The answer I found to how radio can still be relevant going forward did not come at the NAB Show, where what's left of the convention's interest in radio has shrunk to postage-stamp size and consists mostly of people in suits repeating the phrase "93% reach" plus ...

Let's pick up where I left off last week. I asked at the end of that column what you would have done had you been given the opportunity to "save" KGO/San Francisco had you been able to go back in time and be there at the onset of symptoms, and I thought the challenge was ...

Amidst all the drama surrounding what was obviously the biggest news of the week in talk radio -- the KGO changes -- let's see if we can learn a few things from the decline and fall, because I've seen a lot of people weighing in, but there's been something, well, ...

There's a little media war going on in Cincinnati over which some folks in the newspaper industry are getting very upset. A little while back, a local TV station decided to put its website behind a paywall, and went out and hired an expanded staff to bulk up its content, ...

Let's clear up a longstanding misperception about talk radio that I think misdirects programmers and hosts. Yes, there is such a thing as "political talk radio" and there is such a thing as "lifestyle talk radio," but the line between them is not as clear as those terms ...

First, I suppose I should tell you what happened to last week's column. There WAS a column, but you'll never read it. That's because after I wrote it, I took a moment, re-read it, and decided to delete it, because it was... oh, let's call it "slightly too harsh," in the ...

Hey, Program Directors! Wait, are there still any PDs in the business? Yeah, I think there are a few. If you're one of them, I want to offer a tip that I think helped me when I was still programming, and I was reminded about it last week when I was stuck for a topic ...

Have you tried Caleb's Kola yet? It's cola with fair trade ingredients, made in batches with cane sugar by craftspeople who lovingly balance just the right amount of carbonation with.... Oh, come on, who are we kidding? It's Pepsi, or at least it's Pepsi's version of a ...

The thing is, we're all thinking in too narrow a manner. We do it in all facets of life. We think in terms of our specific job. We think in terms of our hometown, our favorite team, our political "side." Everything gets filtered, and that's natural, but it colors how ...