There is a fundamental question every News Talk programmer eventually has to answer, particularly when a meaningful local daypart opens up: do you fill those hours with another nationally available…

There was a time in radio when becoming Program Director of one major station was enough to consume your entire life, ruin several dinners and ensure your spouse learned more…

Dallas radio doesn’t need somebody whose primary qualification is knowing how to sit through meetings, answer emails and explain why the music log looks exactly like the music log from…

There are résumés that tell you where somebody has worked, and then there are résumés that tell you somebody has survived radio. Riley Couture’s journey from an internship in Tampa…

Some sports-radio relationships are created by contracts, and others eventually become so woven into a market that separating the team from the station would simply sound strange. The Carolina Hurricanes…

I’ve spent enough years programming radio stations to know that finding a morning show is one of the easiest things in this business to do badly. Everybody sounds fantastic on…

There are trophies you put on a shelf, plaques you hang on an office wall and awards that eventually disappear into a box somewhere between an old station T-shirt and…

Austin’s 93.3 has worn enough radio identities to fill a pretty respectable aircheck collection, but its newest chapter may say more about where the city is going than where the…

There is a radio land grab quietly taking shape across Florida, and MARC Media apparently has no intention of slowing down. Only weeks after making its move into Melbourne, the…

Radio consolidation usually conjures images of companies getting bigger by stretching farther away from the communities coming out of the speakers. This one moves in almost the opposite direction. SVI…