There should have been a goodbye. Thirty years of KISS 95.1 deserved somebody opening a microphone, taking a second, and saying thank you to Charlotte. It deserved a final sweeper.…
WMEX 1510 in Quincy has ceased operations, taking 101.1 W266DQ with it and bringing another chapter of one of Boston radio’s most recognizable names to an abrupt end. What makes…
For nearly thirty years, I’ve heard our industry tell the same story about what happens when disaster strikes. The electricity fails, the internet disappears, cell service becomes unreliable, and eventually…
There is something wonderfully appropriate about a radio station that once had thousands of Washington residents fighting for its place on the dial deciding that local conversation belongs at the…
There is something about nighttime radio that daytime broadcasters will never completely understand. When the traffic finally settles, the television goes off and the rest of the house is asleep,…
Jeff Pohjola has spent much of his broadcasting career reporting on Washington State, from the Seattle waterfront and the legislative battles in Olympia to the nuclear cleanup controversy at Hanford.…
John Crenshaw has spent enough years in Ohio radio to know how this movie ends when somebody starts using the word restructuring. This week, his latest chapter in Columbus came…
I was at the final Conclave in Bloomington earlier this month, but I was not sitting in the room for the syndication session that brought TJ Taormina, Mason Kelter, Tony…
Ed Levine started Galaxy with one radio station, a willingness to bet on Central New York and an operation that famously traced its earliest days to the back of a…
John Goforth did not arrive at the top of Hubbard’s podcast business because somebody decided podcasts needed a digital guy who had never smelled burnt coffee in a radio sales…