What the heck is it . I will speak about this in the iowa broadcasters meeting week after next. What the heck is digital . If you try and call any of your friends this weekend youre going to get voice mail. Because they dumped orange the is new black season three. This is how People Choose to communicate. If we choose programing into the tower, out in the ether one off were leaving money on the table. We have to use the thing in the pocket used to call the phone as dvr of radio. Thank you holland. Chris, how are things at cbs . Ive been here all morning. Last time i checked it was good. Do you know something i dont know. No, no. Cbs right tony, i dont know. Things are good. We do invest a lot in live and local programing. You heard Mike Francesa speak about that today. If you put his station on today, fan, 24 hours, seven days a week, live and local. Wins in this town is still that way. 880 is still that way. That model is not gone. Is it more expensive . Yes. Is it difficult to find talent to staff it 24 hours a day . Yes. But is the payoff bigger . Yes. You spend money to make money. So there is that awareness . Yeah. Another question for you youre sitting in a situation with a company that is multiplatform has a Huge Investment in the stick and Huge Investment in digital personally is the stick still a good investment . Is the stick something worth having . Will there be amfm radio in 10 years . It is a question for what you pay for the stick. When you talk about the stick, the stick is a business equation. What did you pay for the stick and what return can you get that talk to heritage broadcasters who bought the stick decades ago, 40 years ago, that is very complicated conversation to say it is still worth it or not. Will it still be around . Yes. If you go to detroit and you speak to Automotive Industry the makers of cars, they have no plans to get rid of the amhfm experience in the car. Will they add to it . Of course. We know about the dashboard. That is not at expense of taking away am and fm. So the people who make the cars are telling us it is not going anywhere. I dont know why we wouldnt believe them. Karen hunter youre on satellite radio. Now youve been on terrestial radio. Karen has been a publisher and a pulitzer prizewinning writer. Absolutely brilliant woman. Thank you. Youve been with cirrus why are you smiling at me . I agree. [laughter] when youve done a show with somebody and taught you how to rap, you can be familiar. We did more than that michael but. The audience no im joking. Karen what is your view of satellite radio . We havent had much conversation about it today yet and youre in the thick of it . I absolutely love it. While i agree am and fm arent going anywhere what satellite has done is provide a platform for people to broaden, when we talk about diversity to bring different people into the mix. Most of us have satellite radio automatically in our cars whether we get them or renting or leasing or buying. From my standpoint before i was just here in new york doing a morning show and now im reaching people from the bahamas and canada i dont know if it is legal, i dont know how they are getting a signal but talking to people literally across the country. It is breathtaking every day to come in and to know that your voice is reaching that far. You are on a channel that is basically designated as urban africanamerican. I would imagine not being africanamerican, im not in those shows but as an observer i wonder about this is it difficult to find the boundaries in terms of general conversation where being an africanamerican begins and ends and when it becomes generallism . I somehow knew i was going to get the black question. I wonder why . [laughter]. Please, please. I think you could probably answer it better. Im on two channels, thank you, dave. One siriusxm urban view and insight a new channel the brainchild of Pete Domenici nick. It is interesting, because im doing a live show on monday. They repeat the urban show on insight. Im starting to do a live show on insight with completely different audience. But i dont change anything. You know i publish kris jenners book. I have had quite a bit of time with these reality people and i realize the world has changed dramatically. Every day i wake up at some point these 15 minutes will be up and doesnt seem to be. Ive come to the conclusion that people are fascinated by people. If i can be interesting every single day being myself. Doesnt matter what my race is, quite frankly being on urban view is funny. Yesterday we had caller tom hartman on talking about the tpp. Caller said you should make this goes out to the urban community. My call screener was like this is urban view, right . Urban Community Needs to know this. It is like, oh okay. Just interesting to me that i dont necessarily draw those boundaries and lines. That is why i think we have very diverse audience of a whole lot of people. I do hang up on a lot of people too. Could be broader if i didnt hang up on so many. Julie i will ask you the woman question, since you are the reining woman of the year people ask me all the time how come there are not more women on the heavy 100 . Dont blame the ma messenger. I asked the question, how come therent more women in talk radio. There arent any. There is what it is. There is no answer. What is your answer . I have a lot of conversations even today with women in the industry, the most important thing, people ask the question how do i become that big success . I response that i gave today, im kind of looking around for some of those folks we talk about, we said, who has defined success . If you got a great show and you are making money and there are options for distribution, there are lots of them. A lot of digital outlet including i heart media there is a different definition of success. Be in charge of your own life and if there are limited times on an on air right now look at it a different way. We can do this. Thank you. Joe, youre in the newspaper business. Youre