A Stephen A. Smith Reunion With Pat McAfee May Have No Better Time Than Now
"ESPN has spent years building around star power, and no two stars shine brighter than McAfee and Smith. With New York celebrating its first NBA title in more than five decades, the timing couldn't be better."
The Disappearance of Managers Should Concern All of Us
"A company's greatest assets walk out the front door every afternoon. Whenever they walk out for the last time, the organization has fewer assets remaining inside the building the next day."
Why Oliver Tree’s Death Matters More to Radio Than You Think
"In moments like this, the people closest to the audience may have the sharpest read. "
Bicentennial Nostalgia Offers a Powerful Blueprint for Radio Strategy
"Most listeners alive today have never experienced a national milestone of this magnitude, and most won't see another one."
Radio Stations for Sale: How Profitability Is Reshaping Small Markets
Tradition is nice, but it is not necessarily embraced by advertisers or listeners.
Hot 97 Icon Funk Flex Joins the 2026 Barrett Media Audio Summit Lineup
"For over thirty years this man has changed the game."
Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes Extension Is a Band-Aid, Not a Fix
For years, people compared a 60 Minutes correspondent chair to a Supreme Court seat: once you got it, it was yours for life. This year proved that's not actually true.
Should New Podcast Credit Rules Lead To Questions About Radio’s Three Minute Qualifier?
"If the podcast industry is willing to recognize 30 seconds of listening as worthy of credit over "genuine engagement," then radio has every right to examine whether its own standards should evolve as well."
New Music Friday Evolves As Spotify Bets On Editorial Personality
"The irony is hard to miss — streaming is adding humans while radio considers removing them."
What Radio Programmers Can Learn from Boring Bands About Audience Loyalty
"What we know doesn't work is back-selling and reading liner cards. That is the radio equivalent of being a boring band."
