Not all that long ago, typical practice was to put spoken word formats on AM stations, and music formats on FM stations. That’s changing now, with the migration in many markets to FM of a number of former AM-only news formats. How has it affected the news-gathering operations of these stations? In a number of unexpected… Read More: News On FM Radio Is Drawing A Younger Audience »

An age-old question, to be sure; here’s a quick summary of a recent survey from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The article has a link to the full survey and results.   Posted by Tim Morrissey

“Broadcast news writing in general has been declining because the quality of the teaching of English has declined.” Just one of the many sage observations made by veteran TV news writing guru Merv Block in this article from the RTDNA.   Posted by Tim Morrissey