The lockout ended and the crisis averted, Major League Baseball is back, and I can stop inserting qualifiers like "if and when the season starts" into stories about changes to the announcing crews. The games will be played, and old guys can breathe a sigh of relief. Old ...

Would it be out of character for me to be optimistic? Because that's where I'm heading today, for my occasional Let's Look At The Bright Side column, which I haven't actually done since (checks archive) 2013. 2013? Huh. Fans of Grumpy Whiny Me, please bear with me. This ...

What do you do when someone steals your act? Talk radio needs an answer, but, then again, so does all of radio, and any other medium that's grappling with how to maintain its reason for existence when newer media have taken over. Let's focus on one thing, though: ...

You may have noticed that last week's column was a little short. This week's will be short, too, because I've been busy with various issues involving my relocation to South Florida (motto: "Whatever You Do, Don't Make Eye Contact"). I keep having to bail on work to rush ...

Sunday is another World Radio Day, which is, like National Radio Day and National DJ Day and National Beaten-Down Morning Show Intern Day, roundly ignored in the U.S., not only by the general public but by the radio industry itself. Other than a few jocks posting their ...

Why do you listen to radio? Entertainment, yes, and companionship. Maybe some background noise, or there's something going on in the news and you want more about it while you drive to the dry cleaners. Perhaps you want to listen to music but don't want to have to program ...

Do you know what your listeners want? By now, you should be aware of "We Don't Talk About Bruno," one of the biggest hits in America right this minute. (Don't make me explain it.) It's huge, and it's everywhere... except radio. Radio won't play it, because it's, well, ...

It ended in the same place it began twenty six and a half years ago, a cafe a few steps away from the ocean in Hermosa Beach. It was in that precise spot that we looked around at the beach and the sun and the rollerbladers and skateboarders and volleyball games and a ...

A long time ago, thirty years ago, in fact, I thought talk radio would be different. We were doing different things where I worked, and I made the assumption that, since it was working, we'd be moving away from old-guy angry political talk radio to something more ...