They're remaking "Clueless," which came out in 1995, and the practically unanimous reaction on social media has been "no." That's been my reaction to every proposed remake -- no, the original was good enough. Never mind that the original "Clueless" was itself sort of a ...

What business are you in? Nah. Okay, partially nah. You're still in the business of generating content, and monetizing it. But defining what you do as "radio" or "podcasting" is missing the point. You're in the marketing business. That's because we're in the age of ...

I don't wanna talk about radio today. I don't wanna talk about the demise/scaling back/diminution of NextRadio. I talked about the problems with FM tuner chips in cellphones ad nauseam for years, from the elimination on many phones of the headphone cord antenna option ...

There was a piece by Tom Haberstroh at Bleacher Report this week, a story about the NBA's social media obsession and what compelled Philadelphia 76ers guard JJ Redick to delete his Twitter and Instagram accounts and go cold turkey, a phrase that's apropos because social ...

Have you watched "The Good Place" yet? If you haven't or you're not aware of it, "The Good Place" is a TV sitcom, and since I'm not in the habit of recommending TV shows in this column, let me say up front that there WILL be a point to this that involves radio and I will ...

Anyone interested in where the podcasting industry is heading probably experienced a world-class case of head-spinning this week. We saw one of the giants of the current business, Panoply Media, abandon the podcast production and network business, choosing to dump the ...

The first sign of trouble was the beach ball. If you use an Apple computer, you know the beach ball. If you use Windows or Linux, it's the little tumbling hourglass, or just a freeze. But whereas normally the beach ball -- also known as the "spinning pinwheel," or by ...

Over the years, I've written a lot about the wide, wide world of talk radio, literally about how wide a spectrum "talk radio" can and should cover and how there's room not only for traditional political talk but talk about all sorts of non-political things. That's how I ...

Here we go again. A report this week by Nielsen repeated the statistic that radio remains the number one medium for reach, which means that the reach thing is going to keep reverberating through the halls and conference rooms at every radio gathering for at least another ...