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  • RadioCentre meets Minister

    PW
    7 Nov 2009 | 1:40 am
    RadioCentre is to host a meeting with Broadcasting Minister Sion Simon MP next week to give smaller stations the opportunity to discuss the Digital Economy Bill and the future of FM radio.Representatives of around 120 small, local and independent stations have been invited by the trade body to consider the implications of the proposed digital radio upgrade. RadioToday.co.uk with RCS

  • Graham Liver for Lancashire

    PW
    7 Nov 2009 | 1:40 am
    Graham, currently the mid-morning presenter at BBC Radio Leeds, will take over from Tony Livesey from January. It follows Tony’s announcement earlier this month that he is to leave to join Radio Five Live.Graham, who worked at BBC Radio Lancashire four years ago, said: “I'm absolutely thrilled to be coming back to Lancashire. It’s the station I grew up listening to and if I was going to do a Breakfast show anywhere then this is where I wanted it to be. RadioToday.co.uk with RCS

  • DAB thriving on Isle of Man

    RM
    7 Nov 2009 | 1:40 am
    Ownership of a DAB Digital Radio set has reached 40 per cent on the Isle of Man, even though none of the major commercial stations on the Island are broadcasting on the platform.During the third Quarter of 2009 the number of DAB sets on the Island grew to 13,460 - up 350 per cent in a year. RadioToday.co.uk with RCS

  • Another Key event for Brown

    PW
    7 Nov 2009 | 1:40 am
    Manchester Station ‘Key 103’ has hosted Prime Minister Gordon Brown in a forum for teenagers across Greater Manchester, offering the youngsters the chance to discuss current issues with the PM.The audience, which included the daughter of murdered Warrington man Gary Newlove and Coronation Street youngster Brooke Vincent, got the chance to put their questions to Brown who has been touring the country in an effort to boost his party’s standing in the polls and highlight his Backing Young Britain campaign. RadioToday.co.uk with RCS

  • Tarrant Topic for the troops

    PW
    7 Nov 2009 | 1:40 am
    Chris Tarrant will present an exclusive show for GMG Radio as part of Help for Heroes Day on 10th November. The show will broadcast across the entire GMG network.Through the day’s events all stations will attempt to raise as much money as possible for ‘Help For Heroes’. The charity is looking to set-up a network of recovery centres across the UK, providing support for Britain’s wounded soldiers. RadioToday.co.uk with RCS
 
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  • CBS Radio Tops Ando Media's Internet Audio Top 20

    CBS Radio tops Ando Media's monthly Internet Audio Top 20, consisting of May through September, 2009. The media giant's interactive division saw 214,181 average active sessions, 35.4 million session starts and an average time spent listening share of 1.8. Following close behind was Citadel at #4 with 3.3 million session starts

  • Beasley SW Florida Names Two Program Directors

    Beasley Broadcast appoints two new Program Directors in its Southwest Florida region. Morning host Bob Garrett (pictured) of WJBX-FM (99X)/Fort Myers' Zito and Garrett assumed PD duties for the Alternative outlet. He takes over from Matt Johnson, who remains PD of co-owned CHR WXKB-FM (B103.9). John Cassio, Producer of the

  • Phoenix Business Journal Inks Partnership with CC

    The is partnering with Clear Channel Radio/Phoenix in a partnership that will expand the newspaper's exposure on radio. Multimedia reporter Adam Kress (pictured) will deliver news reports on News/Talk KFYI-AM each morning at 6, 7 and 8am beginning November 9. In addition to the morning reports,

  • Local Focus Radio to Represent Seven Bridges Radio

    Local Focus Radio has signed a rep agreement with Seven Bridges Radio, bringing WJXL-AM and WFJO-FM/Jacksonville, FL, into the Local Focus fold, joining its some 300 stations that the former Interep division represents. Local Focus Radio President Kay Olin said, "We are very proud to have the opportunity to represent

  • Dan Sileo Returns From Week-Long Suspension

    WDAE-AM/Tampa morning host Dan Sileo quietly returned on Friday, after being from suspended a over comments he made regarding the Tampa Bay Buccaneers co-chairman Joel Glazer. Sileo had alleged that Glazer lost millions to ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff and the NFL franchise could be for sale. Sileo made no mention of the incident
 
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    6 Nov 2009 | 9:10 pm
    While the company's upstate roots remain strong, Wegmans Food Markets CEO Danny Wegman said the firm's strategy involves growth largely outside New York.

  • 3 Answers from Sirius XM

    6 Nov 2009 | 1:34 pm
    Click Here Now Well done, Sirius XM Radio . The satellite radio giant turned the corner -- in many different ways -- with this morning's third-quarter report.

  • US, Pak would have to address each other's concerns for stronger ties: Clinton

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:31 am
    Washington, Nov.6 : US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that both America and Pakistan will have to work together to address each others concerns in order to build stronger bilateral ties.

  • Insider trading case draws in more Mass. companies

    5 Nov 2009 | 10:20 pm
    The insider trading case that rocked Wall Street last month grew even larger today, drawing in more Massachusetts companies and a hedge fund manager with a home in Westwood.

