Over the years, I've written a lot about the wide, wide world of talk radio, literally about how wide a spectrum "talk radio" can and should cover and how there's room not only for traditional political talk but talk about all sorts of non-political things. That's how I ...

Here we go again. A report this week by Nielsen repeated the statistic that radio remains the number one medium for reach, which means that the reach thing is going to keep reverberating through the halls and conference rooms at every radio gathering for at least another ...

I still listen to the radio. Most people do, even if they won't acknowledge it. The industry beats everyone over the head with that "93% reach!" statistic, and, yeah, most people encounter radio in their daily lives, in the car or in a store or when the alarm clock -- ...

Last month, there was an article at The Verge about people who broadcast to nobody. Specifically, it was about the gamers who stream their play on Twitch and don't get a single viewer. Why, the article examined, would someone stream their game play and commentary on ...

The theme from "Jaws" was playing in my head while I was at Podcast Movement in Philadelphia last week, and it wasn't because Mark Ramsey was giving a talk about lessons learned from his producing the fine podcast "Inside Jaws." No, it was a sense of foreboding, the ...

On Friday morning, I was on a panel at Conclave 43 in Minneapolis, or maybe St. Louis Park. I'm never quite sure where the border is. It might be Golden Valley or Edina for all I know. Anyway, they had a podcast panel and it was a good one with Dave Beasing moderating ...

An industry notices that its audience is getting smaller and older, and publicly agonizes over ways to stem the tide, trying to face the fact that their product doesn't have the same appeal to people under a certain age. Sound familiar? Yeah, but radio isn't the only ...

I don't have to tell you to go see "Won't You Be My Neighbor?," the Mr. Rogers documentary, because you've either already seen it or your friends and acquaintances have been badgering you to see it for the last couple of weeks. It is, however, that good, and it will make ...

The tributes to the late, great Dan Ingram this week were well-deserved and moving. Few radio hosts have inspired so many people to pursue careers in this industry; as someone who grew up hearing Dan Ingram cracking one-liners on WABC, I can confirm that he made radio ...