It's telling that several of the FCC Commissioners had the same reaction I did when asked what impressed us most about the International CES this year. My answer and theirs: 3D printing. Not an entertainment device, not communications, but the future, machines that can ...

Sometimes, I think I missed the boat on really monetizing this "talking about talk radio" racket. I'm about to give you my observations about the state of the industry as we enter 2013, and you're getting it free. What I should have done is declare myself an expert, put ...

So, talk radio people, are we better off now than we were a year ago? Yeah, didn't think so. 2012 was a mixed bag for the format, but after L'Affaire Fluke, at least people in the business started to confront the issues they'd avoided for years, the lack of development ...

Sometimes, you just gotta get out of the office. I mean that figuratively as well as literally. But this morning, it was literal. This week, I'm at another talk radio convention, the Talk Show Boot Camp in New Orleans, and I woke up Friday with the absolute ...

Okay, now, see, I have a point I want to make about talk radio, and it comes from my observations about the election. Yet, I don't want this to get entangled too deeply in the political part. Between the gloating of the winners and the whining of the losers, I've had ...

Let's get the important stuff out of the way first: There are a lot of groups working on relief efforts in the area affected by Hurricane Sandy, and if you can help, whether by financial donations or sending material goods or volunteering to help people there, that would ...

Hurricane Andrew cured me of taking storms less than seriously, and by that I mean seeing the aftermath of that storm, driving around South Florida while my wife pointed at places where she used to live south of Miami, saying, "it's not there anymore," over and over ...

So, radio's going to be cool again? Great. Looking forward to it. This should go well. I'm referring, of course, to the story in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week about how Clear Channel's Bob Pittman is working to change radio's dowdy image among marketers ...

Some lessons learned early in life stick with you forever. An example that has remained relevant in my life came when, as a young child, I was exposed to the highly accurate historical documentary series "The Flintstones," which depicted the daily lives of prehistoric ...