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- Radio Follies.
HD Radio got a lot of attention at the Computer Electronics Show. Uh huh. Now there’s considerable buzz about the new “song tagging” feature they’re talking about adding to car radios. Radio stations encode digital info about songs they’re playing. The listener can push a button on his radio and save the information, so he [...]
- RADIO IN 2008; WHO KNOWS?
I really don’t see the point of writing a hopeful post about American commercial radio. If you follow the radio trades (see a list in my right column), you’ll find the recent buzz was all about Clear Channel’s seeming company-wide, country-wide firings of seasoned, successful employees — local radio stars in some of the major [...]
- Another voice. A little more positive.
Sean Ross is a former radio trade publication editor and reporter who now works for a radio research company. He has a blog called The Infinite Dial, in which he tiptoes along the frayed tightwire of comment on a fractured industry and its many issues. In his latest post he does a pretty skillful balancing [...]
- RADIO NEEDS THIS GADFLY
Jerry Del Colliano makes me want to get tougher on radio on this site. Jerry, the founder of Inside Radio, which he sold a few years ago to Clear Channel, the biggest radio station consolidator, went on to become a USC professor. Now he writes this blog called Inside Music Media. I just made sure [...]
- 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 [...]
- MY NEW TAGLINE
I just updated the description of this Website’s purpose. I started out thinking this would be just a site about U.S. broadcast radio, which is where I started my so-called career. I’ve decided it ought to be a little broader, since, for one thing, “radio” isn’t a closed system anymore. Used to be you had [...]
- ARBITRON’S PEOPLE METER IN THE DITCH
Enough radio biggies have raised enough Cain now, so Arbitron, the radio ratings monopoly, has delayed the rollout of its new electronic listening-spy gadget. In its initial outings, some stations that appeal to young adults digitally lost their audiences. Arbitron’s been trying desperately to juggle their samples to try to keep the customers simply peeved [...]
- DIGITAL NIGHT SOUNDS — A NEW BUG FOR AM RADIO.
We’re in the midst of a digital revolution in all media, and radio is no exception. You’re hearing about “HD Radio.” But not hearing much of it yet, because U.S radio is just now switching over to digital broadcasting, and the price of a digital radio receiver is still ridiculous. But these are not the [...]