as realistic a reporter, editor, lou grant. You have ink in your blood like i got the smell of turntables. Theyre dinosaur. Youre no dinosaur at all. Youre a visionary and youre part of the future. You work at a daily newspaper that has innovation in its ink. And youre in the Radio Business now. Two years youre in the Radio Business on this Boston Herald radio. Share with this Radio Business audience what youve learned. Well, it is amazing. To summarize it the radio has been a shot of adrenaline to our News Organization which has been traditionally a newspaper. We obviously have website and do video, but it has enhanced our journalism. Expanded our reach. And, were seeing sort of the very best of radio the basics that you know about, immediacy of radio, when breaking news happens, realtime. Really so valuable in terms of reporting things now. Newsmakers, public figures the governor the mayor, athletes, celebrities, they might be reluctant to call it print reporter and do an interview and have that person put through a filter and decides which quotes they will use which quotes they will not use. Now they come on herald radio and be heard in full context. The key thing is, i will be very brief, it is not a Radio Station in isolation. It is enat that greated fully with Everything Else we do in our newsroom. We break news on the radio. Then we break it simultaneously on the web. There is video embedded and there is sound embed bed on web and sent out in social media. We often times advance the story that we had broken on the radio. So actually today, on the front page we have a rand paul interview saying dont go after my wife the way you went after marco rubios wife. That story broke on herald radio. Only downside michael it is hard to find photos use in the paper without people wearing headphones. A lot of shooting in the studio. But as a news coverage, news breaking vehicle and as a way to expand our audience it has been incredible. Are the powers that be there happy you did it . Oh absolutely. I think were getting great recognition nationally. Just named as finalist for innovator of the year for integrated programing. I remember when you first came into our studio and walked you through there, incredible supporter and helper of radio in the beginning were newspaper people. Radio is very difficult medium to learn and you need experience doing it. It is a difficult thing to navigate. Michael is helpful. Came into the studio and our studio not multimillion, Fox News Channel sirius studios with bells and whistles. It is renovated conference room, four mics set up, very basic board and michael is looking around saying, you want to put some soundproofing there or some soundproofing here but it has technically been very basic. We have a comre xbox we take on the road. We do remotes. We have bureau from city hall. We broadcast from there. So very low investment but were seeing traction on advertising acrosssell as well as radiospecific buy. I strongly advise everybody not familiar with Boston Herald radio to check it out. What theyre doing is definitely clearcut example of future and potential of audio media mixed in a multiplatform setting. I applaud you for that. Alan colmes, you are a friend of mine for years. So i know you personally. What . Dont try to be funny. Alan is really a very funny guy. When ever people say to me, i get so angry at him. He is a such a nasty bastard i get upset at him. You called me bastard. I will have to cut it out because this runs on the childrens channel. It is our 18th degree as my Friends Point out. Doing two move man show. I thought that part of my life was over. You get a tough question. Who the heck are you really . Thats deep. Fact youre doing really good Experimental Work in formats that are way beyond what anybody who knows you would know. And i would like to talk about it. That is very interesting. That is a great question. Wish i thought about it before i came here. You find out now. Who we are, i think speaks so much to what kind of show we do and who are we on the air. Certainly people who know my work would say well, he is a liberal or he is antiamerican, he hates the country. But, who are we as a great question to ask yourself and think about, in terms of what part of yourself do you want to bring to the show youre doing. People know from meehanty and colmes or see on hannity and colmes. Argue with me, monica crowley, my sisterinlaw, a sixminute segment you become a cartoon. Mike francesa was saying earlier you have a few minutes or Brian Kilmeade on television, you have three or four minutes to get little sound bites out. On radio you can have actual conversations. Our show for fox news radio is caller interactive. It becomes more than just left versus right. It is who am i . Who is my audience. We have regular callers. When they first moved knee to 6 00 to 9 00 p. M. I didnt have a big audience at first because they changed my time slot. And which is, to much better time slot quite frankly. So i would get two callers an hour. Those callers became people on the show and characters on the show and we made made the people who called the show into you know, one theory would be, well same people call in every day, you dont want the same voices to get kind of boring. These people we talked about their i was are. We talked about what their personal issues were what their Health Issues were. The caller about the show less about who i am answer my question but it is nice. I guess this is leading me to maybe, didnt anticipate this going in this direction but who you are, is a lot about what you bring to the table. So not just about who i amount. But to get more directly to the question i do a show on talkers. Com, called heal planet one of my other interests which has nothing to do with leftright politics. It is about human consciousness. It is about cost pollgy, that is not makeup. That is how the planet got started. We talk about people in the selfimprovement and people in the Human Potential movement, and