This One Is Close to Home and It Opens Up Some Very Interesting Questions Every once in a while, a radio transaction lands differently because you actually know the people,…

You Do Not Spend Nearly Half a Century Talking to Western New York and Simply Become an Empty Box on the Schedule There are radio departures that feel like business…

He Left National Radio for the FBI Now He Is Coming Back With Shawn Farash and a Very Different Kind of Show Well, this certainly wasn’t on the radio industry’s…

Dave Crooks Is Not Coming In to Collect Call Letters He Knows Affiliates Have to Make Money Too There are syndication hires that look good on an organizational chart, and…

The Internet Did Not Replace the Radio This Time It Led Right Back to It Radio has spent the better part of the last decade worrying that YouTube, streaming and…

You Can Change a Morning Show Name but You Cannot Erase Twenty Five Years of Local Radio Twenty-five years in morning radio isn’t a job. It’s a relationship. It’s thousands…

There are moments when radio’s ownership rules collide headfirst with the economic reality of operating local stations in 2026, and Magnum Media’s proposed expansion in La Crosse, Wisconsin, may become…

At a moment when radio is spending an uncomfortable amount of time talking about shrinking newsrooms, eliminated positions, centralized content and whether expensive local journalism can still be justified, several…

There are Top 40 formats built by committee, Top 40 formats assembled from research spreadsheets and Top 40 formats that sound like somebody simply dumped the streaming charts into a…

– Why Would You Kill a Format That Was Still Competing – There are format changes you can understand even when you don’t particularly like them, and then there are…