Say it never happened. Say there was no consolidation. Say the Telecommunications Act wasn't rewritten in 1996. Say ownership was capped at 7-7-7 the way it used to be. Where would we be now? Would we still be looking at a stagnant industry and wondering what to do ...

You wanna talk about discouraging? Not mild setback disappointing, or Ryan Howard disappointing, but soul-sucking discouragement that takes the wind out of you and makes you wonder about the point of everything? Try sitting through a radio company's post- earnings ...

It's axiomatic that the only constant in life is that everything changes -- Heraclitus, I believe, sort of (depends on the translation), or maybe Kathy Troccoli. (Obscure early '90s Top 40 references FTW.) Either way, we know this, or think we do. Yet the radio ...

A couple of weeks ago, the guy who runs the Philadelphia Phillies, Dave Montgomery, gave an interview to the Bucks County Courier Times (subscription required) in which he explained why the team was not ready to accept the obvious. The obvious is, of course, that the ...

So soccer wasn't anything in America and now it is. That's not true, of course, but it SEEMS that way. Sure, there were AYSO leagues and sparsely-attended (except for a few markets) pro matches, and Premier League matches on cable, but it wasn't a national obsession, ...

For once, there are radio conventions going on and I'm not attending them. It wasn't deliberate -- I had to remain in California for reasons too boring to outline here -- but I couldn't go, so the world is being deprived of my usual irritated tweets from the back of the ...

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. We learn from our mistakes. Insert your own clichés about trial-and-error here. Most businesses spend inordinate amounts of money on research and development with the understanding that some of it will lead to products ...

As is the case practically every time I go to any conference for any reason, I come away with jumbled thoughts. This week is no exception. I was down in San Diego for Mark Ramsey and Jaime Solis' hivio, and you can read all about that here and watch it here for all the ...

Somewhere on the 110 freeway on the drive home from another meeting up in Burbank (motto: "We're Hot! No, Literally, It's Freakishly, Uncomfortably Hot Here!"), something occurred to me about how radically, in just a few years, things have changed for radio in at least ...