This week, I'm at Podcast Movement in Chicago, a conference that is everything the typical radio convention is not: full of enthusiasm, packed with people who want to learn, optimism. And there are some radio people here, too. Everyone is to some extent concerned about ...

In case you didn't notice, a podcast led to a murder conviction being vacated and a new trial ordered. There's a lesson in that for talk radio. I'm not suggesting that what "Serial" did is something you can easily replicate. That would diminish the accomplishment, ...

I've been buying books lately, and by "books" I mean the kind that have actual paper pages and covers and ink, not the kind you read on something that needs to be recharged overnight. This is not an admission of latent hipsterism, mind you. I'm not doing it to be ironic ...

The other week, a friend of mine quit Twitter. He had a large following and a reputation for being alternately hilarious and pointedly, aggressively political in social media, but he was pretty well known there and his departure was a surprise, even though he'd ...

We had an earthquake here Friday morning. I have yet to go to the radio or even TV to find out more about it. It's 2016. That's not how things work anymore. It's a common thing for people to ask the question, "what were you doing when... " or "where were you when..." ...

My fellow All Access columnist and Cumulus digital tsarina Lori Lewis posted something on Facebook the other day about how it was the eighth anniversary of her getting laid off as PD in one of those festive Clear Channel we're-gonna-need-your-key-card events. She related ...

Would people miss you if you were gone? Wait, that's a little general. Let me be more specific: If people suddenly couldn't get your show or station, would they miss you or move on? That's one way to determine radio's value to the consumer, and it occurred to me this ...

A recurring theme in criticism of the radio industry is "you should have seen it coming." Network radio should have seen TV coming. AM broadcasters should have seen FM dominance coming. Broadcasters in general should have seen the Internet coming. And so on, much of ...

At the time I sat down to write this column, it was Thursday night and there's a police chase on TV. I know, I live in the L.A. area, there's ALWAYS a police chase on TV. That's not entirely true, but we do get more than our share of police chases, and so I made the ...