Radio is still a business. I feel like I have to remind everyone of that after hearing a tale of woe from someone who works at a non-profit, who has been calling radio stations in several markets merely to find out about their public service announcement policies. She ...

First, the bad: It's April Fool's Day. I hate April Fool's Day. April Fool's pranks are generally not funny, and radio April Fool's pranks... well, you know, I'd like to be more of a positive guy, so I'll shut up about them, other than to say that you'd better weigh the ...

If I were able to offer my younger self career advice, I'd tell myself to invest in Apple and Google. No, wait, that's not particularly "career advice." If I'd taken it, I wouldn't have needed a career. But I needed a career, and I ended up in radio, and if I could ...

It was strange. Shortly after a friend asked me about social media and who out there would make a good advisor for radio stations looking to "do it right," I encountered a flood of articles about that very topic. Everybody, it seems, is now an expert. Many of them ...

And sometimes, you have to throw out everything on which you've worked and go with the big story. That's the case Friday morning as I write this. I had a column all written last night, and then awoke to the news of the massive quake in Japan. The column seemed a little ...

There's a highly controversial figure out there. You manage to book that person for an interview, even though you're a little -- or a lot -- repulsed by the prospect. Do you do the interview? And if you do, how do you handle it -- with deference, with decorum, with ...

I don't want to write about radio this week. I want to write about Charlie Sheen. Well, maybe not. (Really, yes; YOU try to come up with something new about talk radio every week) After all, this is a radio column, and even though the latest Sheenquake started on a ...

Not long ago, I was listening to a podcast hosted by some friends of mine. They're standup comics, and they were talking about a problem they've encountered in recent years. The problem is that they're both married guys with kids. Let me reset that. The problem isn't ...

There are no more powerful words in the English language than these: "I don't know." Okay, there are a few pretty powerful words that you can't say on the radio, but other than those, nothing is as simple and powerful as "I don't know." It's the ultimate answer. ...