Category: For What It’s Worth…

I walked into my first radio station in 1965. Still in High School — wide‑eyed, curious, and convinced that radio was the closest thing to magic a human being could touch. More than sixty years later, I’ve seen the industry rise, fall, reinvent itself, and lose pieces of its soul along the way. I’ve seen…

AM Radio’s Slow‑Moving Train Wreck: Tower Losses, Temporary Facilities, and the Coming Ownership Squeeze For what it’s worth: The AM band is entering one of the most precarious chapters in its century‑long history — and not because of noise floors, electric vehicles, or digital transitions. This looming crisis is far more basic: land and the…

No, Virginia — the FCC did not walk back the FRN/CORES update rule (in my opinion).There’s been a lot of debate recently suggesting the FCC reversed or softened its new requirement that all FRN holders must update their CORES information within 10 business days. After reviewing the February 6 Public Notice, the original Public Notice,…

“Once upon a midnight dreary”…or similar thoughts along those lines, I find myself lying awake in the middle of the night, trying to wrap my brain around the implications of recent (and not so recent) trends developing in and around the monetizing of government (think Credit Mobilier, Teapot Dome, Lincoln Bedroom, “Clinton Cash”, Trump International…