I got a coupla ideas. Normally, I save my Great Format Ideas to Save Talk Radio for people willing to pay me for them, which means they never see the light of day. (The offer still stands, by the way.) But these ideas are more in the vein of Things Talk Radio Should Be ...

The first monthly ratings affected by the pandemic are arriving, and while there are exceptions, the share bump for news and talk radio materialized as expected. Naturally, I have some likely premature thoughts about this, because I always do. One of the striking things ...

A lot is being written about what radio should be doing now to respond to the coronavirus crisis. Not a lot is being written about what radio should be doing now to prepare for what comes after the crisis. Let's fix that now. We've talked ad nauseam about emergency ...

Every morning, I open the front door at sunrise and stand there for a few minutes looking at the world. The sky is still blue, the trees and grass green, the air heavy with morning dew and pollen. It's the same as always. But it isn't, and as the day progresses, the ...

Reminder: Someday, we don't know when, this will be over. Another reminder: Someday, when this is over, whatever we do and say right now will be judged, whether by others or by ourselves. What will Future You think about Present You? I'm bringing this up again because ...

This isn't going to be about radio. Everyone else is writing columns about radio's response to the coronavirus crisis. I already wrote mine last time. You don't need another one. You know what to do. At least, you know what to do on the air. Right now, my concern is more ...

Okay, you know what to do. There are a lot of articles in the industry trades with advice about what radio should be doing to address the pandemic, and I'm not going to repeat their advice; it's all good and you're on it anyway, right? You're providing accurate and ...

Something was missing as I walked around midtown Manhattan this week. I grew up not far from the city, spent a lot of time as a kid wandering around there, and I've returned to New York fairly frequently since then, but something was different this time... and then it hit ...

It occurred to me when the controversy over the new Podcast Academy awards broke out last week that I've never won an award. Not even a participation ribbon. I have friends with Emmy Awards, Marconi Awards, Golden Mike Awards (as in radio, not the Golden Mics that ...