What do you do when there's absolutely nothing to talk about? I mean, totally dry? Okay, that's pretty much how I'm feeling today, but that's because there's no such thing as a Talk Topics column for a column about talk radio. If you people aren't doing anything that ...

Right now, I'm in an empty hotel ballroom, sitting in the back, alone, waiting for the Worldwide Radio Summit to start, with "Party Rock Anthem" booming on the P.A. When I write my autobiography (working title "You Don't Really Need To Read This"), this will take up at ...

Someone in the audience for an NAB Show panel this week, a manager at a college station in the Midwest, stepped to the mic during a Q&A segment to talk about how her station tries to compete in the new media world, and she said that she's aware that her listeners are ...

On this week's episode of the Fox sitcom "New Girl," the character Schmidt, observing roommate Winston, said, "He's listening to the radio and writing with a pen? What decade are we in?" That pretty much says what radio's image is today. It's not good. Radio is ...

On a podcast I heard the other day, the hosts were making fun of radio, more specifically "the rules" of radio. That was because, as podcasters, they don't need to follow those rules. Reset the guest? No need. Repeat the name of the show? Time checks? Nope. Phone ...

Last Tuesday, I spent the afternoon in a room full of media people who were bullish on their future. On Thursday, we had to report on a wave of layoffs. Guess which medium was which? Trick question. Same thing. (Unless you don't think of streaming audio or podcasts ...

The little corner of the world in which I live has plenty of issues. There's the neverending battle between environmentalists and developers over what open space we have left. There's the impact of the state's budget woes on local services. There are school issues, ...

You know what's nice? Puppies. Puppies and rainbows and bright sunny days. They're all nice. Hugs! Yeah, I don't feel like writing about Talk Radio's Biggest Crisis Since the Last One again. I guess I have to, but I'm doing it under protest. That's because so much ...

After over a week of the Rush Limbaugh thing, the most memorable thing for me was reading this line in the Los Angeles Times: "This is more serious than what we have seen before," said Jeffrey Berry, a Tufts University political science professor who studies radio and TV ...