The most common New Year’s resolutions are about losing weight, quitting smoking, and getting more exercise.   What if we took those same resolutions and applied them to our radio stations?

Lose Weight!

We know that eating junk food is unhealthy, but clogging up your radio station with junk programming can weigh you down, too.  Junk programming is anything that doesn’t match your listeners’ needs and expectations or done with excellence.  The discipline of losing weight isn’t much fun, but you’ll love it when you’re slim and trim.

Quit Smoking!

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The Christmas season brings out the best in our format.   More people tune in than at any other time of the year, some stations topping a million listeners per week, once unthinkable.

Many stations often do the best job of connecting on common values with stories of hope, forgiveness, and fresh starts.  Over the last several weeks I have heard some amazing stories and songs.

I heard how Pamela and her daughter were helped to move out of the homeless shelter and start a new life!

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What makes someone so special that they are elected to a Hall of Fame?

Is it talent?  Or personality?  Maybe just right place at the right time?

Bob Costas was inducted this week into the broadcasting wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame.  When you hear people talk about Bob today they refer to his sense of craftsmanship.  I knew Bob a few decades ago in St. Louis and people said the same about him then.

“I’ve always been someone who was serious about the craft, so I would review my tapes, and even if it was a good broadcast…  I can always pick up something, if it was a matter of timing or selection of words, where if I had just done it slightly different it could have been done just a little bit better.”
~Bob Costas

There is no music format in need of a craftsmen’s work as the Christian music format.  Why?
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