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What’s the best way to develop new talent? Is it to steal from the switchboard and upgrade to sidekick? Is it to place a blind ad in an industry trade? Is it to hire or voice-track a good-enough talent from another market where that talent’s awareness in this market is zero? You could st...

Value to clients is about more than running ads.  And value to consumers is about more than simply playing music. That’s the new world of radio today. No longer is there a “sales side” or a “programming side.”  Nowadays there’s only one “side” and it...

So says Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy in this opening session highlight from the recent Worldwide Radio Summit, moderated by Triton’s Mike Agovino. Joe also shares some stats on reduced TSL for radio and matches that against the growth for Internet Radio.  These are stats that are not often publici...

In this highlight from the Jacobs Media TechSurvey8 poll, Fred Jacobs summarizes the key ways broadcasters can tap into the emotional benefits of radio to improve the lives (and the listening) of its audiences. Fred’s points remind me of a regular theme in this blog and his own:  That radio&#...

“Local, local, local.” It’s a constant refrain in the radio industry.  It’s usually expressed as one of our key advantages relative to media and advertising options which are not “local” and not active in the local community. What what does “local” me...

Registration of consumers on radio’s web platforms is a hot topic at this week’s NAB. In this video I lay out some of the key arguments as to why broadcasters should absolutely positively require registration in exchange for value (and yes, those last four words are key). We are in a wor...

NPR’s recent deal with Triton Digital is more than a means of measuring webcast metrics.  It’s also an important step in the direction of monetizing NPR’s streaming content and sharing that revenue potential and that power with affiliate stations. Listen as I talk with Jay Sterin,...

So is radio’s future something that happens “between the songs” or across a variety of traditional and digital platforms? Dan Mason thinks the answer is “both,” and of course, he’s right. Dan is the president and CEO of CBS Radio and has great advice for any broad...

So Kodak filed for Chapter 11 a few weeks ago – that’s not news. But are there any lessons for radio to learn from the demise of a venerable institution once thought to be solid as a rock? Yes and no.  ”Radio” may or may not be analogous to Kodak, but you are completely unl...

Barry Leffler says you can. Barry is CEO of WCHL in Chapel Hill, NC, and Chapelboro.com, WCHL’s community-oriented site which is exploding in revenue and earning WCHL roughly twenty-times what a typical AM station might earn in digital as a percentage of total revenue. How does Barry do it? A...