I was sitting in the back of an empty hotel ballroom Friday morning, bereft of ideas for a column. Other than the location, this follows my regular Friday morning routine, but with the additional complication that it meant I'd have to write this thing at the same time as ...

The theme of this week's NAB Show in Las Vegas was "The M.E.T. Effect," which on one hand gave the signal to every amateur comedian in town to make a Yoenis Cespides joke or something like it, and on the other hand signaled nothing, because it was a stupid slogan. The ...

Remember "Radio Heard Here"? Oh, sure you do. It was all over the NAB Show in Las Vegas back in 2008, with the Las Vegas Convention Center draped in garish orange ads showing "the kids" rocking out to their transistor radios. It was the answer to the people saying that ...

Internet outrage and, about equally, schadenfreude were in full bloom over the last couple of weeks, courtesy of the repeated self-inflicted wounds of folks like United, Pepsi, and Sean Spicer, and while I'm as astonished at the ham-handed responses of those in charge as ...

Spring is always touted as a time of renewal, of hope, a new start, unlimited possibility. The countryside is in bloom, baseball season has begun, the days are getting longer, the sun is shining... everything's looking up. Except if you're in radio, which is always in ...

Thursday, I was about to drive a pizza home from the shop to its rightful place on my dinner table when I checked Twitter and discovered that Atlanta was on fire, or, more specifically, I-85 was on fire, at the very spot where, every time I visit, I think, man, this city ...

In past columns, I've talked about how radio is missing a bet on talk radio, specifically that there is not one single winning formula and that stations taking a different approach can win. And some readers -- and, sometimes, I myself -- construe that to mean competing ...

One of the essential elements of radio's success over the decades has been that the medium is uniquely suited to providing a feeling of companionship, a personal connection that's different from the engagement you get from social media, different from the more passive ...

It occurred to me while listening to the panels at the Talk Show Boot Camp this week that what talk radio needs is a therapy session. There was a significant amount of self-congratulation by radio people here about the talk and news formats' good ratings fortune in ...