The radio industry wasted no time in congratulating itself for its service during Hurricane Irene, and, for once, it was at least in part justifiable. Many stations had a lot of which to be proud. There were stations pumping out great coverage under difficult ...

One night, a while ago, I idly looked out the window and saw flames leaping from a fence. At once, I sprang into action: I grabbed a handy fire extinguisher, ran to the fire, pulled the pin, squeezed the trigger... and the trigger snapped. So I was standing in front of ...

What's been most interesting to me about the big stories in the talk radio business over the last month or so has been how so much of it is throwing conventional wisdom out the window. That's a good thing, by the way. For everyone who, like me, has spent the last ...

Having been a program director means that you can't listen to the radio without thinking like a program director. This is a problem insofar as thinking like a program director gets in the way of being entertained and/or informed. It's a constant "when is he gonna give ...

I did it again. I wrote a column, looked at it several times, and decided that it just didn't work. Total time wasted: several hours over two days. This, of course, could have been avoided by a simple thing that I rarely do but you, as a talk show host, should always ...

So you're talking about the debt ceiling debate, and you're doing what talk radio does and picking sides and talking about who's winning and who's losing and who's to blame. You're taking about the Tea Party hardliners and the President and giving the play-by-play. But ...

One of the things that's most interesting to me about the tech industry is something that you don't find in traditional media. It's a form of fearlessness that radio, for one, just doesn't possess. I'll give you a couple of examples to explain what I mean. Have you ...

I was in a ballroom in a hotel in Minneapolis Thursday morning, at a table safely in the deep back corner, all set up to report on the Conclave Learning Conference, when the table filled up with local college students, there to learn and network themselves into lucrative ...

Once upon a time, believe it or not, most people didn't think talk radio belonged on FM. In that paleolithic era, the cry became "FM is for music!" We know today, of course, that this attitude was remarkably short-sighted and doomed. Okay, so that was a couple of years ...