The average commercial radio listener in America is not looking for lofty, intellectual subjects. This isn't brain surgery. It's about striking the passion of the people.
A lot of my fans are people who have grown up and don't have as much time to listen to the radio, but still want to keep up with what's popular. A lot of shows don't talk to them anymore, but I do.
Radio for years and years looked at the same pool of talent. I always believed there were other people in the world that could do radio shows.
If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.
Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.
Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.
I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.
Everyone has their own opinion about what should be on the radio and I think there's room for all different people.
I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners.
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
Country radio has been so supportive.
I have a real issue with radio these days. I just am not into the current music.
The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.
Air America has tanked because it features a bunch of talentless, angry demagogues who wouldn't know how to entertain a radio audience if their lives depended on it.
To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of job.
A lot of people hear the records on the radio, they aren't absolutely sure who exactly Tears For Fears is, they just know they like the song.
