There's nothing wrong with radio that a little self-awareness couldn't help. That became apparent to me with the rash of breathless news this week from the -- oh, I hate this cliche -- Powers That Be. (That be what? I know, it's from the New Testament, but I don't ...

Bear with me here -- despite how it'll start out, this one is not going to repeat the pop culture talk wish-list that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. There's a larger point. I just have to wade back into the pop culture thing to get there. And so.... The other ...

Lately, the "radio is dead" chorus has been a little quiet, which has cleared the way for another chant to be heard: "TALK radio is dead." And in the last few weeks, there's been evidence presented to that effect, namely sharp declines in listening for some talk stations ...

It's one of those weeks I've told you about before -- the ones where I get, like, three-quarters of the way through writing a column and then, for whatever reason, decide that it doesn't work, and I trash it. This tends to happen at deadline, or even later, so... that. ...

Let me warn you at the outset: This week's column is all observation with no solution or conclusion. I'm just gonna make some trendspotting statements, throw out a few gross generalizations, and then get out of the way. DOES ANY OTHER COLUMNIST ADMIT THAT? I think ...

In past columns, I've mentioned how I believe that the definition of "talk radio" has become too restrictive, that there are other options besides political talk that, I believe, can work. Today, I'll offer one of those options, free of charge, there for the taking for ...

If you watched the NBA draft this week, you saw the team I follow pretty much blow itself up and start over. The way pro basketball teams do that is to go to the draft, trade away their remaining stars for draft picks, and resign themselves to a year or two of suckitude ...

So, a bunch of radio folks, including myself, gathered Thursday in San Diego for the hivio conference organized by Mark Ramsey and Jaime Solis, with a lot more watching online, and the concept was to bring like-minded, forward-thinking radio people together to hear and ...

There's a great anecdote about radio from, of all people, Rick Moranis on the Nerdist Podcast this week. (Listen to the whole show here; there are a lot of "SCTV" and "Ghostbusters" stories, as well as why he walked away from acting while still getting steady work, and ...