There is something about this hire that feels particularly good for radio right now. MacDonald Broadcasting is handing Dylan Salisbury the programming keys to its Mid-Michigan cluster and putting him…
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.…
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 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.…
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…
Three months ago, Scott Davidson disappeared from the Northeast Ohio radio dial during a sweeping round of iHeartMedia cuts, taking with him a weekday voice Canton knew, a weekend personality…
Seattle is about to find out how much local news can be removed from a local news station before the identity itself begins to change. Lotus Communications has eliminated Northwest…
I have written thousands of words about other people during my years in broadcasting. I have celebrated promotions, format launches, retirements, ratings victories and careers that deserved to be remembered.…