  • Sirius XM, Sunesis: Early Volume Plays

    5 Nov 2009 | 6:17 pm
    Several small-cap stocks were poised to move on above-average volume during Thursday's session Sirius XM rose by 4 cents, or 6.7%, to 65 cents in the premarket session after the satellite radio provider broke even in third-quarter on an adjusted per-share basis, compared to analysts' expectations it would lose 2 cents a share in the quarter.
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  • Susan Boyle To Perform On 'Dancing,' But Will Sharon Osbourne Be There? - NBC Los Angeles

    6 Nov 2009 | 11:53 pm
    Daily MailSusan Boyle To Perform On 'Dancing,' But Will Sharon Osbourne Be There?NBC Los AngelesSharon Osbourne recently made headlines for slamming Susan Boyle's looks during a promotional appearance on a Sirius radio show, but are the women set to Sharon Osbourne 'attacks' Susan Boyle on radio showTelegraph.co.ukSharon Osbourne Launches Foul-Mouthed Tirade Against Susan Boyle She got hit SoftpediaSharon Osbourne attacks Susan Boyle in radio rantMarie Claire.co.ukRadio Business Report -Ireland Online -ITNall 64 news articles »

  • Wake Up and Win: 'Pirate Radio' - abc7.com

    6 Nov 2009 | 11:42 pm
    Wake Up and Win: 'Pirate Radio'abc7.comIn the late 1960s, American radio stations blasted rock and roll 24 hours a day. But in the home country of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, Pirate RadioCinema Blendall 2 news articles »

  • Vatican official seeks more access to Cuban media - The Associated Press

    6 Nov 2009 | 7:31 pm
    Vatican official seeks more access to Cuban mediaThe Associated PressCurrently, there are no Catholic radio stations or television stations in Cuba, a communist country in which the government controls all forms of and more »

  • Rumor: Next iPhone to Gain Radio-Frequency Powers - Wired News

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:38 pm
    Product Reviews (blog)Rumor: Next iPhone to Gain Radio-Frequency PowersWired NewsApple is rumored to be testing a prototype of its fourth-generation iPhone with a radio-frequency identification chip, which could greatly Apple Building iPhone Prototypes with RFID?the iPhone Blog (blog)all 26 news articles »

  • Positive Cash Flow Signals New Era for Sirius XM - Seeking Alpha (blog)

    6 Nov 2009 | 10:50 am
    Little About (blog)Positive Cash Flow Signals New Era for Sirius XMSeeking Alpha (blog)Yesterday, Sirius XM Radio (SIRI) reported its third quarter results, which can only be described as outstanding by any measure. The Reveling - Sirius XM Radio TakeoverAltsounds.comSirius Makes Strides in Third QuarterWall Street JournalSatellite Radio -- You Can't Be Sirius?TheStreet.comNew York Daily News -Reuters -Trading Markets (press release)all 190 news articles »
 
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  • Ugandan Radio to Soon Ban Ads by Witch Doctors

    5 Nov 2009 | 4:34 pm
    Am I really reading this? I blink my eyes. Yes, apparently I am. From screenafrica.com: "Ugandan witch-doctors have used radio up to now to advertise their healing powers. However, this could soon be a thing of the past. The government's ethics minister, James Buturo, has said that radio stations are contravening the 1957 Witchcraft Act and '...are promoting witchcraft-related activities to the detriment of Uganda's integrity.'" Witchcraft remains widespread in Uganda and the government wants to stamp out the promotion of it. Looks like Radio revenues will take it in the shorts again - but…

  • Sonos S5 Wireless Music System Uses iPhone, iPod Touch

    5 Nov 2009 | 4:17 pm
    The Sonos ZonePlayer S5 is an all-in-one wireless music system controlled by an iPhone. (Photo: Sonos, Inc.) It will play audio from the Internet or your iTunes collection. Features include: 5 integrated speakers, 5 dedicated digital amplifiers Control with iPhone or iPod touch with free Sonos Controller app Search for songs, choose music, adjust volume Add additional S5s to your home and play the same song in each room or different songs in different rooms The Sonos ZonePlayer S5 has a suggested price of $399.00 More from Sonos: * Sonos Introduces iPhone App to Control Internet Radio Wi-Fi…

  • SIRIUS XM Radio to Offer Five Holiday Music Channels

    4 Nov 2009 | 4:38 pm
    SIRIUS XM Radio will offer five commercial-free holiday music channels this Christmas and Hanukkah season. Beginning November 16 subscribers can hear contemporary music and traditional favorites on "Holly" (SIRIUS channel 3 and XM channel 23) and traditional holiday recordings from the 1940s through 1960s on "Holiday Traditions" (SIRIUS channel 4 and XM channel 4). (Graphic: SIRIUS XM Radio) Then, December 7 three more channels launch: "Holiday Pops" (SIRIUS channel 79 and XM channel 77) will feature classical Christmas carols. "Country Christmas" (SIRIUS channel 62 and XM channel 10) will…

  • Obama: Good for Talk Radio

    3 Nov 2009 | 4:50 pm
    That's the conclusion of an article by Todd Seavey at newsmax.com. Seavey writes: "The top 10, in order of descending popularity, are Limbaugh, Hannity, Michael Savage, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved, Mike Gallagher, and William Bennett, according to Talkers." (Photo: Mark Levin, Screenshot from www.marklevinshow.com) Seavey also notes that Talkers magazine reports: "Limbaugh has averaged about 15 million listeners in 2009, up from about 13 million two years ago..." See Profiles of: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Laura…

