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…
(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…
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…
Indianapolis Radio Mourns Matt Bair as a Familiar Voice Leaves Behind a Mission Far Bigger Than Traffic
There are people in radio whose job is to tell listeners what’s happening. And then there are people who eventually use the microphone to tell listeners something that might save…
Barry The Reazar Richards Dies at 83 and Radio Has Lost One of Its Wildest Most Fearless Originals
There are broadcasters who had great careers, and then there are broadcasters whose careers read like somebody dared them to see how many corners of the entertainment business they could…
Personal Health Editorial From Steven Mills President and Publisher On The Dial
-Behind Every On The Dial Story Right Now Is a Man Fighting for More Tomorrows- Since it’s birth, I have believed that the greatest responsibility we have at On The…
Chicago Radio Has Lost One of Its Own as Buda Quan Leaves Behind a Legacy Bigger Than the Microphone
There are broadcasters whose careers can be reconstructed from old playlists, ratings books and station histories, and then there are personalities whose real legacy lives in the people who remember…
Do You See Me: How Josh Liljenquist Reminded Me And Maybe Radio What An Audience Is Really For
There are stories I write because I’m a broadcaster, stories I write because I’m the President and Publisher of On The Dial, and stories I write because something happening in…
The Radio Industry Says Goodbye To A Giant Harvey Stone Leaves Behind A Legacy That Will Never Fade
Every once in a great while, broadcasting loses someone whose influence reaches far beyond the stations they managed or the ratings they celebrated. It loses a visionary. It loses a…