Dive into the archives.
- Radio guys running newspapers. [Cringe] Make that “ruining.”
Check out Eric Alterman’s piece in The Nation.
- Pandora fans, rejoice. Radio guys: read, weep.
Pandora rocks the iPhone.
- White Space
Both Google and Microsoft are pressuring the FCC to allow a new class of wi-fi communications in the space to be vacated by U.S. TV stations when they go digital in 2009. I can tell you the TV people, much less the radio guys, never dreamed their spectrum space would ever be coveted for anything [...]
- What he said, but…
Jerry Del Colliano is writing about Last.fm today. They’ve just opened up their music library for free requests on demand, with ads. Jerry says they’ll fail with young people, because young music fans want to own their music. Could be. Jerry’s reacting to a Motley Fool commentary that claims Last.fm will kill broadcast music radio. [...]
- News Break, ala MarconiDreams.com
This just in: I’m sitting here listening to Dinah Washington on my computer, from Last.fm. They just rolled out free on-demand listening by artist. Just go to the site and type in an artist’s name, and bingo, you’re listening to that artist. You only get one track at a time, and there’ll be an on-screen [...]
- And…we’re back.
My self-pitying tone of the other day notwithstanding, I’ve decided I’m not shutting down Marconi Dreams, the blog. It’s a good mental health device. I’m going to post here every day, if I think I have something readable to write. Because I care about your mental health, too. Speaking of which, I’m convinced that radio [...]
- RADIO WITH PICTURES?
Here’s an article from BBC, about a radio station’s new digital ability to send stuff to little screens. Like song-and-artist readouts on my Sirius satellite radio. Some of the stuff they’re talking about and even experimenting with — in Britain, where digital radio is already big — is pretty close to, well, TV. With digital [...]
- MEET JERRY DEL COLLIANO
I did my post for today on his blog. This is the guy who started Inside Radio, which was the first and last new-media innovation in the radio business: a fax, back in the 80s. He was the trade pub guy the radio business loved to hate. He spoke truth to power. He sold out [...]
