In the last few weeks, we have received several inquiries from broadcasters about the FCC's enforcement of its requirements that broadcasters conduct non-vacancy specific outreach efforts to educate their communities about broadcast employment opportunities and to train their staff to assume greater responsibility at stations and otherwise assist them in their career development (not to train them for their current positions, but to prepare them to assume a position with more responsibilities as their careers advance). Read More

There's a lot of noise out there in radio-land these days. Digital. Internet advertising. Podcasting, Apps, Alexa and many others. Now don't get me wrong, I think that's all important. Very important. But, we may need to slow down for a second and look at an area that is a key reason listeners listen and that is the on air personality. Whether you have talk show hosts or DJ's on a music station, listeners enjoy and more importantly want their local radio stations to have personalities. Read More

Last week, Spotify unveiled a new feature that enables podcasters to add songs to their shows. This overcomes a major hurdle that podcasters have endured for years: music licensing issues which prevented them from legally including music in their shows. The practical upshot of this feature is that anybody (at least, anybody in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand or Ireland) can now become a radio DJ, essentially narrating their own mixtape and publishing it for public consumption. Read More