opportunities you will want to jump on to give you the edge.

And, as always, this is an interactive seminar with lots of take home pay.

Step one is to reserve January 30-31, 2013.

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This book is about how some people succeed and others fail when life throws them a curve ball. 

It contains example after example of folks who overcame odds by doing something proactive.

That's why two of the best chapters are on jealousy and shame.  Jealousy kills relationships and careers and shame kills self-esteem.  We face no shortage of both in life.  There is a better way not to fall victim.

S#@t happens as the saying goes, but good things happen as well.  

They don't come from winning the lottery or necessarily getting your way.  You grasp success from the jaws of defeat.  Steve Jobs had his company stolen away from him by the man he put in charge to run Apple and then by taking a circuitous route, returned to put in perhaps his most productive years with iPod, iPhone, iMac, iPad and iTunes.  

The media industry is one big bag of bad luck these days, so you will want to gain a new appreciation for taking bad breaks and making good outcomes.

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