  • SIRUS XM Introduces XM SkyDock for iPhone and iPod Touch

    2 Nov 2009 | 4:45 pm
    SIRIUS XM Radio has unveiled the XM SkyDock, a satellite radio controlled by an iPhone or iPod Touch. (Photo: SIRIUS XM Radio) The required XM SkyDock App utilizes the user interface of iPhone and iPod Touch to let subscribers listen to SIRIUS XM content. The app is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod Touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore. Subscribers can tag songs and purchase directly from the iTunes Store. The XM Skydock includes PowerConnect technology which SIRIUS XM says simplifies installation and allows for easy movement from vehicle to vehicle. The XM SkyDock is…
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  • Pandora nearly beats CBS in Online Radio

    mramsey1@ix.netcom.com (Mark Ramsey)
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:07 pm
    Change is in the wind.Just take a peek at the new rankings from Ando Media from the fast-growing world of online radio - and keep in mind these statistics are from the US only: CBS Radio is number one - but look at who's number two, Pandora.Pandora, the company with exactly zero terrestrial radio stations.  Pandora, the company that has no Arbitron nor any need for Arbitron.  Pandora, the company that actually charges folks who use the service the most. Pandora is a handful of streams away from being the leading source of online radio in the US (among those that Ando measures).During…

  • The Listener, not your Content, is the "Product"

    mramsey1@ix.netcom.com (Mark Ramsey)
    4 Nov 2009 | 4:45 pm
    The Atlantic recently posted a note on the slow death of the newspaper business, and one of the comments to that note was so perceptive (if not necessarily novel) that I thought I'd share it with you because it has consequences for the radio industry, too. Wrote the commenter: Newspapers were dying anyway but the Internet has hastened the process by exposing the newspapers lack of accountability.  The average schmuck buys a paper and sees it as a product designed to inform him, the customer, about the world around him/her. But in any financial transaction the customer is identified as the…

  • Count Connections, Not Ears

    mramsey1@ix.netcom.com (Mark Ramsey)
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:26 pm
    From the Harvard Business Blog: The New York Times iPhone application recently added sharing functionality which allows a user to easily broadcast an article across networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Many websites already support this functionality, but it's likely that we will see an increase in user behavior as it becomes more mainstream for people to share with networks what they used to do with e-mail lists. And content providers will be all too happy to help them distribute any way they choose.When "broadcasting" is the business of sharing content worth sharing between individuals…

  • The Most Important Thing You'll Read about Radio's Future This Year

    mramsey1@ix.netcom.com (Mark Ramsey)
    2 Nov 2009 | 10:36 am
    Don't read this if you don't care about radio's future or if you're counting down the days to your retirement. Every now and then some thinking comes along that puts it all in perspective.  This piece from Ad Age is one such summation of thinking that has been bubbling up over the past few months from folks like Tom Asacker and others. What is the blueprint for what radio will need to be to compete successfully as a vital enterprise in the years to come? The trajectory of our future can be summed up as follows: Almost every consumer marketer I've spoken to...is moving toward the goal of…

  • How Pandora can become the New "Radio"

    mramsey1@ix.netcom.com (Mark Ramsey)
    29 Oct 2009 | 4:39 pm
    From Inside Radio: Pandora is pushing its way into the car. The pure play webcaster that allows users to create and customize their own radio stations has its eye on the auto market and home appliance integrations. Pandora VP of business development Jessica Steel tells eMarketer that many of its 30 million registered users stream the service in their car via mobile apps. “We’re definitely looking at ways to make that experience more seamless — basically making all the core user interactions of Pandora integrated into the vehicle, so that you don’t have to fumble around with your…
 
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  • Radio's New Competitors

    6 Nov 2009 | 3:46 pm
    By Jerry Del Colliano(This piece has been republished due to server problems Friday that prevented some readers from accessing it)According to a new survey, four out of five people say they never leave home without their cell phones.Think for a minute.Do you know many people who go out without their cell or smart phones?The advantage of observing human behavior makes research most meaningful.In fact, over 23% of the respondents including 504 in the U.S. say they are likely to own two cell phones.The survey is fascinating and I thought you’d like to see it or forward it to someone who would…

  • What Radio Advertisers Now Want

    4 Nov 2009 | 11:02 pm
    The radio industry is getting shellacked by the recession but worse than that, it is being compromised by its inability to hold rates.These “dollar hollers” and cheap ad packages being thrown together by radio groups and stations desperate to make their numbers are prostituting the industry’s overall clout.That’s why now you’re beginning to see radio as more of an add-on to other media buys. Being part of a total ad package including, say, television, print and/or new media isn’t new. What is disturbing is the cheap price radio is getting to round out advertisers media…

  • Clear Channel Planning Tighter Corporate Control

    3 Nov 2009 | 11:02 pm
    Well, Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey may be accomplishing his main mission in life after all – to be noticed by Clear Channel.The Harvard grad is stubbornly and clumsily reinventing the wheel at Cumulus and now it appears Clear Channel’s John Hogan is the one who is getting envious.According to sources close to Clear Channel, the company is installing remote monitoring devices on “most every technical aspect of many of their stations”.This is not just in small markets but the top 25 as well.In one Clear Channel cluster, they “were being required to install all kinds of remote metering…

  • Entercom’s $16 Million Lesson

    2 Nov 2009 | 11:02 pm
    Entercom's “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” promotion at KDND, Sacramento is more than a costly mistake.It is a lesson about running radio stations in the new age for those who will listen.A jury last week found for the plaintiff, the surviving family of Jennifer Strange who died hours after participating in the radio contest in which she was asked to drink so much water as an unintended consequence it killed her.The staff of KDND (known as “The End”) show “Morning Rave” was canned following the contest because the on-air personalities did not get required corporate approval.The family…

