You know of course that Rush Limbaugh is gone. You also know that many people are dancing on his grave singing hallelujah. You might be one yourself.

I am not hear to dance upon his grave, as I’m generally not into grave-dancing. Actually I normally wouldn’t post anything at all, but as a political junkie who worked in radio (to include news/talk ( Read more... )

Art Bell is gone, which means finally he may finally find the answers he was looking for.

If you don’t know, Bell was the late-night talk radio host of Coast To Coast AM, in which he and his guests and callers explored UFOs, aliens, Bigfoot, various supernatural and paranormal phenomena, and government cover-ups of all the above. Bell was X Files ( Read more... )

I have returned from the US, and I’ve more or less recovered from the jet lag and the 15-hour flight.

It was mostly the same deal as last year: a road trip from Chicago to Maryville-Alcoa and back, by way of Carbondale, Nashville and Cincinnati (rather than Indianapolis). Overall it went smoothly, apart from the occasional debilitating illness. ( Read more... )

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And now, college radio humor!

What the program director says:


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Ever since Classic Rock™ emerged as a radio programming format, the challenge has been to define just what qualifies as “classic”.

Back in the 90s, it was relatively clear-cut, at least to me - classic-rock was defined by both time period and sound. It didn’t include anything from the 50s, and very little before 1964, when The Kinks invented power ( Read more... )

Casey Kasem passed away a couple of weeks ago, but I was neck-deep in travel and work, so I didn’t have time to write something about him. Now I do, and there’s really no way I can’t blog about him.

Not because of the family melodrama over his healthcare, which doesn’t interest me at all, but because - like a lot of people my age - Kasem was an ( Read more... )

I’ve blogged before about the decline of radio as a channel for breaking new music, which is due to both online competition from the likes of Spotify and the effect of consolidation on radio programming (i.e. there’s a reason you hear the same “classic” hits over and over and over again).

Now, according to the Wall Street Journal, new research ( Read more... )

And now, here’s a very big infographic explaining the impact of media consolidation on the radio and television business.

For a start, it’s why Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs Robinson” is in rotation on at least one radio station in every city in America.

( Big graphic and wordy essay commence ... )

Coming up on Episode 50 of this series, and people ask: “How come you haven’t mentioned The Eagles yet ( Read more... )