Maybe the way to go is nonprofit. Hear me out. I'm not talking converting talk radio into public radio. Public radio does just fine as it is. I'm talking philanthropy. Community service. Preserving, or rebuilding, a source of news and opinion for the public interest. ...

In retrospect, we could have seen it coming decades ago. You radio geeks will remember. It was when FM finally took hold and we got the kind of format separation that is now industry-standard. No longer did listeners have to put up with Top 40 stations that played ...

It's closer. I suppose I should define what "it" is. It's the day when radio loses its strategic advantages of ease of use, ubiquity, simplicity. The playing field's getting a tiny bit more level. You knew it was coming, and it's not quite here yet, but it's one step ...

Why do people use your product? That's a simple question that anyone in business needs to ask of themselves. For the radio industry, there's plenty of research to indicate the answers -- it's always part of Jacobs Media's Techsurvey, for one example -- but it came to ...

Things change. You know that. Radio hasn't changed. You know that, too. That's, um, not a good combination. You know that. One of the things that kept coming up at the recent NAB show is the industry taking another crack at redefining the competitive market for ...

While I was watching the Sixers beat up on the Nets Thursday night, something strange started happening. Right in the middle of plays, the cable system to which I subscribe would abruptly go into a local commercial break, playing promos for the system and cheesy local ...

In the end, after four days of the same old thing at the NAB Show in Las Vegas this week, one thing stuck with me. "Here's the beauty of podcasts," Raw Voice and Blubrry CEO Todd Cochrane told an audience member during the question-and-answer portion of one of what ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote something about the effect that discarding experienced radio personnel diminishes the industry's institutional memory, with the older jocks and managers and staffers taking their been-there-done-that knowledge with them out the door and leaving ...

Nobody hates radio. I thought I should say that up front, because a lot of commentary about radio starts with the assumption that there are mobs of people trashing radio as, I don't know, an old-people medium, dead as a doornail, the past. There are a handful of pundits ...