Things change. You know that. Radio hasn't changed. You know that, too. That's, um, not a good combination. You know that. One of the things that kept coming up at the recent NAB show is the industry taking another crack at redefining the competitive market for ...

While I was watching the Sixers beat up on the Nets Thursday night, something strange started happening. Right in the middle of plays, the cable system to which I subscribe would abruptly go into a local commercial break, playing promos for the system and cheesy local ...

In the end, after four days of the same old thing at the NAB Show in Las Vegas this week, one thing stuck with me. "Here's the beauty of podcasts," Raw Voice and Blubrry CEO Todd Cochrane told an audience member during the question-and-answer portion of one of what ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote something about the effect that discarding experienced radio personnel diminishes the industry's institutional memory, with the older jocks and managers and staffers taking their been-there-done-that knowledge with them out the door and leaving ...

Nobody hates radio. I thought I should say that up front, because a lot of commentary about radio starts with the assumption that there are mobs of people trashing radio as, I don't know, an old-people medium, dead as a doornail, the past. There are a handful of pundits ...

Hey, big radio companies! You want to seize on an opportunity, right? I got one for you right here. News. Wait, come back. I know, it costs money and all that. There are lots of places to get news. Facebook is monopolizing news. Got it. But hear me out. You ...

The news this week of the launch of yet another self-proclaimed attempt by a startup to become "the Netflix of podcasts" drew the same response from practically every pundit that I had: Is there really a market for subscription podcasting? I'll leave the specifics and ...

If there's an industry that's more steeped in nostalgia than radio, it's hard to imagine it. Okay, maybe baseball, but that's it. Radio people have always been a little obsessed with the Good Old Days, swapping stories and complaining that today's radio isn't worthy of ...

They're closing Bedrock. That's Flintstones Bedrock City, to be precise, a small theme park and RV camp near the Grand Canyon, there since 1972. I saw reports about the closing and there was a line about a Phoenix TV station calling it a "must stop for kids" as recently ...