I suppose I should this week address the annual Pew Research Center "State of the News Media" report, because it was in the news and it's, in part, about this industry. Pardon me, however, for a decided lack of enthusiasm on my part, based on a few things, namely: It's ...

Okay, first, it's that time of year again, and leave it to me to put a charity pitch before a radio column with which I bet a lot of you will disagree. But I don't have a radio show to spread the word, so this'll have to do. As you may remember from my incessant pitches ...

The radio industry will take whatever can pass as good news wherever it can get some, so the report issued by Arbitron based on Census Bureau statistics about commuting, plus a study of Canadian PPM data showing people staying put and listening longer through traffic ...

Like millions of other Americans, I'm not in the market for a new car. I saw a report the other day about how the average household can't afford to buy the average new car, and, well, yeah, that. I'm praying that my car -- model year 1999! -- lasts forever. But I ...

"They don't do dedications anymore, do they?" It was Thursday, my wife's birthday, and she was musing about what people do to send their greetings. She'd gotten the requisite Facebook messages from friends and family, but she's an old radio hand, too, and for some ...

I was all set to write about the coverage of the Christopher Dorner stand off, and the prank call, and then other things came up and I decided that I could dispose of all of that in a couple of sentences. So, here goes: 1) If you don't want to get pranked, you can at ...

First, let me say that I would not at all object to having an FM radio tuner in my cell phone. I don't know how much I'd use it, but I wouldn't go to the Apple Store and demand that they remove it. It might come in handy during those stretches of my daily run where ...

Ever since the PPM came into being, we've seen talk radio stations take a dive in the Holiday book, or phase, or month, or whatever we're calling it now. And by "take a dive," I mean that some stations practically crater. Every time this happens, those of us in the ...

There's a list -- well, it's an "infographic," which is another way of saying "a list put into graphic form because we can" -- put together by Mozy, one of those online backup companies, showing what they call "50 Things We Don't Do Anymore Because Of Technological ...