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"For over thirty years this man has changed the game."

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.

"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."

"The irony is hard to miss — streaming is adding humans while radio considers removing them."

"What we know doesn't work is back-selling and reading liner cards. That is the radio equivalent of being a boring band."

"For radio station teams, the lineup is just one corner of the 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle that is event production."

Here’s the question: Will another research company have an opportunity to overthrow King Nielsen? Will radio and audio measurement change? I expect we’ll see a new landscape by the end of the decade.

The 2026 Barrett Media Audio Summit presented by Point to Point Marketing is under three weeks away. We believe uniting the industry matters. Joel...

"The story is that ESPN has completely changed its philosophy. For decades, ESPN sold the network. It sold SportsCenter. It sold highlights. Now it sells personalities."

"For years, ESPN has been criticized for what it wasn't doing. Not enough promotion. Not enough storytelling. Not enough attention paid to certain properties. Fair or unfair, those critiques have followed the network through multiple eras. But right now, those conversations feel very distant."