Something was missing as I walked around midtown Manhattan this week. I grew up not far from the city, spent a lot of time as a kid wandering around there, and I've returned to New York fairly frequently since then, but something was different this time... and then it hit ...

It occurred to me when the controversy over the new Podcast Academy awards broke out last week that I've never won an award. Not even a participation ribbon. I have friends with Emmy Awards, Marconi Awards, Golden Mike Awards (as in radio, not the Golden Mics that ...

Once upon a time, radio hosts were given sage advice about the topics they chose. Talk about what's important to the listeners, they were told. Make it eye level -- imagine what your listeners experience in their everyday lives and talk about those things, the things that ...

Gotta say one thing for talk radio. At least we have an idea where it's going. We can't say that for sure about music radio, at least the part involving people talking into microphones between the songs and commercials. I was thinking about this when the news broke here ...

What are you gonna talk about now? In an age when it seems that every topic and genre of talk radio or podcasting has been done to death, it's daunting to be plotting out your future and wondering if there's anything you can do that would stand out. The same-old won't ...

Well, we can't say we didn't see it coming. What happened this week was just another step in the progression that started many years ago. Dayparts began to be automated. Voice tracking replaced live and/or local hosts. Newsrooms shuttered. Those, you noticed. And when ...

CES is over, and after spending the week in Vegas looking at gadgets and sitting through endless panels and presentations, my Big Takeaway -- it's the law that every reporter and pundit at CES has to have a Big Takeaway -- is that a) nothing new happened, b) artificial ...

Some things never change. All Access is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2020, and I've been here for most of that. In that time, one of my recurring themes has been the radio industry's seeming inability to develop talent on a level that would attract truly creative ...

What do people really think of radio? More to the point, do they think about radio at all? There was a story on local TV news here in L.A. the other day about local residents protesting the electric companies' decision to turn off power in fire prone areas every time the ...