Media Thoughts by John McDermott (Caloroga Shark Media)
John McDermottI am the Head Disruptor at Caloroga Shark Media and the mayor of Audio Island Some thoughts about the podcasting and radio industries that might differ from the usual groupthink....but this substack has no rules so I might write about Star Trek.
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50 years ago We Cosplayed 1776 for 18 Months
I’m not feeling USA250 and that makes me sad.
(Is it USA250? America250? The Semiquincentennial? I genuinely don’t know what we’re calling it, which is sort of the whole problem.)
I was six in the summer of 1976, and the Bicentennial was...
Sports.
June has been a LOT, and I mean that in the best way.
The weather’s been damn near perfect. I’ve been happy, relaxed, thankful the whole stretch has had that Friday-before-Memorial-Day feeling I’m always chasing. And it has lasted a month....
Are you telling Michael Caine he is slop?
Michael Caine’s AI Voice will be used to read the audiobook for The Odyssey. This is exactly the argument I have been making for our use of AI Narration on some Caloroga Shark Media podcasts. Would you rather hear Fake Michael Caine read it...
The Knicks Parade
As I watched the Knicks Parade earlier today, some feelings I hadn’t felt in a long time came back.
I WANTED TO BE IN A STUDIO PRODUCING SOMETHING.
I felt like I should have been back in WOR Studio 2. Joe Bartlett anchoring live news cove...
Podcasts on the Beach and an automated World Cup show that is NOT slop
That was my view the other day as I listened to podcasts. I thought to myself, maybe I should leave this beautiful beach on this warm day with low humidity and go inside to watch people in Zoom Boxes on Netflix. After coming to sanity, I st...
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Never worked in FM radio. I've worked in AM, Satellite, Podcasting and co-own a podcast company. I teach college courses on media. I'm probably going to make someone mad with this.
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