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Ever wonder what it sounds like when hundreds of radio producers who haven't seen each other in ages mill about in a hotel ballroom stocked with free drinks and a kind-of-ridiculous-but-undeniably-tasty mashed potato bar? Whether or not your answer is yes, check out this neat, 7-minute "crowd sculpture" recorded by sound artist Glenn Weyant, who just happened to have his recording equipment on hand (imag… Continue

Happy to announce that this year's Post-Ceremony Hoopla location is set to commence immediately following this year's Awards Ceremony on Saturday, October 11th. It was harder to find a place in Evanston, because we're unfamiliar with what happens where up there, but Union Pizzeria has kindly agreed to stay open (past the usual 11pm closing time) until 1:30am, just to serve drinks and snacks to a bunch of gussied-up radio producers from around the count… Continue

I'm back from the PRPD Conference in Los Angeles, which in some ways felt like a great way to warm up for the TCF Conference. Tons of radio folks gathered for a few days to talk of nothing but radio, develop and deepen connections among colleagues and friends old and new, and push the boundaries of necessary sleep allotment. It was fascinating to put some faces to voices to names - (… Continue

We're pretty excited about a few new elements of this year's Conference (and thanks to Mr. Jay Allison for encouraging us to keep surprising folks, as well as ourselves...). At first all of this newness was to be contained in the… Continue