  • Radio’s Hostile Workplace Uprising

    1 Nov 2009 | 11:02 pm
    It appears we have the first signs of an uprising by abused radio employees protesting the increasingly pervasive hostile working environments they are being forced to tolerate.In the past I have heard rumblings from workers at Citadel complaining about Chief Bottle Washer Judy Ellis, at Cumulus directed at John (Other Brother) Dickey and Gary Pizzati (The Terminator) and, of course, Clear Channel where lack of a solid example at the top has spawned little dictators terrorizing perfectly good clusters.Now, it is about to get uglier.Employees are speaking up and some are even retaining lawyers…
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  • Radio's annual Halloween Party

    30 Oct 2009 | 8:15 am
    The annual radio industry haunted house party is being held at Clear Channel’s headquarters in San Antonio this year.The joint actually feels haunted.For years, it was the center of the universe for all decisions made for its radio stations.Now it’s a disembodied mess and run by spirits from a distant city. I’m sorry to report that Randall Mays, the soon-to-be-former CFO of Clear Channel, is boycotting this year’s party after being told by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee that he would have to get their approval before he could wear his Little Lord Fauntleroy costume Brother Mark will…

  • Forgotten anniversary

    26 Oct 2009 | 3:36 pm
    Shame, shame, shame on me. One of the most important dates in recent history and I missed it. I’m going to stop short of taking full blame here. There were no reminders. No hints. No nothing. You’d think with Google and Wikipedia someone would’ve flagged this date. I didn't even see a single Tweet about it. Eight years ago last Friday, October 23, the iPod was introduced. I was in my Apple store last week. I’ve gotten to know most of the people there. You’d think someone would’ve invited me to stop by and have cake and ice cream last Friday. But no. Not a word. Do you remember the…

  • Radio: The Peter Principle

    20 Oct 2009 | 2:31 pm
    Peter Smyth, it’s true that people are worried about the future of radio - or at least those of us who work for radio are.I read your latestFrom the Corner Office last week and have to respond.Peter, I’m not going to counter-point the half-truths and untruths in your latest letter.Just a few points, please. You say the Great Recession is over?Really. How might I ask did you reach that conclusion?Unemployment continues to rise.Foreclosures are on the increase. They’re related, you know. If you don’t have a job, you can’t afford to pay the mortgage - and you lose the house. And Peter,…

  • Radio: How Rush Beck-oned the media

    15 Oct 2009 | 11:20 am
    What must it be like to be Rush Limbaugh’s babysitter?When that Baby Huey kicks his high chair in Palm Beach, the aftershocks rock Clear Channel’s death star headquarters in San Antonio and their puppeteers Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee in Boston.The last few months have found Rush in the awkward position of playing second fiddle to rival conservative hatemonger Glenn Beck, who happens to be another high priced piece of Clear Channel property.While Rush was basking his ego as being more popular than Michael Steele in the Republican party, Beck was perfecting the old crying evangelist…

  • Radio (No) One

    12 Oct 2009 | 3:45 pm
    You’re Radio One.You’re trying to make ends meet with 53 radio stations in 16 markets - and it’s not going so well. Ever since those no good, rotten bastards at Arbitron rolled out the Portable People Meter (PPM), your urban formatted stations have gone into a ratings free fall.Since your ad rates are based on Arbitron data, the lower your ratings are, the lower your ad rates will be.The lower your rate, the more challenging it is to service your massive debt. You’re Radio One and you’ve called for Rep. Edolphus “Eddie” Towns (D-N.Y.) to take care of your business on the Hill.
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  • RAIN 11/6: Pandora debuts in #2 slot in September Webcast Metrics ratings

    Michael Schmitt
    6 Nov 2009 | 10:27 am
    ANDO MEDIA UNVEILS NEW MEASUREMENTS, DOMESTIC-ONLY RANKINGS Pandora took the #2 spot in Ando Media’s Internet Audio Top 20 for September, the first ranking to include Pandora’s listener statistics. Ando Media also released ratings, measured by Webcast Metrics, for May through August. The September Top 20 ranking also includes new measurement metrics (Session Starts, Average Active Sessions and Average Time Spent Listening) as well as a ranking of just domestic listening. The September rankings for all streams (not just domestic) from 6AM to midnight EST, Monday through Sunday,…

  • RAIN 11/4: Study shows AM/FM radio still king of audio media

    Paul Maloney
    4 Nov 2009 | 12:05 pm
    NIELSEN OBSERVES HOW AMERICANS USE AUDIO, INCLUDING STREAMING, FOR NEW STUDY The most-used form of audio media among Americans today? It’s still broadcast radio. More than three-quarters (about 77%) of U.S. adults listen to broadcast radio every day. That’s from Nielsen analysis of a media use study conducted by the Council for Research Excellence. The study offers some interesting demographic info on those subjects who listen to “digital audio streamed on a desktop or laptop computer” (which would include, though not be limited to, Internet radio… but does not…

