He owns two radio stations in Aspen. And they only have two minutes of commercials an hour. As they say on the broadcast, you’re only two minutes away from music.  If all terrestrial stations adopted this paradigm, could the terrestrial radio band have a resurgence, could it dominate? We all hate terrestrial radio.  Because of […]

Satellite radio has not been the same since Lee Abrams’s departure. I don’t want to be an apologist for Mr. Abrams, but that sluts video that got him fired at the "Tribune"…he was Dixie Chicked.  There was no uproar at first.  It was all after the fact. Not that I believe the "Tribune" staff shouldn’t […]

He played "You Never Give Me Your Money"! And "Dear Mr. Fantasy" and… Howard’s on 24/7 on Sirius.  And they replay the best segments on Friday.  But if you miss it, you miss it forever.  That’s radio.  And sitting in traffic listening to Howard interview Billy was pure heaven, I didn’t want to get out. […]

They just called me from "Marketplace".  They wanted some quotes on the new Michael Jackson album. You know it will sell because of pent-up demand, because he died, because it’s the fourth quarter, but that’s not why I’m writing this. Almost two years ago, I got a phone call from Laura Sydell, asking me to […]