The radio industry is closing out the first quarter of 2026 with a wave of restructuring that is no longer speculative—it is active, visible, and already impacting people across multiple…
To the owners, operators, and decision-makers of broadcast radio stations across this country: I am writing to you today not just as an industry observer, not just as someone who…
There are some conversations in this business that happen out loud… and then there are the ones that happen in hushed tones, in hallways, in text messages that start with,…
Something strange happened over the weekend in the outskirts of Chicago. Silence. Not the kind where nothing’s playing… The kind where something is about to. A station that people had…
There are two kinds of General Managers in radio. The kind that make you better… and the kind that make you update your résumé during your lunch break. I’ve had…
I’ve heard a lot of silence in radio over the years. Dead air will make your heart stop. A dropped network feed will make a grown program director start praying…
Every once in a while, this business does something rare. It stops. Not completely. Radio never really stops. There’s always a board lit up somewhere, a song rolling, somebody talking…