  • RAIN 11/3: Citadel to experiment with "crowdcast" programming

    Paul Maloney
    3 Nov 2009 | 10:55 am
    CITADEL LICENSES MCVAY’S LISTENER DRIVEN RADIO Broadcast group Citadel Media has entered an agreement to offer the “crowdcasting” interactive radio service Listener Driven Radio to its stations. The Listener Driven Radio platform allows listeners to request songs and impact the music played by voting and even uploading new music via the radio station sites, smartphones, and social networks. LDR was launched in 2009 by radio consultants, Daniel Anstandig and Mike McVay and radio owner and media entrepreneur, Lee Zapis. McVay presented the platform at the RAIN Summit East in…

  • RAIN 11/2: Online radio revenues projected to grow 20% next year

    Michael Schmitt
    2 Nov 2009 | 9:59 am
    SNL KAGAN PREDICTS REVENUE OF $827M BY 2013 Radio’s online revenues are predicted to reach $441 million by the end of 2009, representing a 12% growth from last year, according to new projections from SNL Kagan. In 2010, that growth rate is expected to reach 20% with annual revenue reaching $530 million. The online radio market will mature by 2013, SNL Kagan predicts, with annual revenue hitting $827 million. By that time, online radio will make up 4.7% of total radio revenues. “With the decline of traditional ad spending, radio stations have turned to online initiatives to grow…

  • RAIN 10/30: eMarketer report shows streaming, terrestrial radio ad revenue moving in strikingly different directions [2]

    Michael Schmitt
    30 Oct 2009 | 10:52 am
    eMARKETER: DRAMATIC AD REVENUE SHIFT TO BENEFIT NET RADIO, HURT TERRESTRIAL A report from eMarketer predicts Internet radio stands to benefit as ad dollars migrate away from the suffering terrestrial radio industry to digital platforms. The report, published in September, points out that terrestrial radio saw an 18% drop in ad revenue from 2008. 2010 may be no better. “Radio ad revenues have dropped more severely in the wake of the economic crisis than ever before, and there is no significant rebound on the horizon,” the report states. Meanwhile, ad revenue for Internet radio is…
 
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  • Communication & Control Systems

    2 Nov 2009 | 12:18 pm
    Communication was used initially to interact with one another. Later it was used for data transfer, running planes, trains, guiding the rockets, etc. No one can deny the great service communication systems does for the military, naval and air forces. It looks like the whole world is connected and is functioning only because of communication and control systems.

  • Command Control Systems

    2 Nov 2009 | 12:14 pm
    What is a command control system? What are the significant features of this system? Global command and control systems are nothing but a collection of SOA systems. It was originally developed with the view to replace the worldwide military command and control system.

  • What Can Satellite Radio Do For You?

    28 Oct 2009 | 2:31 pm
    If you live in an area that has little to no selection when it comes to radio, or if you are unhappy with the limited choices available even in the largest markets, you are not alone. Satellite radio may offer you just the sports, news and entertainment choices you have always wanted.

  • Home Satellite Radio? What's it All About Anyway?

    15 Oct 2009 | 8:46 pm
    Why choose satellite radio for your home? The simple answer is choice and quality.

  • Military Headphones & Headsets

    1 Oct 2009 | 3:15 pm
    The communication network, with its highly advanced technology, has evolved over the years and is now providing excellent interconnectivity between the different parts of the world. Gone are the days when doves and secret messengers were sent to exchange news and information. After the invention of the radio and telephone, the communication aspect took a drastic turn and it has improved in leaps and bounds since then. The latest radar and satellite technology had enhanced the communication and it is now possible to even communicate from space.
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  • Talk Radio Personalization via Mobile - Part One

    Andrew Deal
    6 Nov 2009 | 12:29 pm
    Personalization of media programming lies at the heart of the new media revolution. If it was only about the explosion of variety in content and format choices, the net result of all this change would just be about how overwhelmed we are with all the new choices in content and formats. Ok, so we are largely overwhelmed, so what does that mean? It means we are still in the beginning of the revolution. We are just beginning to consider how much control we as individuals need over our media consumption, versus how much we are happy to continue to hand over to media producers. I am finally…

  • The Mobile Phone Radio Playing Field - Mobile Web Apps

    Andrew Deal
    1 Nov 2009 | 3:05 pm
    Something surprising is about to occur, but I say it is right on schedule. Apple’s iPhone is going down a few pegs in the intrigue market and the app craze will quickly wash into a memory similar to playing pogs and listening to Sugar Ray. Why will the app craze dissipate? Because the same thing has happened on your desktop already. Installed apps, for a variety of obvious practical reasons, have given way to web apps. Web apps are accessible from any computer. They don’t care what version your OS is. The installation step gives way to a much easier registration step. The…

  • Radio Programming Customization - Personalized by Listeners

    Andrew Deal
    27 Oct 2009 | 11:45 am
    Life is full of surprises. There are times when we think the business relationships we have set up years ago will remain intact and that everyone is comfortable in their role. Then the phone rings. “Although we have been glad to have you provide that service for us, in light of the recession and all, we decided to handle that in house from this point forward.” No matter how wrong headed these kinds of decisions might be, they are made anyway, and more and more specialists are forced to diversify. What should surprise us is that anyone is surprised anymore when things normally…

  • Foundation of Human Understanding adds Advice Line and 2 Audio Exercises

    Andrew Deal
    18 Oct 2009 | 8:08 pm
    We are proud to announce the addition of “Advice Line” to the CelleCast lineup along with the recently highly publicized “Be Still and Know” audio meditation exercise. The Foundation of Human Understanding was established by Roy Masters as a religious organization dedicated to assisting anyone interested in perfecting their spiritual natures through the principles of Judeo Christianity. For over 44 years, the FHU has reached millions of listeners with radio programs such as “Advice Line,” currently carried on over 130 stations in the U.S. and rebroadcast…

