Some radio careers begin with a childhood dream of sitting behind a microphone. Others begin in promotions, production or an internship that somehow turns into an overnight shift. Riley Floerke’s…
There are numbers in this business that everybody watches. Ratings. Revenue. Shares. Cume. Streaming sessions. Engagement. Page views. Quarter-hours. For decades, radio has measured almost everything it possibly could, sometimes…
There are two ways radio companies can fill an important programming position. They can conduct a nationwide search, sift through résumés, chase somebody from another market and spend months teaching…
Radio has a funny way of bringing people home. You leave a station. You leave a city. You take another job. Then another. You collect call letters, markets, airchecks and…
Sometimes a company changes its name because somebody in marketing got bored. This is not one of those times. Good Karma Brands is becoming Good Karma Sports, and the new…
Sometimes the best radio stories aren’t about ratings. They aren’t about format flips. They aren’t about acquisitions, restructuring or another round of cuts. Sometimes they’re about somebody getting another shot…
There are layoffs that change a lineup. There are layoffs that change a radio station. And then there are decisions that make you look at the entire direction of an…
There are morning shows that get syndicated slowly, carefully adding an affiliate here and another one six months later. Then there are mornings when somebody at corporate apparently looks at…
Some radio layoffs hurt because a talented broadcaster loses a job. This one hurts differently. Michelle McKormick isn’t somebody who arrived in Grand Rapids three years ago, learned how to…
Fourteen years is an eternity in modern talk radio. Formats change, owners change, audiences migrate, platforms explode, careers rise and fall — and through all of it, Chris Salcedo has…