Showing posts with label Humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humor. Show all posts

Saturday, May 09, 2009

Playfulness Promotes Productivity

Do you have a humor bulletin board at your workplace? David B. Posen, MD, recommends one. He says that humor reduces stress and builds creativity. He spoke to the British Columbia Association Of Broadcasters' convention yesterday and says he spotted this on the wall at a hospital:
"Due to cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel will be turned off until further notice."

One fun exercise he led us all through: brainstorm as a group a new punch line to a well-worn setup. The BCAB group, he said, came up with more good ones than he had ever experienced before, which shows what happens when you get a room full of radio and TV people together. Maybe you had to be there to fully get this one, but it made me laugh: "My hometown is so small that...... (wait for it) the CRTC only granted three licenses there."

Monday, February 16, 2009

Does Your Station Have Listeners With Windshields Like This?

Tori Peck, producer of KSON, San Diego's Cliff & Company morning show got this emailed from a listener, who wrote:
"you will see a picture of my windshield covered in coffee. I was listening your show and Tanner made some hilarious comment right when I was drinking coffee. The picture is the result..."

Monday, March 03, 2008

Why We Shot Down That Satellite

Nashville songwriter Thom Schuyler hasn't blogged for about a year, but his fertile mind is back in action and his first post in too long a time is well worth a read: One Citizen's Conjecture

Meanwhile, if you want to nominate some things you hope were NOT in there, email me.

.. For example: the solution to ARB's PPM and diary sample placement woes?