You know that thing Beloit College does every year with their "Mindset List"? The one that lists things that incoming freshmen know and don't know and are too young to know? The one made up of random and sometimes useless trivia seemingly designed to make you feel ...

What's next? There are plenty of media observers who will tell you they have the answer. The future, they'll tell you, is in podcasting, or streaming. It's in voice command. No, it's radio, because radio's not dead after all. It's all video -- we all have to pivot to ...

It wouldn't quite be accurate to say that we learned this week to think before you post things on social media. We -- I'm assuming you're neither Roseanne Barr nor Bryan Colangelo -- knew that already. But what's obvious to most people still gets some folks in trouble, ...

Yeah, I know. It's the day before the long Memorial Day weekend. You're not thinking about the radio business, or the podcasting industry, or anything other than getting an extra day to sleep in, or go to the beach, or whatever it is you plan to do with your down time. ...

Pop quiz! A big non-weather-related emergency breaks out in your market. It's big enough to make instant national news. You're a talk station with a strong news department and the "news authority" position in your market. What do you do? a) Drop all regular ...

Why did you want to work in radio? I've asked that here before. I'm asking that again because I suspect things have changed. But back to the question: Why? What was it that made you think that radio was what you wanted to do for a career? Was it the excitement of ...

Cars are dead. You saw the news, right? The stories about Ford killing off all but two non-SUV, non-truck, non-crossover models because nobody wants a plain ol' car anymore? They are, they don't, that's it. All over but the shouting. Regular ol' cars are past tense, ...

When I started in radio, it wasn't even a question that however many people it takes to create and perform a talk radio show, we weren't going to attain that number. We just didn't have the budget, I was told. Use an intern. The intern's already a call screener? They ...

A sure sign that a convention is encountering an existential crisis is when the slogan for this year's edition is the same slogan as last year's, especially if that slogan is, shall we say, lame. And so this year's NAB Show slogan was "The M.E.T. Effect," a meaningless ...