Pandora's pushing into cars and building a sales staff. The Mini will have a dashboard display and USB interface so you can stream Net audio from your cell phone through the car's stereo system. On and on and on it goes, more ways for more programming to compete with ...

Remember when talk radio shows talked about stuff like abortion and gun control, and how it was always a spirited but informative debate between reasonable minds on either side of the.... Okay, it was NEVER like that. One of the first things Baby Talk Show Hosts are ...

I've been listening to some great talk radio lately. The hosts give their opinion in a concise and entertaining manner, and they get lots of callers who not only respond to the hosts but end up interacting amongst themselves as well. But it's not talk radio. It's not ...

What did people do to kick around the issues of the day before talk radio existed? Mostly, they sat around and argued amongst themselves. As a kid, I thought that was how it would always be: You got older and argued about politics with your friends at the diner, then you ...

This week's All Access newsletter really was a salvage job from an inadvertent revisiting of a recent topic. Maybe it makes sense anyway: When you do something long enough, you can't help but repeat yourself. In the case of talk radio, that means you resort to your ...

So, is the iPad the revolutionary gadget that will change media forever, just like all the hype said it would be? We won't know that for a while, but, truth be told, that revolution started long ago, and it's going to have an impact on your career. First, let's get the ...

It's been interesting to see the reactions on Twitter and Facebook to the demise of Air America Radio, or Air America Media, or whatever it was officially called at the end. There are the people who are gleeful because they see it as a conservative victory. There are the ...

When the Jay Leno-Conan O'Brien situation imploded the other day, my first thought had nothing to do with the specifics of where Jay would go or what would happen to Conan. It wasn't about whether I was on Team Conan or Team Jay (is anyone on Team Jay?). And it wasn't ...

Have you been following all the news coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this week? You couldn't help but hear about all the latest radios -- every TV report and newspaper column and tech blog was chock full of drooling over the newest and best HD Radios ...