I guess we're gonna have to get used to the idea that every time they do the "Holiday" ratings, all-Christmas stunting will dominate. It's confirmation of the obvious: in December, a large portion of the American public is thinking about Christmas, and the stations that ...

My college didn't have a real radio station. That was not ideal for someone like me who really, really wanted to do college radio, but that was how it was. The school actually had one of the very first college-owned stations, back in the 1920's, but gave it up in one of ...

Remember way back when everyone was arguing over whether talk radio rhetoric caused the Tucson shootings? Man, it was a heated debate. But that was a long time ago.... Okay, it was a couple of days ago, but it SEEMS like forever. That's because the news cycle is ...

The link on the New York Times website this week described this week's International Consumer Electronics Show -- you can call it CES -- as "An Electronics Show That Media Companies Dare Not Miss." The article talked about how all the biggest guns in the media industry ...

For the last column of the year, I thought I'd write about... ...well, we've pretty much exhausted every radio topic, haven't we? The issues facing the radio industry at the end of 2010 are the same ones it faced a year ago. I suppose you could look at that as a ...

"I must be listening to too much sports talk lately." That was a friend talking the other day. Okay, that got my attention. Why? "Because the same guests show up on both stations within thirty minutes of each other. That's lame." He was talking about his two local ...

"If you could tell the people who run radio one thing, what would it be?" That's one question I asked my Impromptu Focus Group at that social network project on which I'm working, the one I told you about a few weeks back in this column. I'm going to use this week's ...

So I started plowing through all the newspaper websites bright and early on Thursday to find material for the Talk Topics column, same as every morning. (All right, "bright" is not quite the right word for starting at 2:45 am. "Early" works, though) Right at the start, ...

Excited, all you political talkers out there? You should be. After all, Tuesday is your Super Bowl... wait, is the presidential election your Super Bowl? Because that would make the midterms, what, the AFC Championship? Or maybe the presidential election's your World ...