The Fountain Of New Ideas
(By Roy Williams) Today we’re going to look at three different "art worlds." Places where play is the important thing, not targets and goals. After discussing the examples of art worlds, I'm also going to suggest that you create your own.
Blast From The Past: NAB Show 1940
Happy Friday! This week’s Blast From The Past comes from NAB Show 1940 held at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Send your Blast From The Past to our Online Editor Cameron Coats for your chance to be featured.
Third Man Records Lends Support To College Radio Vinylthon
This weekend, more than 200 radio stations across the globe will participate in Vinylthon 2024, dedicating their broadcasts exclusively to vinyl records on April 20 and 21. This unique annual event benefits the College Radio Foundation.
Buffalo Broadcasters To Add Four From Radio To Hall of Fame
The Buffalo Broadcasters Association has announced its 2024 Hall of Fame inductees. This year's class includes a wide range of seasoned radio professionals who have made significant contributions to the industry, from on-air to management.
CapRadio Contests Its Endowment Board Giving Away Tower
The fight over Sacramento's Capital Public Radio is turning bitter as owner Sacramento State is battling the station's endowment board over the board's gift of a transmission tower used by CapRadio to KVIE-TV, who the board now wants to run CapRadio.
OUT NOW: Meet Radio’s Top 20 Leaders Of 2024
Your station is sitting on a goldmine of ad sales - your team just needs to know how to mine it! The April issue of Radio Ink features conversations and advice from the Top 20 Leaders of 2024, plus ideas, inspiration, and training.
With 61,000 In Vegas, Here’s NAB Show 2024 By The Numbers
The NAB Show has wrapped for another year. With an estimated 61,000 attendees learning, presenting, and networking in the Las Vegas Convention Center in 2024, NAB is showing a majority of first-time attendees from across the country and around the world.
The Best Advice From Radio’s Most Influential Women
As Radio Ink celebrates the 25th anniversary of our Most Influential Women In Radio list, we talked to these trailblazers, leaders, and powerhouses about their journeys and the next generation and asked, “what is the best career advice you've ever given someone?”
Women To Watch: SMITH
(By Charese Fruge') SMITH is well aware of radio's hitmaking power. With the success of her 2023 single “Lemon,” she became the first female musician since Billie Eilish to have a song chart at Top 40, Hot AC, Rhythmic, and Alternative radio.
How Long Does It Take To Win An Audience?
(By Jeff McHugh) What makes a show perform is the listener-talent relationship. Winning radio shows and podcasts are about an emotional bond that listeners form with the talent, like a best friend. According to science, that bond takes T-I-M-E.















