You can feel it when something in radio is different. Not better. Not worse. Just different enough that everybody in the building starts paying attention whether they admit it or…
Radio doesn’t always wait for permission to recognize greatness. Sometimes it just shows up, calls it out, and lets everybody know it’s time. That’s exactly what’s happening with Brion O’Brion,…
Yellow Springs, Ohio didn’t feel like it was trying to make history on Thursday. It felt like history had simply decided to show up again, dust itself off, and take…
There’s a conversation happening in radio right now that doesn’t always make the noise it deserves. It’s not flashy. It’s not always breaking news. But it’s steady, it’s real, and…
You can measure the state of American radio by how it whispers bad news. For years, the conversation around Cumulus Media was carried in caveats: “They’re doing okay in key…
Arrowhead Stadium is usually about noise. The kind that shakes press boxes and drowns out everything but the moment. But today wasn’t about football. It was about voices. Students from…
The desert air will feel different next week in Las Vegas. It always changes a little during NAB week—the hotels buzz louder, the taxis run hotter, and the strip hums…
I can still hear it—the pulse that felt like a broadcast from another planet. The first time Planet Rock hit my ears during a Friday night mix show, it didn’t…
There’s always a moment at the NAB Show when you realize the theme of the year. You wander past the glossy booths, the billion-dollar buzzwords, the coffee-fueled pitches about “reimagining…
Something strange is happening in this business right now. Signals are still humming, playlists are still rotating, clusters are still operating… but behind the glass? There are gaps. Real ones.…