Replacing 34 years of familiarity isn’t something a radio station accomplishes by simply putting another name on the schedule. When Gayle Garton retired from Audacy’s 101.5 Lite FM WLYF after…

There are talent announcements, and then there are moves that say something much larger about where radio could be headed. Zach Sang returning to terrestrial broadcasting on Connoisseur Media’s 99.7…

Something significant is happening at 105.1 in Kansas City, and this one deserves considerably more examination than simply writing format change coming and moving along. Cumulus Media’s Hip Hop and…

San Francisco radio has lost enough legendary voices that another departure shouldn’t feel surprising anymore, but somehow this one still lands like a punch. Lamont Hollywood is out at Cumulus…

There are radio careers measured in ratings books, contracts and airchecks, and then there are careers measured by history itself. Bernie Tafoya belongs in that second category. Later this year,…

Sometimes the most fascinating radio moves don’t require somebody packing a moving truck, changing cities or learning an entirely new market. Sometimes a familiar personality simply crosses the street, walks…

There are layoffs in radio that look like names disappearing from an organizational chart, and then there are days when it feels as though somebody walked into the building and…

There are retirements in radio that mark the end of a job, and then there are retirements that cause an entire region to look around and realize just how much…

I have been fortunate to have seen the highs and lows of this business called “radio” professionally since October of 1974. Before that, though, I had helped to build an…

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…