This week's column is for you talent-type people out there. Producers, too, and programmers. Sales and management folks, you can go do whatever it is you do. Okay, so, this week, it's Advice From the Former Program Director Guy, and it comes from recently being ...

The Moment of Truth came while I was driving around town on my usual errands -- post office, grocery, bank, that sort of stuff. I had the radio on as usual, talk show on, host interviewing someone who'd written a book, when the thought hit me: Why am I listening to ...

There's been plenty of talk about the Connected Car lately, and I've made my own thoughts known on that subject before, so I'll leave all of that to someone else (Joel Denver covered the conference on the topic in Detroit for Net News last week, Fred Jacobs has been ...

One of the things I left out of last week's Epic Rant was something I commented on in the live version of the diatribe, a reaction to the previous speaker, Alpha Broadcasting and L&L Broadcasting founder Larry Wilson, who stressed "live and local" as a key element for ...

On Thursday, I delivered a version of the following as an introductory presentation for a panel at the Talkers Conference in Hollywood. Before I did it, I told friends that I expected about half boos and maybe a smattering of applause. They were too polite to boo, but I ...

I'm not going to repeat my views on AM revitalization in addressing the flap over Clear Channel and WLW's Darryl Parks' blog post on the topic and the responses he got from several quarters. You can read about Darryl's post and Fred Jacobs' response here at All Access. ...

I've been trying out iTunes Radio, the Next Big Threat to Radio As We Know It. It's... okay, I guess. Kinda like Pandora. It's nice to be able to customize music, but, like the other customizable music offerings, it's repetitive and bland, too. At least you can skip ...

This week, the New York Times devoted a column to the quest by FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai and radio industry leaders to "rejuvenate AM radio." At the NAB/RAB Radio Show Jamboree in Orlando next week, Pai will be there talking about the same thing, as he did in Las Vegas ...

So, at Thursday night's NFL season opener, Ryan Seacrest stepped onto the field during the opening ceremonies in Denver and people were OUTRAGED. I mean, Twitter and Facebook just MELTED DOWN from all the outrage. HOW DARE HE, people sputtered. Because, you know... ...