Apparently, Friday is World Radio Day. I wasn't sure what World Radio Day entails, so I consulted Wikipedia and found that it was founded by UNESCO at the behest of the Kingdom of Spain, which information did not help me much, so I read on, and found that the usual ...

It's unfair, I've decided, to liken the people who steered the course of the radio industry over the last couple of decades to dinosaurs. They're more like frogs. I'll explain. You know that old anecdote about boiling frogs? It goes something like this: If you boil a pot ...

This week, the feds finally caught up with Sheldon Silver, and when they did, I thought about talk radio, because I do that sometimes. Let me backtrack a second. If you didn't see the story, Sheldon Silver is maybe the most powerful politician in New York state, ...

It's been remarkable, uncanny, really. I'm not prepared to declare it a scientific survey -- the sample size is, of course, low, and the responses anecdotal -- but it's been so uniform that I have to make note of it. What I'm talking about is that I've asked the same ...

This week's International CES had a message for the radio industry, but it wasn't anything that happened in the exhibit halls, or the panels, or in the coverage you'll read and see everywhere else. Sometimes, elbowing my way past booths crammed with gawkers staring at ...

We couldn't get to the end of the year without a rash of RIFs, a flood of firings, a lot of "let gos." Nobody likes to call these things what they are, so we get euphemisms like "exited" and "replaced" and "pursuing other opportunities," but that fools nobody. Heads are ...

What's the radio show with the most buzz right now? Okay, that's a trick question. "Buzz" defies quantification. It's sort of you-know-it-when-you-hear-it. And you could argue that the various and sundry "Jingle Balls" and "Almost Acoustic Christmas" and similar ...

As I write this in a hotel room in Bloomington, Minnesota, the 2015 Conclave Learning Conference has yet to start, and while I've been waiting, I've been to the Mall of America a couple of times, because it's really the only place I can get to that doesn't require waiting ...

Hey, did you feel the bump? The election bump, that is, the ratings bump you get every two years for a couple of months. You get a little ratings jolt, some of that lowest unit rate revenue that, when times are bad, can really help a Market Manager face corporate with a ...