Think you could do this? A yogurt company is offering to pay $10,000 to participants who complete a monthlong “digital detox” with their phone locked in a box. Siggi’s Dairy says the program was inspired by “Dry January.” The company is accepting applications through January 31. Ten people will be selected for the digital detox and will have to keep their smartphones secured for one month in a lockbox provided by Siggi’s. The selected winners will receive $10,000, a phone lockbox, a “good ol’ fashioned flip phone” with a one-month prepaid SIM card and a three-month supply of Siggi’s yogurt. You can sign up at https://hello.siggis.com/digital-detox
Ed Histed
Ed launched his radio career in 1975 and has spent more than five decades in the broadcasting industry. During that time, he has served in a wide range of roles including Air Personality, News Director, Sales Manager, Operations Manager, and General Manager at numerous radio stations in various markets across the country. Beyond on-air and management responsibilities, Ed has also worked extensively on the technical side of broadcasting. His background includes RF engineering and information technology, with particular experience configuring digital automation systems and remote voice-tracking platforms used by stations across the country. Ed was also among a select group of industry professionals invited by Google to its California headquarters following the company’s acquisition of Scott Studios. He was one of just 12 broadcasters nationwide chosen to participate in discussions and provide input during the design and rollout of Google’s digital broadcast automation platform. Although the majority of Ed’s career—spanning roughly four decades—was rooted in music radio, he transitioned into news and information programming in 2012. He says the move into spoken-word broadcasting was a natural evolution after decades of experience in multiple areas of the industry.