There are hires that fill an opening, and then there are hires that tell you exactly what a company is looking for in its next generation of programming leadership. Beasley…
Some radio stations simply change formats, but others leave behind a hole in the dial that listeners can almost feel. 100.7 The Bay WZBA belongs firmly in the second category.…
There are some audiences you market to, and then there are communities you have spent decades growing alongside. Urban One belongs in that second category, which is why the launch…
There are corporate decisions that might make perfect sense around a conference table but look completely different when they collide with actual human beings, and the situation involving Damon Darling…
If 107.3 KMJK could talk, it might politely ask Kansas City radio management to stop moving its furniture long enough for it to figure out where the couch belongs. This…
Replacing 34 years of familiarity isn’t something a radio station accomplishes by simply putting another name on the schedule. When Gayle Garton retired from Audacy’s 101.5 Lite FM WLYF after…
Yesterday, On The Dial asked one very simple question: Why? Why would Cumulus Media clear the programming and personality ranks at Power 105.1 KCJK, including experienced Kansas City broadcasters like…
There are talent announcements, and then there are moves that say something much larger about where radio could be headed. Zach Sang returning to terrestrial broadcasting on Connoisseur Media’s 99.7…
Something significant is happening at 105.1 in Kansas City, and this one deserves considerably more examination than simply writing format change coming and moving along. Cumulus Media’s Hip Hop and…
There are radio careers measured in ratings books, contracts and airchecks, and then there are careers measured by history itself. Bernie Tafoya belongs in that second category. Later this year,…