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Dolly Parton gave America so much for so long. It's only fitting that her hometown station gave her the send-off she earned.

"Programming is supposed to be about developing talent, building brands, creating opportunities and preparing the next person to take the next step. When the person responsible for doing those things becomes part of the talent lineup, the priorities inevitably become blurred."

"The greatest radio personalities weren’t merely voices coming through a speaker. They were bigger than life and became part of people’s lives."

"YouTube’s willingness to pay creators to stay should be a wake-up call for sports radio. Stop giving the platform millions of hours of content every month for free."

The show already draws the largest audience in cable news, and adding a proven personality only strengthens that position.

I have been downsized and fired. I know your emotions. You have every right in the world to be angry. Here is the truth: it doesn't help you to disparage your former employer.

I looked at the statistic with stunned silence. Yes, I was reading it on a plane at 35,000 feet. But for a few seconds,...

"If you want us to look away when you're committing business malpractice, you've come to the wrong place."

"When a broadcaster can create the kind of reaction that Mulligan’s departure generated, and when a brand can withstand decades of change and still command that kind of attention, there is still plenty of life left in both."

The great philosopher, Seneca, put it well centuries ago: "We suffer more in our imagination than in reality." Few situations in recent media memory fit that quote as neatly as this one.