The Broadcasters Podcast

Rolling Stone Challenges Billboard For the Top of the Charts. KOP discusses the interesting choice by the heritage rock magazine to challenge chart supremacy for the first time in over a decade. What does it mean to be popular? That’s a question that music fans and music makers alike have asked for ages — but recently with more urgency than ever before, as listening patterns in the digital age shi...

Critically acclaimed and multiple award-winning actor Eric Schumacher talks about the superhero movie stranglehold and the ensuing digital streaming battle against Netflix. Eric Schumacher is a critically acclaimed and multiple award-winning actor, producer, and director. Eric has produced or directed industrial videos, commercials, feature films, short films, web series, music videos and more. Er...

Writers Guild Wants 1-on-1 With Top 9 Agencies. The WGA Rejects ATA Offer and now seeks individual talks with the top 9 agencies. Variety reports the Writers Guild of America has called off negotiations with the Association of Talent Agents in favor of pursuing individual talks with nine top agencies as it enforces a total ban on packaging fees and affiliated production for agents representing gui...

Billie Eilish Blows Up into the Mainstream. KOP follows up on the continuing rise of a young new music artist ushering in a new phase of pop culture for the next decade. KOP answers a listener email that reads:  Great review of Billie Eilish. First-time listener to your podcast, btw. So pardon me if this question is inappropriate. Is Billie Eilish an "industry plant"? This is a common question rai...

KOP discusses Conformity and Censorship at the Cost of Media Corporatization.  The Vox Media Union walkout combined with a YouTube censorship cry from one of Vox's YouTube hosts show the latest case of the above.  While the mainstream media subliminally supports conformity and censorship, Publish Protocol recent published a whitepaper on the subject that stated, " The purpose of journalism is to p...

Movie stars are planted into some of our all-time favorite game shows.  Is streaming suffering from a lack of transparency?  How will the changing landscape fracture Netflix's long-term stranglehold on the streaming spectrum?  Stories discussed include:  What Do Showrunners Look for When Staffing a Writers Room? TV Game Shows Increasingly Reel In Movie Star Hosts TV Long View: Streaming Future Suf...

TV classics create a new social conversation. KOP gives his takeaways on "Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons on ABC." Shock Jock Radio is Dead as Howard Stern's new book fails to hold on as a top bestseller. Radio industry vets weigh what happened.   Plus, WGA-ATA Talks back on,  the disruptors of streaming video services, Network TV in 2019, and...

Several stories targeting the upcoming fall season of network TV pop up. A story pops up about the state of the Music Industry.  Critics write that there are not enough women, color or gender in each media. KOP examines the claims made.  Plus, a radio business publication picks up the Data Face study that KOP spoke about months ago.  The article he cites is titled, "Does Radio ‘Lag Behind’ Streami...

SI Swimsuit Issue Shocks Readers... cue feigning outrage, and KOP welcomes back University of Florida communications professor Andrew Selepak to talk about GenZ and the Diverse and Segmented Media. Sports Illustrated tells swimsuit issue buyers "It's Time to Rethink Everything You Thought You Knew about the SI Swimsuit Issue. They state:  "The issue celebrates beauty in all its forms. Pretty faces...

Avengers: Endgame and Game of Thrones show that creative patience pays off. KOP talks about how well-told stories and appointment viewing are still possible to the attention deprived, binge-watcher.  Plus, KOP talks Hollywood: Writers Guild Expanding Staffing Submission System Without Agents.  88 Percent of Showrunners Are White, WGA West Finds.  Disney Streaming Deal Will Blow Up The Cable Univer...

More of KOP's featured conversation on the future of digital media and journalism's journey back to credibility with marketing and communications professional Nicole Jordan. KOP welcomes back marketing and communications professional Nicole Jordan, the founder of her own independent PR firm, Radix Collective.  We discuss several points made in a recent article in the Vassar Public Review, titled “...

KOP discusses the issues affecting the state of digital media and the overall survival of journalism with marketing and communications professional Nicole Jordan. Nicole started her career in Silicon Valley during the tech boom, where she worked on launching and maintaining marketing programs for companies that play in the space where digital media, the web, and consumer products converge. Some of...

Billie Eilish breaks through the mainstream barrier and brings a fresh new sound to modern music all the way to the top of the Billboard charts.  KOP profiles her ongoing ride to inevitable superstar status and what we can learn from her creativity and confidence so early into her career. Plus, digital media learns what it's like to be in corporate radio with the story of one company being acquire...

