What If Radio Loved People Like Josh Liljenquist Does?
There are people who build audiences because they want to be famous, people who build audiences because they want to sell something, and people who eventually realize that having millions…
Rick Thomas Returns to Honolulu — And Malama Media Group Just Put a Serious Programming Heavyweight in the Chair
There are programming hires that require a lengthy explanation of why the pieces fit. This isn’t one of them. Malama Media Group has named veteran programmer Rick Thomas Senior Vice…
(UPDATE) Radio Stops Everything for Dolly: Across America, Stations Turn the Airwaves Into One Giant Goodbye — But in Knoxville, WIVK Brings Her Home
UPDATE: Dolly Parton Really Did Leave Us One More Song — And Radio May Someday Get to Push Play UPDATE — 10:23 p.m. CT: Earlier this evening, On The Dial…
Dolly Parton Has Died at 80 — And Somehow the World Feels a Little Less Kind Today
On The Dial Remembers Dolly Parton: Radio Didn’t Just Play Her Records — We Helped Carry Her Voice Across America, and She Gave Us a Lifetime Worth Carrying There are…
On The Dial Is Going to The Last Conclave — And We Are Going to Cover, Celebrate and Send This Radio Institution Out in Style
There are radio conferences. There are conventions. There are industry gatherings where you pick up a badge, attend a few panels, shake some hands, exchange business cards and head for…
Eight Minutes on 106.5 The Wolf Could Change a Life as Kansas City Radio Joins the Search for Steven Mills Kidney Donor
Every once in a while, radio reminds everybody exactly why this medium still matters. Not because of a ratings point. Not because somebody played a massive record first. Not because…
Jack FM Is Back on a Full Power Kansas City Signal and Suddenly 107.3 Makes Perfect Sense
Well, Kansas City radio, there’s the answer. After two weeks of speculation about what Cumulus Media ultimately intended to do with 107.3 KMJK, we finally know where this wonderfully strange…
Kannon Is Coming Back to Atlanta Again and Q99-7 Just Made Nights a Whole Lot More Interesting
Some radio personalities work in a market. Some become connected to a market. And apparently Kannon and Atlanta are simply incapable of staying away from each other. Cumulus Media is…
Nashville Sports Radio Is Getting More Nashville as Greg Pogue and Darren McFarland Take Over Middays on 94.9 The Fan
There is a revolutionary concept quietly breaking out in Sports radio. Putting people on the radio who actually know the city they’re talking about. Wild, right? Cromwell Media is doubling…
Saga Puts Scott Chase and Ryan Ploeckelman in the Programming Drivers Seat and This Is Anything but a Temporary Patch
Saga Communications isn’t simply filling an executive vacancy. It’s handing the programming keys to two people who already know where every curve in the road is. With Senior Vice President…