  • Mobile Story Telling and other Nebulous Academic Projects

    Andrew Deal
    18 Oct 2009 | 2:35 pm
    I am watching a video from http://bb2009.uscannenberg.org/ that cuts off early and has no scrubber, so take my frustration into account as you read this. Mobile Voices Part 1 A case study in new media beyond broadcast, the Mobile Voices project empowers first generation immigrants in Los Angeles to publish multimedia stories about their lives and communities directly from mobile phones. This panel will explore questions of media production through demonstrations of the Mobile Voices project by some of its participants. Nothing wrong with the projects goals, but the net affect of these kinds…
 
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    Truth...Justice...All That Stuff...

  • Sales and Social Media: PB & J or Oil and Water?

    Jeff
    4 Nov 2009 | 12:21 pm
    Yesterday, I had the pleasure of delivering a presentation to our company’s Business Development Directors on the benefits of considering certain social media tools to reach their goals. Mixing sales (or marketing) and social media is, of course, done by companies and individuals all over the world every day.  But, if your social media approach is lead by what you’re going to get out of it (ulterior motives) as opposed to shining the spotlight on other people (altruistic motives), make no mistake that people will see right through it. My main point then was two-fold.  If…

  • Find Your Strongest Life by Marcus Buckingham: A Review

    Jeff
    5 Oct 2009 | 9:30 pm
    Okay, I’ll just come out and say it. It’s been really hard to Find My Strongest Anything lately.  There have been two deaths in my family in the last week,  yesterday my one and only laptop hard drive crashed (I’m on a borrowed one now) and, I realized just moments ago that this review is actually due today, October 5th, and not tomorrow, October 6th, as I’d thought.  Me, strongest life?  Hardly. On the other hand, one could argue the timing of this book in my life couldn’t be better.  In a moment, I’ll tell you how you can get a free copy all your…

  • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller: A Review

    Jeff
    29 Sep 2009 | 5:00 am
    If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers.  You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen.  The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except you’d feel robbed and want your money back.  Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo. But we spend years actually living those stories, and expect our lives to feel…

  • Chris Brogan, Trust Agents and Social Media: Old-Fashioned Common Sense

    Jeff
    25 Sep 2009 | 3:09 pm
    Yesterday, I had the pleasure of sitting in on a presentation made my Chris Brogan.  Through Thursday you can purchase a DVD of the event.  Christine Taylor and JTMar partnered with Stage Post Studios to not only make Chris available in person to several hundred Nashvillians, but they also streamed the event online, including incorporating questions via Twitter and by phone all in real time.  Everyone in attendance also receive an autographed copy of Chris’ new book Trust Agents, written with Julien Smith. Chris Brogan, co-author of Trust Agents Photo credit, affiliatesummit The…

  • The New Seesmic: Update Facebook Pages and Twitter Accounts From a Single App

    Jeff
    18 Sep 2009 | 9:01 pm
    Did I recently post I’d given up on Seesmic?  Why, yes I did. But wait. No sooner had I gone back to TweetDeck – and I still really like the newest version of TweetDeck – the folks at Seesmic stepped up their game and added Facebook page functionality to the interface. As someone who manages up to four Twitter accounts and five Facebook pages at any given time, I’d longed for a third-party app that would allow me to do this. Until now, I’d utilized  Seesmic or TweetDeck to update multiple Twitter accounts only.  When I needed to update all five Facebook pages…
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  • The Thing That Creates New Listening?

    twebster@edisonresearch.com (Tom Webster)
    6 Nov 2009 | 9:56 am
    Perhaps the most exciting thing about Country radio in the early '90s was that the debut of a successful new hipper-sounding Country station didn't necessarily take a lot of shares from the successful incumbent. The new station won by taking a few people from the incumbent and turning other new listeners on to Country music, often former Top 40 listeners. At the same time, the second Top 40 station in the market would often go away and the remaining Top 40 would get a negligible bump, at best -- a sign of just how bad things were in Top 40 at the time. A few years later, Top 40 rebounded and…

  • The Least Efficient Post I've Ever Written

    twebster@edisonresearch.com (Tom Webster)
    4 Nov 2009 | 5:39 am
    In Radio Business Report today, Cumulus Media CEO Lew Dickey was quoted: "...more than ever before we believe efficiency is becoming the greatest source of competitive advantage [in radio] today." Today, that's correct. Tomorrow, it's not. Tomorrow, when towers and sticks are irrelevant, then a passionate Jimmy Buffet fan with a server in his garage will be vastly more efficient in serving a given audience than any station with overhead could hope to be. The industry can never forget that its core business is to develop relationships with listeners and advertisers, and use those relationships…

  • Not So Disgruntled Ex-Staffers Say Goodbye

    twebster@edisonresearch.com (Tom Webster)
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:13 pm
    It's a familiar fact for radio people that format changes are sprung not just on listeners, but on staffers as well, and that jocks rarely get a chance to say goodbye. As the St. Louis Post Dispatch points out in an intriguing bit of enterprise this week, Facebook has changed that, allowing the personalities of Urban KATZ (the Beat) St. Louis to post their goodbyes as status updates. And what did the Beat jocks write? "Just want to thank you for all your years of love and support over my radio career!" "I want to THANK everybody for all the kind words and support." "I have no hard feelings…

