What responsibility, as talk radio people, do you have to society, above and beyond getting ratings and revenue? Most of you -- maybe all of you -- will answer that the way it's always been answered: none. Talk radio is entertainment, right? Opinion, no matter how ...

Sometimes, I despair over what I see happening in the radio industry, how the business is being steered in the wrong direction or mismanaged on many levels. And then, just as I'm about to give up and go write about, I don't know, anything other than radio, something ...

This has come up before. I'm going to say it again. When important news, especially important emergency news, happens, radio has to be there for listeners every single time. Decades of fine service can be wiped out in listeners' minds in a few seconds if you're not ...

They're remaking "Clueless," which came out in 1995, and the practically unanimous reaction on social media has been "no." That's been my reaction to every proposed remake -- no, the original was good enough. Never mind that the original "Clueless" was itself sort of a ...

What business are you in? Nah. Okay, partially nah. You're still in the business of generating content, and monetizing it. But defining what you do as "radio" or "podcasting" is missing the point. You're in the marketing business. That's because we're in the age of ...

I don't wanna talk about radio today. I don't wanna talk about the demise/scaling back/diminution of NextRadio. I talked about the problems with FM tuner chips in cellphones ad nauseam for years, from the elimination on many phones of the headphone cord antenna option ...

There was a piece by Tom Haberstroh at Bleacher Report this week, a story about the NBA's social media obsession and what compelled Philadelphia 76ers guard JJ Redick to delete his Twitter and Instagram accounts and go cold turkey, a phrase that's apropos because social ...

Have you watched "The Good Place" yet? If you haven't or you're not aware of it, "The Good Place" is a TV sitcom, and since I'm not in the habit of recommending TV shows in this column, let me say up front that there WILL be a point to this that involves radio and I will ...

Anyone interested in where the podcasting industry is heading probably experienced a world-class case of head-spinning this week. We saw one of the giants of the current business, Panoply Media, abandon the podcast production and network business, choosing to dump the ...