If you've been paying attention to the news this week, you know that down the road apiece from here, fires have been destroying homes and causing havoc all over northern San Diego County. Now, you're expecting me to decry radio coverage of the situation, I'm sure, but I ...

One more time: On Saturday morning, May 10th, my wife Fran and I will be doing our annual "hey, we're still here! Cool!" walk in the Revlon Run/Walk for Women's Cancer in Los Angeles. We're raising funds for cancer research and treatment through the Entertainment ...

I did some research on the subject, and it turns out it is not yet feasible to freeze time for everyone other than yourself. That, unfortunately, is the only way I'm going to find time to catch up with work and still be able to do those leisure things like sleep. So, by ...

You're missing the point. By "you," I'm talking about the people who got lathered up this week over talk radio ratings and billing and Rush Limbaugh and "Stop Rush" and all that. You know what that was? Irrelevant, really. Some of it was wishful thinking by liberal ...

A word here about interviews in the social media age, coming right up. But first, a word from our sponsor, who happens to be me: Every year, my wife Fran and I walk in the Revlon Run/Walk for Women, a cancer research/treatment fundraiser in Los Angeles, and we ask all ...

I'm not going to even try to claim that having to spend a week covering three separate radio conventions is somehow the hardest of jobs. It isn't. It also isn't fun -- a lot of travel, a lot of, for me, at least, sitting in gray, uncomfortable conference rooms praying ...

This morning, there's a news story about... what? No, not DeSean Jackson. That's for another column. This one is about a guy who went to the movies in Brooklyn and tried to bring in a bag of strawberries because, he says, he's a diabetic and needs to keep his blood ...

I have heard the future and it is... meh. For now. So, you may have seen an item here at All Access yesterday about Tribune Company unveiling a new smartphone app, Newsbeat. What Newsbeat does is, basically, customizable streaming all-news radio of a sort. The goal, ...

One of the first precepts I was told when I was but a young talk radio program director was, "don't put yourself on the air." Actually, it was more like "I never want to hear you on the air," come to think of it, but the idea was understandable. You don't want a PD who ...