If there are a billion podcasts out there, sometimes it seems like maybe 750 million of them are interview podcasts. (The rest are true crime, radio drama, and news updates.) Meanwhile, talk radio, which used to, at least in significant part, be caller-driven, is now a ...

Nothing has changed, but everything has changed. Twenty years ago Saturday, I was... okay, it's the standard, cliche question everyone asks on the anniversary of a major event, "Where were you when you heard the news and what were you doing?" For me on 9/11, the answer ...

This week had some shining examples of what talk radio does right. While Hurricane Ida slammed the Gulf Coast, you could hear WWL in New Orleans do what it did so well under impossible conditions during Hurricane Katrina: get the news out, provide critical information, ...

Every year, as it did once again last week, National Radio Day comes and goes without much fanfare. The industry doesn't do anything to recognize it, maybe because it's one of those unofficial holidays that somebody made up for no apparent reason, and what you get is a ...

Have I told you that I can't get AM radio in my car? I can't get AM radio in my car. Happy National Radio Day! Okay, about that AM radio thing -- it's not precisely true, because there IS an AM radio in my car and I CAN turn it on and it DOES transmit sounds. I don't ...

This is how good businesses react to changes in their industries and their target audiences: they actually react. If you find yourself with a business that decides to stick with its old ways even though things are quite obviously changing all around, that decides to go ...

You know you've been doing something way too long when someone is declared an "industry veteran" after five years in the business and you've been in it for a lot longer than that. I get that feeling every year at Podcast Movement (and, come to think of it, at every radio ...

Maybe we shouldn't talk about it. By way of introduction: It was always a cardinal rule of talk radio that there were a couple of topics that had to be avoided, namely gun control and abortion. It wasn't that those topics weren't important and it wasn't that they ...

"What do I need this for?" I open Clubhouse and that question comes to mind. I turn on the radio and the HD Radio signal cuts in and out and that question comes to mind. There's a wider lesson in this. While I've been musing about Clubhouse and its shortcomings for a ...