John & Kipper

Two Eckhartz Press authors got the attention of Robert Feder this week. From last night's Robservations column...

Latest stop on John Records Landecker’s victory tour en route to the National Radio Hall of Fame is a visit with David Martin and Kipper McGee, hosts of “Brandwidth on Demand.” Closing out the first season of the radio insider podcast series, Landecker tells what makes a good program director: “It’s pretty simple. The program director or whoever it is appreciates the people that are on the air, and that person who is the program director feels that it is their job to facilitate whatever those people bring to the table, and present what they bring along with what the station brings into a final package, combining personality and the music. . . . On the other hand, there are programmers who want to take radio stations and stamp them with their identity,” Landecker says. “And then there are idiots, who are just totalitarian dictator types.” (Here is the link.)