New opportunities coming for urban radio?

Skip Murphy

Jasmine Sanders

Sam Sylk

Guy Black

This past week we got some good news with 4 industry vets back in the game in a major way. First Skip Murphy and Jasmine Sanders and Guy Black with the Skip Murphy Show replacing Michael Baisden's vacated syndication slot.  Sam Sylk a Chicago radio vet is making another run in Cleveland at WZAK this time.

I spoke with some programmers and consultants and they seem to think that there will not be the ground swell of opportunities in the future as some would think including myself. As some of the syndicated shows may be coming to a close in a few years the possibility of broke stations going local may be kinda slim in regards to budgets to hire talent.

 Keep working on your new media platforms and get ready for the revolution. There are so many ideas of how to take ourselves to the next level in the new media space.  Remember that while we are working on terrestrial radio we must build our own platforms before the next contract negotiations go sour. All my vets out there, you know what i'm saying.