Time Running Out For New WGA-ATA Deal as the expiration of their franchise agreement approaches.  Plus, iHeartMedia Prepares for Possible I.P.O. even while bankrupt, Netflix fuels the pipeline for more content and now fuels the race for studio space. Plus, KOP interviews Patrick Kilpatrick, a veteran actor who has appeared in over 170 hit films and TV shows largely as a villain — from Steven Spiel...

Cardi B says she used to rob and drug men growing up, and KOP defends the artist against the social media smear being made to her. Netflix vs. Apple TV is On! Netflix Ranked as No. 1 Fastest-Growing U.S. Brand in 2019, just as Apple TV Streaming is announced. Also, iHeartMedia Considers IPO, Direct Listing as Bankruptcy Exit Nears. Plus, more of my 2-part interview with Perry Michael Simon, the VP...

Corporate Radio Rolls Out of Bankruptcy and Rolls Into Podcasting as KOP discusses the evolution of the radio industry in a 2-part interview with Perry Michael Simon, the VP and News-Talk-Sports Editor at AllAccess.com and host of The Evening Bulletin podcast. We cover the bankruptcy fallout of the top 2 radio companies in the US, iHeartMedia, and Cumulus, plus we go into all of the inroads being...

#iHeartMedia flips a station to get this...all podcasts!  Radio asks: Can You Accept Pot Ads? Can You Run Ads For CBD Oils? Asked and answered at Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference in Miami. Sixty-Four Percent of Diverse TV Writers Experience Discrimination or Harassment on the Job, New Report Finds. Plus, more of my conversation on with Sexual Consent and Seduction in Movies and Television as KO...

Sexual Consent and Seduction in Movies and Television as KOP welcomes filmmaker/writer/professor Michele Meek, author of Independent Female Filmmakers—A Chronicle Through Interviews, Profiles and Manifestos. We talked about how the content that we're being subjected to in our TV and movies, and the negative connotations they raise are a big problem based on a number of variables: How this content...

Streaming vs Radio Resistance debate continues as KOP resumes his discussion on the DataFace study on Measuring Radio’s Lag Behind Streaming Services And How It’s Impacting The Music We Listen To. Plus, more on The Future Of The Media Industry , Country Radio's identity crisis and part of KOP dicussion with Producer/Director/Writer Ned Ehrbar talking about the Oscars, writing for entertainment, th...

KOP examines the unfortunate fall of #JussieSmollett.  #ArianaGrande tops the top 3 spots of the Billboard #Hot100 and the album makes the #Hot200.  Plus, KOP talks with Writer and director Ned Ehrbar, known for the California No (2018), Bunker (2014) and Co-op of the Damned (2012). Ned is also a personal finance producer for Yahoo Finance. He previously worked at NBC, CBS, and MTV. KOP talks to N...

Radio Cant Beat Music Streaming. So They Join Together?! Kop goes through a new study that measures Radio’s Lag Behind Streaming Services.  Could one of the debt-ridden radio companies be going away? Plus, how bad is music streaming impacting radio and how Teens Are Trouble For Radio. Support the Broadcasters Podcast by: Sending a PayPal donation by going to  https://www.paypal.me/kingofpodcasts S...

The Sad State of #NetworkTV is pitiful, as it is Surviving on the #NFL #SuperBowl and Live Sports. A new report shows that NFL games accounted for 34 of the top 50 most-watched broadcasts, and 61 of the top 100.  Plus, we look at the social justice influence on commercials and the halftime show in the Super Bowl this weekend.  Support the Broadcasters Podcast by: Sending a PayPal donation by going...

#DigitalNews, and all journalism as we knew it, is on Death Watch as KOP  takes a 30,000-foot discussion on how journalism and the evolution of digital news have lost its way and its vital signs as an industry is critical. Plus, Action-Based Anime Makes Mainstream Arrival as Dragon Ball Super: Broly's box office success opens the eyes of the movie industry. What are animes chances in the mainstrea...

#Gillette Grills Guys Masculinity and KOP takes a rare look into a controversial commercial looking to make a message without any focus on the actual product. Plus, Netflix Growth Neutralizes Spend Into Debt. So, what does this mean about the cable and network mainstays? Support the Broadcasters Podcast by: Sending a PayPal donation by going to https://www.paypal.me/kingofpodcasts Shopping at Amaz...

#MeToo Strikes John Legend and R. Kelly. John Legend being photographed with Harvey Weinstein and an R. Kelly docuseries resurrect years-old sex accusations against the singer. Plus,  How Bad Does Radio Need Change? KOP looks at the disparities in radio's corporate culture and the negative impact created by homogenized CHR radio.  Support the Broadcasters Podcast by: Sending a PayPal donation by g...