Writing about the radio business for over 20 years means that you end up repeatedly banging your head against the wall over the same topics, because, let's be honest, a lot of it hasn't changed in decades and there's only so much new stuff you can find in a generally static industry. Sometimes, the problem you want to talk about doesn't really have a workable solution.

Here we go again.

I noticed that a station that has always been live/local around the clock is going to voice track overnights now, and it was jarring, partly because it was one of the last holdouts and partly because I saw the news on a day that illustrated why radio needs live programming around the clock. But I also recognize that the economic argument was lost years ago, stations aren't going to budget for even minimum wage overnight, and that's just the way it's going to be.

I'm in Terminal 3 of McCarran International Airport awaiting my flight home after CES 2019 while Elvis singing "Do the Clam" plays on the Terminal PA. Three days is all I can take of the Strip, so after over five days, I'm... lets call it tired and leave out the psychosis ...

They released the 2019 Coachella lineup this week, and the reactions were... interesting. My Facebook news feed was full of indignant comments from folks who lamented the pop acts that have largely replaced the more alternative and eclectic artists of past festivals ...

The main thing I'm taking away from the year in radio and podcasting is that we're all being held back by old thinking. You want an example? How about The Breeze? No, I'm not talking about the soft adult contemporary format itself. It's a reaction to a market ...

What responsibility, as talk radio people, do you have to society, above and beyond getting ratings and revenue? Most of you -- maybe all of you -- will answer that the way it's always been answered: none. Talk radio is entertainment, right? Opinion, no matter how ...

Sometimes, I despair over what I see happening in the radio industry, how the business is being steered in the wrong direction or mismanaged on many levels. And then, just as I'm about to give up and go write about, I don't know, anything other than radio, something ...

This has come up before. I'm going to say it again. When important news, especially important emergency news, happens, radio has to be there for listeners every single time. Decades of fine service can be wiped out in listeners' minds in a few seconds if you're not ...

They're remaking "Clueless," which came out in 1995, and the practically unanimous reaction on social media has been "no." That's been my reaction to every proposed remake -- no, the original was good enough. Never mind that the original "Clueless" was itself sort of a ...

What business are you in? Nah. Okay, partially nah. You're still in the business of generating content, and monetizing it. But defining what you do as "radio" or "podcasting" is missing the point. You're in the marketing business. That's because we're in the age of ...

I don't wanna talk about radio today. I don't wanna talk about the demise/scaling back/diminution of NextRadio. I talked about the problems with FM tuner chips in cellphones ad nauseam for years, from the elimination on many phones of the headphone cord antenna option ...