For nearly half a century, radio people have made the pilgrimage to Minnesota carrying airchecks, résumés, ratings stories, programming theories, bad jokes, great ideas and enough call-letter memories to completely…
There are moments when the microphone stops being a microphone. It stops being the place where we sell a record, introduce a morning-show bit, tease what is coming after the…
Some radio transactions are about spectrum. Some are about market position. Some are about portfolio strategy, revenue projections, real estate, translators, tower sites and whatever other words we use when…
There is something about radio non-competes that becomes harder to defend the longer you think about it. A broadcaster gives a company five years. Maybe ten. Maybe twenty. They wake…
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…
There are numbers in this business that everybody watches. Ratings. Revenue. Shares. Cume. Streaming sessions. Engagement. Page views. Quarter-hours. For decades, radio has measured almost everything it possibly could, sometimes…
There are radio conferences. There are conventions. There are industry gatherings where you pick up a badge, attend a few panels, shake some hands, exchange business cards and head for…
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…
-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…
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…