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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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
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...
Demystifying the Debt Term Sheet
By John R. Brooks and Erwin G. Krasnow, Esq.
Thanks to your taking our advice on putting together a persuasive business plan (see our articles,...
Slight consumer confidence bounceback for July
While it may not be time to start popping the champagne corks, a 1.5% gain in the BIGinsight topline consumer confidence index is better...
Mining Gold from the Station’s Previous Purchase Agreement
By John M. Pelkey, Garvey Schubert Barer
In the Westerns of the 50’s and 60’s, the cowboy sneaking a peek at a poker player’s cards...
How must our logs be signed?
Interestingly, this recurring question keeps popping up. It seems to result from what may turn out to be one of the great myths in...