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- AND ANOTHER THING, WASH POST, BONNEVILLE…
I’m still mad about the half-assed attempt you guys made on Washington Post Radio. (See previous post for details and links.) In retrospect, it sounds like one of those enterprises nobody but the guys at the top wanted. And they didn’t want it enough. It sounded unfocused, and nobody got around to really troubleshooting. Putting [...]
- Radio — still in the real estate business.
Eleven years after the FCC opened the U.S. commercial radio business to corporate consolidation, the radio station trading business still dominates the attention of everybody in the business. First, it was about who could buy the most stations, and in short order, all the prime stations in the biggest markets were in a few hands. [...]
- Should music be free?
Internet radio stations are currently something of a Web cause celebre; should musical artists collect more money from the Websites that play their music for profit? To rehash an older tussle, should any kid with an MP3 player and a computer get free copies of anybody’s creation, just because? Should commercial on-air radio stations get [...]
