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Thursday, May 20, 2010

First Listen: Livio Car Internet Radio

First Listen: Livio Car Internet Radio For the last five months, my most used iPhone app has easily been stream aggregator WunderRadio, which has emerged as the preferred way to stream a lot of different radio stations on-the-go. I’ve downloaded the various free apps offered by the broadcast groups, but I usually gravitate to WunderRadio for its one-stop shopping. Read More

Monday, May 10, 2010

Radio's Best & Worst, May 6, 2010

Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending May 6, 2010. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research capacity are asterisked. Read More

Thursday, February 11, 2010

With More Imaging On Internet Stations, FM's Point Of Differentiation Is Blurred -- Readers Respond

For many years, the best way to get a handle on the overall professionalism and “bigness” of a radio station was often through its imaging. In the early ’80s, stations like WRQX (Q107) Washington, D.C., and WBZZ (B94) Pittsburgh stood out from other Top 40s around the country by using laserblast production every few records. Read More

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Five Days Of Streaming App-Oplexy

Even as somebody who streams dozens of radio stations a week, I resisted the iPhone or any other smart phone for a long time. It was a bad economy. Read More

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Four Christmases V: KOIT, WBEB, XmasMelody, SomaFM

Four Christmases V: KOIT, WBEB, XmasMelody, SomaFM After a few weeks of checking out the more eclectic offerings from the all-holiday world, I was planning for this final installment of “Four Christmases” to return to the genre’s holiday HQ and focus entirely on Mainstream ACs and their execution of the format. Then RadioTime released their list of users' favorite holiday music stations. Read More

Monday, December 21, 2009

Music Junkie Takes On Pattern Recognition Apps In Steel Cage Death Match, Part I

Music Junkie Takes On Pattern Recognition Apps In Steel Cage Death Match, Part I Maybe other guys get booty calls. What I’ve gotten for most of my adult life is music trivia booty calls. Read More

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Pittsburgh's New Urban Voice

This past summer the radio industry, in particular the Urban community, was shocked to learn that heritage urban outlet WAMO and its urban AC sister WAMO-AM, would be sold by Sheridan Broadcasters and the new owners would take the stations in a new format direction. That left the African American community in Pittsburgh without a station to call… Read More

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

New Blood? Honoring the past? Readers Respond

New Blood? Honoring the past? Readers Respond The Sept. 29 Ross On Radio issued two not-at-all-contradictory calls prompted by the Radio’s Stimulus Package session at the National Assn. Read More

Monday, September 28, 2009

RAIN Summit Draws SRO Crowd, Focuses On Emerging Businesses

RAIN Summit Draws SRO Crowd, Focuses On Emerging Businesses Radio entrepreneur Kurt Hanson struck an optimistic tone, predicting a coming renaissance for the radio industry, during the RAIN Summit East seminar Sept. 24 at the Hard Rock Café in Philadelphia. Read More

Monday, September 28, 2009

Radio's Stimulus Package

Radio's Stimulus Package Friday morning’s “Radio Stimulus Package” panel gave the National Assn. of Broadcasters Radio Show a string of last-day-firecrackers as panelists urged broadcasters to stop living in the past and to recruit younger talent to what Edison Research president Larry Rosin called “an industry of old men.” Noting that the still-legendary KHJ Los Angele… Read More

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Super PD Session: “Embrace the digital world, and the younger generation will follow”

Super PD Session: “Embrace the digital world, and the younger generation will follow” That was the message at the Group PD Super Session during the NAB Radio Show in Philadelphia. Rick Cummings, President of Programming for Emmis Communications said “I see that we have two main issues to address in radio today: First, we have to right-size our business. Read More

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

How radio can use Twitter effectively

How radio can use Twitter effectively Engaging the audience rather than beating them over the head with a marketing message is the key to successfully using Twitter to increase ratings and revenue for your radio station. That point was the key takeaway from a seminar on the topic at the National Assn. Read More

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Goom Radio: The Radio-Info Interview

After four months of heavy publicity, the U.S. version of Goom Radio arrived in late July. Read More

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