  • KROQ: More World Famous Than 91X?

    twebster@edisonresearch.com (Tom Webster)
    30 Oct 2009 | 9:26 am
    Good to see CBS continuing to roll out its local stations as HD multicasts in other markets, including bringing Alternative KROQ to San Diego and Hot AC KSCF (Sophie 103.7) to Los Angeles. It's a strategy that we've been endorsing for more than two years. Great local brands are better, even in other markets, than a hastily assembled local product or a white-label generic with local stagers. That said . . . Sophie, for those who will now be able to hear it, fills a need in a market that never got a direct replacement for KYSR (Star 98.7) when that station segued from Modern AC to Alternative.

  • Leaving Candi On The Table

    twebster@edisonresearch.com (Tom Webster)
    27 Oct 2009 | 2:07 pm
    Last night I was listening to WRXP New York's nightly new-music feature, "10 O'Clock News." I heard a song that I loved instantly because it makes innovative use of a semi-obscure '70s R&B sample, which is always a good attention-getter in my particular case. Fortunately, they backsold it and I was devastated to find out that . . . It's a song that has been sitting at arm's length on my desk for at least the last two months. The song, incidentally, is One eskimO's "Kandi." The sample is Candi Staton's "She Called Me Baby." If I had actually picked up the advance CD and looked at the bio on…
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  • Valpo Heads to Title Game

    Chris Kleinhans-Schulz
    6 Nov 2009 | 9:40 pm
    Yes, this blog will have sports in it. I can’t help it. After all, I am covering the women’s soccer team right now. In addition to being the WVUR webmaster, I’m a member of the WVUR Sports staff, broadcasting numerous Crusader sports contests and analyzing them on Your Crusader Sports Source (6-7:00 P.M. every Wednesday). Right now, Peter Berg and I are in Milwaukee to call the women’s soccer team’s action at the Horizon League Championships, and we are having a great time so far… On the way to Milwaukee, we watched Miracle, a fantastic sports movie about…

  • WVUR Blog Schedule

    Chris Kleinhans-Schulz
    31 Oct 2009 | 4:56 pm
    This is the link to the blog schedule for WVUR managers. The plan is to have 2 blog entries “each week,” which does contain some overlap when months begin and end. Each manager should have one post per month unless otherwise noted. As General Manager, Cameron can post an entry whenever his little heart pleases. Every week contains the names of 2 departments and a date. This indicates who needs to blog and what date indicates the start of your “blogging week.” I will also send email notifications to managers to remind you of your posting dates in case you forget or…

  • Life as the Events Director

    mtargonski
    23 Oct 2009 | 8:32 am
    Hi all, First off, thanks for checking the blog. I hope everyone is enjoying their time at WVUR and having a wonderful first semester. I look forward to hearing all the DJs, News and Sports staffers put the finishing touches on a great semester and looking to start a new one. Well, I’m Mike Targonski, the Events Director at WVUR; I am also a member of sports staff. As the Events Director, I had a pretty important job at the beginning of the year and that was to put on SourceStock. Let me tell you, I never thought in a million years I’d be throwing a concert. I began working with…

  • Fall Break! How About My First Post?

    Chris Kleinhans-Schulz
    14 Oct 2009 | 8:03 pm
    2 months ago, everything was different. As a management staff, we were preparing for SourceStock 2009 and the school year hadn’t even started yet. Now, I’m just thankful that I finally get a break. Fall Break is a great time for me because I can take some time off, but I can also catch up with my radio and school work. I really enjoy being here at Valpo, especially at WVUR. I’m the station’s webmaster, a DJ, and a member of sports staff. That, combined with classes, keeps me pretty busy, but it’s fun, too. Over the next few days, I’ll host a volleyball…

  • SourceStock 2009 Featuring The Academy Is…

    Cameron Banga
    23 Aug 2009 | 11:07 am
    It’s crazy to think that another school year is right around the corner in a couple of days and with this fresh start comes our preparations for one of the largest concert events on campus for the entire year.  On September 12th, AP Fall Ball co-headliner The Academy Is… will be hitting the VU campus with rising stars Sing It Loud and Indiana’s own Dreams of University. It’s going to be a crazy awesome show and it’s FREE to VU students, professors, alumni, and staff.  Don’t go to VU?  No worries my friend, tickets are only $10 for this crazy sweet…
 
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  • On-demand KRCL streaming

    DMo
    4 Nov 2009 | 10:01 am
    KRCL is now offering archived streaming of many programs, including mine. So, you can listen at your leisure. It’s the best thing since sliced peaches. Check it out here.

  • One thousand and ninety-five

    DMo
    3 Nov 2009 | 10:54 am
    Today marks three years (or 1,095 days) of employ at my agency. It’s been a wild ride. Mostly good. Some bad. But I’ve had the opportunity to work on some real good projects with some real good people, and I’m thankful for that. After the jump, some McCann moments.

  • Thanks to Courtney for this

    DMo
    5 Oct 2009 | 12:17 pm

  • 2010

    DMo
    5 Oct 2009 | 12:16 pm
    As a boy, I always assumed that in 2010 I’d be driving a flying car that was fueled by dog feces and/or rainbow dust. Instead, in late 2009, I bought a ‘10 AWD Subaru. Go figure.

