Last week our general manager Paul Jacobs asked everyone in our office to envision what the ideal radio station looks like in 2030 — if it’s built from the ground up. It’s a tough challenge for most of us who spend our waking lives constantly juggling daily industry news, monthly ratings, and quarterly budgets. The challenge is…

AI may be taking over the world, but some brands are pushing back. And they’re trying to make the human touch a defining difference of how they do business. Is there a “there there” for radio?

Life is all about choices and risk. So, is radio. And our #TBT blog post is all about those characteristics in the person of Dr. Ruth Westheimer. This radio pioneer passed away last week, and today’s post was a tribute we wrote about her back in 2015 for our “Radio’s Most Innovative” series. I was fortunate to be able to ask her a few questions, and she graciously responded. Dr. Ruth was truly a radio risk-taker.

Did you see the announcement yesterday that Skyview Networks signed a YouTube star to host a radio show that will be called “Classic Rock U?” It’s hosted by a guy you probably haven’t heard of from a small town in Idaho. I caught up with him recently, and got the chance to interview him for this blog. He is nothing short of remarkable, and I predict, so will this show be.

“Is rock dead?” That’s a question radio and label execs as well as music critics have been debating for years. And how do they explain the classic rock phenomenon, a sub-genre of rock that has kept the music alive and popular? In today’s JacoBLOG, we not only let the data do the talking, but we turn over the conversation to analysts who have made it their mission to better understand music’s impact on pop culture – and on US. Get ready to nerd out.