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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."

Keith Olbermann: Chris Licht Wants Every Voice, Except Oliver Darcy, Heard at CNN

"Oliver Darcy still has not been publicly or non-anonymously supported by anyone else at CNN."

Keith Olbermann: Anderson Cooper is A ‘Failed Marketing Experience’

"I worked with Anderson Cooper at CNN in 2001 and 2002, and I never got his appeal then or since."

Podcast From Rachel Maddow Wins Hillman Prize

“I think all of us are deeply cognizant of the fact that it takes trust and a certain tolerance for risk on the part of our employers to let us chase these things..."

Joe Rogan: Opening Free Speech Comedy Club ‘Good For The Country’

"It is true freedom of speech, and it’s good for Austin, and it’s good for the country and Texas. It couldn’t be better.”

Ted Cruz: Podcasts ‘Incredibly Valuable Tool’ to Reach Constituents

"What I like about the podcast is sometimes the podcast is 20-30 minutes, sometimes it's an hour, depends on what the issue is." 

Keith Olbermann: ‘MSNBC, Like CNN, is Drowning’

A recent commercial airing on MSNBC has caught the ire of former cable news host Keith Olbermann, which led him to declare the network...

Keith Olbermann: ‘CNN is Now Fox News’ After Donald Trump Town Hall Announcement

"It must now be assumed anyone who works on or for CNN are all lying, because they work for a liar, and they appear on a channel dedicated to lying, which has just sold the few remaining shards of its soul to the greatest liar of our time..."

Keith Olbermann: Tucker Carlson’s Twitter Video Was Shot At Rupert Murdoch

"I think some legal type at Fox had already been in touch with Carlson's representatives, and mentioned those three magic words 'Forty' and 'Million' and 'Don't'."

Megyn Kelly: Chris Cuomo ‘Full of Hubris and Dishonesty’

"To just suggest that randos in New York City and you just happen to pull up to them and they're listening? Ok."

Keith Olbermann: Fox News Only Offered Settlement to Dominion After It Found An ‘Atomic Bomb’

"Obviously, there is something else that will come out at trial that is even worse."

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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."

Nielsen Audio Ratings Overhaul Could Reshape Radio Measurement

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.