There was yet another study of the news media the other day, and it contains some interesting material that I'm sure could tell you a thing or two about radio's role in consumers' news preferences. Reading it, however, my mind kept jumping to questions that weren't being ...

The Radio Show Produced by RAB and NAB -- that's how it's written on the banners, at least -- is just about over now, and that means, I suppose, that I need to write something about it. The first impulse is to go find last year's column and cut-and-paste, because, in the ...

It's not like I want to beat a dead horse. Lord knows, I'm tired of the same topics coming up over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. But I've been writing this thing for over a decade, and the same topics keep coming up, It' can't ...

A thought occurred to me after plowing through the last two weeks of convention-oriented Twitter musings, and it applies to radio as well: If I can look at your name, think "liberal" or "conservative," and thus know exactly what you'll say about everything, why should I ...

To which medium did you turn for discussion of the Republican National Convention? If you said you were too busy watching "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo," that's okay, I won't judge you. (I'm not sure whether having a choice between a political convention and reality TV ...

This week, we saw articles proclaiming radio dead and articles proclaiming it alive and well. Does it always have to be one or the other? Because the truth, as always, is somewhere in between. Let's illustrate the situation by first setting forth the situation as I ...

Sometimes, it's the little things that matter. I was driving home from a meeting up in Santa Monica yesterday, and I had the radio on, trying to catch some news, traffic, and sports. The sports report came on. They gave the Dodgers score, the Padres score, an Angels ...

It was buried in the news about schedule changes at the Pittsburgh NPR affiliate: among the shows added to WESA's lineup this week was a program called "WTF with Marc Maron." Huh. That's a reversal. See, "WTF" is one of the most prominent podcasts out there. It's been ...

There was an article I linked to the other day in Talk Topics that announced with great gravity that people don't get any work done in August. That's significant on two fronts, one being that, yes, people really aren't into working this month, and the other being, yes, ...