How did it feel to get thrown under the bus again? What, you didn't know you were down there under the 23 bus from Center City to Chestnut Hill? You didn't notice the oil dripping on you, the Goodyears leaving tracks on your back? Huh. I saw it happen. Your own ...

It's nearing the end of the year (please hold your applause until DECEMBER 31st), and the question I get asked more than any other this time of year is "GET ME A JOB!" To which I customarily respond, "that's not a question." But the spirit of the request is noted, and so ...

In the wake of the election, what now for talk radio and its OH LORD I DON'T CARE MAKE IT STOP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. Seriously, I dreaded having to write yet another navel-gazing piece about post-election talk radio since I've ALREADY WRITTEN THAT AT LEAST THREE ...

Why do you listen to radio? Entertainment, yes, and companionship. Maybe some background noise, or there's something going on in the news and you want more about it while you drive to the dry cleaners. Perhaps you want to listen to music but don't want to have to program ...

Some of you are going to be reading this column next week, after Tuesday, and if they've invented time travel by then, could you come on back to Friday and let me know if we survived? Because it's hard to tell as of this writing, what with the rhetoric and stress and ...

When you think about it, the idea that "Talk" is a radio format is kind of ridiculous. We don't say that "Music" is a format; instead, it's about genres. Top 40 isn't Rock isn't Classic Hip-Hop isn't AC, and while there are overlaps and crossovers, there's generally a ...

You know the line. When William Holden's cynical writer Joe Gillis first meets Gloria Swanson's faded movie queen Norma Desmond in the classic "Sunset Boulevard," he blurts out in recognition, "you used to be big." Her response is always on the lists of most memorable ...

What was your News-Talk station doing last Friday night? Before you answer that, allow me to backtrack a little. There have been general assumptions governing the way talk radio has programmed stations since the advent of the format, assumptions based on a combination ...

The thing about emergencies and radio is that the ones you see coming are really just tests for the ones that blindside you. First, the ones you see coming: I'm gratified that I've heard some excellent work from several radio stations in the path of Hurricane Matthew, ...