Recently, Howard Stern interviewed MSNBC host and one-time Air America anchor Rachel Maddow, and the conversation eventually drifted to...

Shocking! Some radio shows evidently use voice actors instead of authentic callers! The entertainment programs (and we are talking...

A reader sent me this note recently: Dear Mark: As a radio copywriter, one of the largest frustrations I’ve had is never knowing how our...

How about a t-shirt that says what Arbitron and the NAB and the RAB cannot:

Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me. And (as of this writing) he has a quarter...

One of the most important things you should do as you prepare to launch a new station is to gather the contact information for all the...

A manager or an entrepreneur? From Alan Webber's terrific new book: Rules of Thumb (Interview coming soon to this blog): Managers favor...

But it's also a time for perspective. Change does not come without pain and trauma. Check the fossil record and you'll see what I mean....

Now I have nothing against the "Radio Heard Here" campaign, other than the fact that it's a non-solution to a non-problem dressed in a...

Those are the folks now in their teens and twenties who are doing their best to up-end every aspect of media we used to take for granted....

From the rumor mill: Renda Broadcasting's WSHH-FM (99.7) and WJAS-(1320) ceased their online broadcasting feature on January 1, 2009 "due...

Here's a piece I was interviewed for in a local San Diego paper, The Reader, that is a fairly well-balanced take on the local/non-local...

That's the question on the lips of most of our industry's bigwigs. More than one has asked me this, personally. After all, more folks...

Saturday Night Live is enjoying its best ratings in more than a decade. It’s not because the show is better wall-to-wall than it has been...

Interview from WBUR with the author of this new book about the birth of American Radio: Click the “Listen to this show” link. My favorite...

From MarketingProfs (registration may be required): if consumers are listening to a mix of songs that are relatively similar (eg, all...

They’re the perfect gift for that radio station in your family that is already running a slew of free HD Radio spots and is hungry for...

“it’s a little about Olay and a lot about you.” Does that sound like your radio station’s website? I doubt it. But what if it did?...

“You are not what you play, you’re the benefit of what you play.” Even if the benefit is getting airline travelers into their seats...

From Radio Ink: Poll: Nearly Half Favor Government-Mandated ‘Balance’ In Media ASBURY PARK, NJ — August 15, 2008: Forty-seven percent of...