talk about people with medication meditation. This is one of my passions. What im not doing radio im not reading political books i read wayne dyer or deep pack chopra. I doing with fox news radio where chopra will be a regular guest. You ask who are we and what part do we bring to the audience. That is a very important question we should each ask ourselves. What part of ourselves do we want to reveal during the few hours on the day. Or what part of ourselves we want to reveal to a different audience. Youre notable gated to be when you are on the big one. You can have your own small channels and podcasts. Craig, i havent forgotten youre here. I havent forgotten im im here either. What is it like being Program Director of wabc, having immense heritage behind you, part of the answer, how is it different being in new york as a pd than it was in providence or a smaller market . Well, thanks for having me, first of all. I think its a great group here. Every year i learn a lot. Everybody takes something away from this conference. Thanks for having me. Gosh wabc versus wpro in providence which is a great station as well i dont think the challenges are that much different. I think that yes the audience is bigger. You know yes, the spots sell for more. Yes, the talent has different, there is a different level of talent in the sense they have to perform on a larger stage but the talent in providence are very talented. The to lent in new york are very talented. That doesnt change. I think Radio Station is a Radio Station in many ways. You still have the, you know, the concerns of a marketing. You still want to sign the talent to the right agreement. You still want the talent to be in a productive day part and have them do the best though they possibly can. The fights, the battles, you know arent different providence to new york or des moines to new york or whatever. You still have a transmitter that goes down in the middle of the night in des moines. You still have that in new york. You still have sales concerns and you still have, you know Sales Managers to work with and be productive with and try to find your spot and find the things that are going to matter. Those conversations are the same in the hallways of providence as they are in new york. So i think the difference for me is just that, you know, there is there is a different pulse in new york city. There is a different, there is a different expectation in new york but both of those stations pro and wabc are heritage brands. Like mr. Dickey said earlier you want to be the custodian of them. I take the heritage of the station in providence and the heritage of the station here in new york very very seriously. It is what a lot of us listen to. We listen to 77 growing up and yankees games. Listen to cousin brucecy or whatever it might have been, listen to big am Radio Stations. I grew up in st. Louis and listened to kmox and wgn. So those big sticks meant a lot to me. So this big stick means a lot to me at 77. So i take it extremely seriously. I take our talent seriously. I take our, approach to promotions and marketing seriously. I take everything seriously because that what is has to be for all of us. And it is an exciting time. So you know its something i hold very dear and something that im very thankful to be a part of. You bring up Something Interesting and well wrap this up in minute 1 2, two minutes. I have programmed in the biggest markets and lives programmed in some small ones and i have found biggest mistake a major market radio person could do think just because theyre in big station or big market somehow they know more or are better than people running small stations or somehow small markets have small people and small money. Small markets have big people with big egos and lots of talent and lots of power and lots of clicks. It is hard to Program Radio in a small town. There are amazing obstacles when you come in with your big city ways and you think you have all the answers. Chris, well let you wrap up the big picture because it is interesting as i followed you over the years. Here you are 2015, youve been around the track a lot and youre not the same young fellow that knew 15, 20 years ago. What is your assessment of the big picture . What do we as radio broadcasters need to be concerned with Going Forward . Well i think, what we have to be concerned about moving forward not making excuses we made a habit of in the past. The whole conversation about volatire this morning is very interesting, it is very interesting, it is new it is shiny, the point i made about that, there have been Radio Stations, spoken word Radio Stations in ppm long before volatire and long before 2554. Sometimes which try to pick on one thing and make it all about that thing and we lose sight of the big picture and that is not good for any industry but the thing that i most passionate about, i actually think nielsen will get it right and i actually think average quarter hour rating points, not share. Share is kind of meaningless in the big picture but average quarter hour rating points for broadcast radio will increase in the next few years, that will be great for business. Thank you. Alan colmes, colin kook craig schwab julie talbot, lets have lunch. [applause] cspan2 brings you the best access to congress. Live debate and voights from the senate floor. Hearings and current Public Policy events. And every weekend it is booktv with nonfiction books and authors. Live coverage of book festivals from around the country and behindthescenes look at the publishing industry. Cspan2, the best access to congress and nonfiction books. In a few moments well take you live to a discussion on the u. S. Patent system examining ways to better p otect innovators while allowing the u. S. Economy to compete globally and remain competitive. Gets underway in just over five minutes from the center for strategic and international studies. Well have it live here on cspan2. 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