I'm at 37,000 feet over Abilene, Texas. I've never turned a radio on in an airplane, and, whether or not there's really interference that would cause trouble with the flight (and let's not get into THAT debate), I wouldn't do it, and, besides, I didn't bring a radio with ...

Why did you get into radio? That's not a trick question. I really want to know what drove people to do this for a living. Was it the glamour of being that disembodied voice talking to the world? Was it the desire to be famous, or at least as famous as being a radio ...

Aw, (expletive deleted). I did it again. I wrote a column, read it over, read it over again, and, right here at the deadline, running late, I decided... nah. Not quite right. Does that ever happen to you? You start a topic, get deeply into it, and then decide that ...

Before we get going with the radio stuff, can I get one more mention in here that this Saturday, May 11th, Fran and I will be walking in the Revlon Run/Walk for Women in Los Angeles, raising money for breast cancer and other women's cancer research and programs? Yes, we ...

Before we start, one last pitch: Next Saturday, May 11th, Fran and I will be walking in the Revlon Run/Walk for Women in Los Angeles, raising money for breast cancer and other women's cancer research and programs. PLEASE DONATE! Go to ...

One of the best things you can do for your career and your life is to recognize the basic fact and time-honored cliche that things change, and that you need to change with them. Too often, I see the radio industry slow to accept the obvious changes in how consumers use, ...

Okay, I'm distracted by coverage of the Boston manhunt. So are you. And because of that, I'll keep this reasonably brief. What say we just talk about a few takeaway observations from the events of this week? Good, because that's all I got. I thought a lot about what ...

All right, I think I have this figured out. No, really, I do. It came to me while driving home from the NAB Show in Vegas this week. It was striking to me how much of a balkanization there is in the radio industry: This convention was for owners and managers and, to ...

I was going to write this week about the Infinite Dial study, but, you know, sometimes, I just get tired and frustrated in writing about the industry in general. Yeah, I know, radio is alive, except that it's dying, except that it isn't. Younger people are increasingly ...