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You would have to be doing a complete digital detox the past couple of weeks to not know that Queen Elizabeth II passed. The TV coverage alone was pervasive and repetitive. Coverage on [...]

My daughter Lauren works remotely for Bain & Company, a Global 500 business consulting firm with 15,000 employees. The majority of employees work on a hybrid or remote schedule with a small [...]

Great production can help image a show’s brand, make benchmarks more memorable, and help pump up the excitement. But like any sharp-edged tool, production sometimes does more harm than good. Here [...]

Whether it’s breaking rules imposed by management or self-imposed rules, rule-breaking is an integral part of the creative process. Pablo Picasso once said, “Learn the rules like a pro so [...]

Successful shows and podcasts today are usually ensemble casts; A team of two or more strong players contributing equally. The quarterback host makes space for co-hosts. [...]

What can radio learn from industries like health care, marketing and business operations where men and women are hired more equally? In Recruiting Women Takes More Than Just Competitive Pay by [...]

There’s an adage in the film and television business that “if we don’t care about the characters, nothing else matters.” That holds true for radio and podcast shows as well. The likability factor [...]

A young El Paso woman wrote to me about her first radio job. “I want to give it my all,” she said and asked my advice on what to read, learn and study. It has been 39 years since I stood where [...]

Routines are useful, but the downside is they can create rote behavior. In real life, breaking news, a loud noise, or the ping of an incoming text disrupts our patterns and forces us to pay [...]

There are many differences in the listening experience to radio shows and podcasts. Podcasts are more of a time investment, whereas, radio shows are typically listened to in short spurts. [...]