I was six months into my role as Managing Director of Eagle Television in Mongolia when our station–the first independent TV station in Mongolia’s history, and the only local Christian television station on the Asian continent –was forced to shut down as the result of a longstanding disagreement between its business partners. I was devastated. Eagle TV was founded for … Learn More
Christians need to speak the language of the culture in which they live. But is incorporating the secular diluting the message of Christ? There are many schools of thought on this issue. Here’s my take. I was in my office at Eagle TV having a meeting with a few ministry staff. We were talking about ideas for our ministry programs, … Learn More
It was my first day of work at Eagle TV in Mongolia. I had just been installed as the new Managing Director. I was managing a team of 80 people producing daily television programs on Mongolia’s first independent TV channel. Part of my first day was for my assistant manager to give me a briefing on station operations and how … Learn More
It was a hush hush operation. With just a few people sworn to secrecy, we packed up a TV station into a container and hauled it away to a secret location. We were off the air and we weren’t coming back anytime soon. A battle over issues of contribution and control of Eagle TV in Mongolia had been raging between … Learn More
One of our board members of Eagle TV in Mongolia was Roger Stewart, who used to say this to me all the time, “Tom, you can never make a good deal with a bad person and you can never make a bad deal with a good person.” It was 2004 and I was living in Mongolia. I was engaged in … Learn More
I sat across the table from my opponent. Talking to this man was so frustrating that I could barely stand it. My assistant translated everything he said, but I could tell she wasn’t buying what he said either. He lied, and lied, and lied. Soon he was lying about the lies he had just told me and he kept on … Learn More
Here’s an oldie from 2008, ten years ago, but still relevant today. Where did you get your Bible? I’m sitting in my home office, my desk covered with four different Bibles used during my weekly work-at-home day of Bible study development. One of these Bible’s is my wife’s old hardback NIV that the publisher released with the cover mistakenly printed … Learn More
This will be my last word on the controversy regarding Eagle TV’s abandonment of neutrality and fairness in its political reporting. Eagle news өөрийн замаа алджээ. Гэхдээ найдвар байна. I have been reminded that most TV stations in Mongolia report with great bias. But I am not concerned with most stations. I am only concerned with Eagle News. I was … Learn More
The journalist sat in my office at Eagle TV to tell me one thing, “I am afraid.” I had just concluded a meeting with our news department. We were discussing our strategy for how we were going to cover the 2005 presidential election in Mongolia. I outlined a strategy and practical steps that would enable us to push the envelope … Learn More
What do you want to be remembered for? I’d like to think that the last ten years of my life will be remembered by my friends in Mongolia as positive ones—except for maybe one thing. I flicked a booger at the nation. I had been in my role of Managing Director of Eagle TV in Mongolia for only a few … Learn More