  • What, no Chuck Woolery?

    DMo
    1 Oct 2009 | 9:44 am
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  • NPR Music Streams Debut of Norah Jones Album

    Jennifer Lane
    5 Nov 2009 | 8:05 am
    NPR’s digital platform is diverse and often sets the standard for ways that broadcast stations can expand content online. As evidence of that, this week they debuted the new album by Norah Jones. Debuting this album as part of their “Exclusive First Listen Series”, NPR offers a huge value proposition to listeners who can go online and listen to Norah Jones new album The Fall song by song, or in its entirety. The album, by Grammy award winning Jones, features songs written by Ryan Adams, Jesse Harris and other noteworthy musicians. It will be released on Blue Note Records on…

  • Nielsen: Internet Radio Reaches Nearly 10% of All Adults Daily

    Jennifer Lane
    4 Nov 2009 | 6:02 am
    A Nielsen analysis of a media use study conducted by the Council for Research Excellence found that that 90% of consumers listen to some form of audio media per day. Three quarters of that listening is to broadcast radio. Unfortunately, the study decided to group broadcast and satellite radio listeners into one group and call them radio listeners, (to the benefit of that group), which I find a little misleading. Internet radio doesn’t have its own group, it ends up partly in “portable audio”, along with mp3s and ipods, and partly in “mobile phones.” So the…

  • Online Radio Will Be 5% of Overall Number for Broadcasters

    Jennifer Lane
    3 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    Joining the parade of predictions that online radio revenue will grow in 2010, SNL Kagan predicts that by 2013 online radio revenue will account for nearly 5% of radio’s overall number. Kagan’s announcement, published as part of SNL Kagan’s Broadcaster Investor Service, expects 12% growth this year, with radio’s online revenues tallying $441 million (up from $394 million last year). Beyond that, SNL Kagan projects an annual online revenue growth rate of 20% in 2010 to $530 million. As the market matures, growth is expected to level off through 2013, rising to $827…

  • Creating Effective Internet Radio Ads

    Jennifer Lane
    2 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
      Flickr: Inno'vision A new study by brand strategy firm Cone Inc. reveals that 80% of new media users interact with brands online, the majority doing so on a weekly basis. What’s more, consumers tended to have a more positive opinion of brands that interacted with them in new media, and were more tolerant of marketing messages accompanying that interaction.   “Consumers haven’t yet been exhausted by brand oversaturation in the new media space,” says Mike Hollywood, Cone’s director of new media. “There is still an opportunity for forward-thinking companies to…

  • Google’s New Music Playground

    Jennifer Lane
    28 Oct 2009 | 5:07 pm
    Google provided details of their Discovery music platform on a live press conference wednesday at 4pm pt. The big deal that leaked last week and was fully outlined during the presentation is that Google is integrating a music search feature into Google Search. According to Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google, two of the top ten most searched for terms of all time on Google are music and lyrics. Which speaks to the fact that people are looking for it, and don’t know where to go to find it. With Google’s new Music Discovery platform, you can…
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  • "Time" magazine article on Larry Wilson: "Rescuing Radio"

    2 Nov 2009 | 1:59 pm
    If you're a fan of radio, and/or a fan of Larry Wilson, this is a must read: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1933204-1,00.html

  • FCC Attorney (and great guy) Wade Hargrove honored at UNC-Chapel Hill

    29 Oct 2009 | 12:19 pm
    Last night, I attended a gathering of some 150+ of Wade Hargrove’s friends, family, clients and colleagues who came together for a surprise dinner at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill. Wade walked into the room to a standing ovation and glaring TV camera lights, only to then learn that he was the namesake for “The Wade H. Hargrove Communications Law and Policy Colloquium.” The Hargrove Colloquium will attract prominent figures from the media industry, law and government to deliver high-profile public lectures and interact with students and faculty.Wade, a graduate of Chapel Hill and now a…

  • Hello. My name is George Reed, and I Tweet.

    27 Oct 2009 | 7:39 am
    So here you are reading a blog. If you’re like me, not long ago you scoffed at “bloggers” and “blogging” as something done by the fringe elements with too much time on their hands. Who do they think they are?But times have changed. Blogs have become a useful tool for news, opinion, and idea dissemination. Twitter (http://twitter.com/) is simply a mini-blog, limited to 140 characters. And it has taken off like a rocket, more so with the “grownups” than the kids. It is widely used by professionals. The benefits of Twitter to me and my brokerage practice increase daily, as more and…

  • "What's it worth?"

    22 Oct 2009 | 2:15 pm
    The two most common questions in a media broker’s life are:1) What is my station/cluster/company worth?2) What is HIS station/cluster/company worth?Good brokers can usually respond quite accurately. But those questions have been a lot more difficult to answer over the last year. Liquidity vaporized, multiples dropped, and the bid/ask spread widened. If a buyer will buy and a seller will sell at 7x Broadcast Cash Flow (“BCF”), but there is no capital available to complete the transactions (or the assets are secured by an 8x bank loan), is the business really worth 7x?While year-to-date…

  • Jerry Del Colliano: The Disney Media Solution

    21 Oct 2009 | 11:30 am
    You may not always agree with Jerry, but he will make you think. Here is an interesting piece on Disney/Steve Jobs and how their ideas could be applied to running radio and TV broadcasting companies: http://insidemusicmedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/disney-media-solution.html
 
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