Peter Smyth artfully defends the radio industry
A wonderful defense of radio from one of its most respected leaders, Peter Smyth at Greater Media: Local, free radio represents every...
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mramsey1
Jun 15, 2008
Radio Station Marketers: You’re not in the “Words” business
Highlights from a new article by my friend, branding guru (I’ll bet he hates that title) Tom Asacker: Marketers are obsessed with words. ...
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mramsey1
Jun 2, 2008
Radio websites: Why do you Exist?
Inside Radio today commented on the projection, noted here previously, that radio will get 2% of local web dollars. That amount is...
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mramsey1
Apr 28, 2008
“There’s no sex in them anymore”
Apple’s top staff were summoned to an early morning meeting at company HQ, reports the new book Inside Steve’s Brain. “[Steve] plunked...
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mramsey1
Mar 27, 2008
“People would call CKLW before they’d call the police”
Part nostalgia, part silly, part nuts, part passionate, part joyous, part sad. Such is the history of radio. Even the history of radio...
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mramsey1
Mar 14, 2008
Cramer trashes Radio Stocks again
Another week, another vicious and hysterical rant from CNBC’s Jim Cramer on the fortunes of one of his favorite whipping boys, radio...
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mramsey1
Feb 11, 2008
What the Writers’ Strike means for Radio
On the surface, not a thing. If anything maybe some folks spent more of their TV time with their radios. But what will be the...
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mramsey1
Feb 10, 2008
“Free Radio” – Radio biz satirized on new VH1 show
Radio has always been prime content for funny material. WKRP in Cincinnati only scratched the surface. Now the surface gets scratched a...
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mramsey1
Jan 23, 2008
Interactivity: A lost opportunity for your station?
From a Harris Poll on TV and interactivity: Viewers want advanced interactive television functionality across every genre of programming...
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mramsey1
Jan 9, 2008
Finding New music in unusual places
From Saga’s Steve Goldstein (thanks, Steve!): Have you ever heard of recording artist Ingrid Michaelson? Probably not. Have you ever...
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mramsey1
Dec 19, 2007
Look for higher music license fees, Radio
From Inside Radio: Months of jockeying became less theoretical and more literal yesterday, as bills were introduced in both the House and...
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mramsey1
Nov 25, 2007
Ratings and Goals and Outcomes and Steve Martin
So says actor, comedian, and author Steve Martin in the opening pages of his outstanding new book about his early years, Born Standing...
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mramsey1
Nov 5, 2007
Bill Moyers’ faulty Journal
I don’t think Bill Moyers knows. I have the greatest respect for Moyers and I’m a fan of his work. His program, Bill Moyers Journal, is...
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mramsey1
Nov 4, 2007
“Talk to Me”
I don’t usually use this space to recommend movies, but it’s rare that a movie is about radio and is actually worth seeing. Such a movie...
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mramsey1
Oct 2, 2007
Reflections on NAB Radio Show 2007
Here are some thoughts on last week’s radio convention and the State of our Industry from Bill Figenshu, formerly COO of Softwave Media...
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mramsey1
Jun 6, 2007
How “Personal” is your News?
Traveling around the country, I’ll often hear stations – particularly AM stations with a heavy news posture – talk about the importance...
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mramsey1
Jun 4, 2007
Beware the Insider’s Perspective
There’s a fascinating sentence in a book I’m reading now (more on that book in the weeks to come), and this is it: “Don’t get so caught...
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mramsey1
Apr 23, 2007
Is the 8-second talk break the future?
This is an email allegedly from a Clear Channel Regional VP to his staff. Although much of this rings true, I can’t vouch for its...
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mramsey1
Apr 16, 2007
How NOT to cover a tragedy
From a broadcaster in Virgina, as yesterday’s news was breaking: 32 dead in the single largest mass murder in this country’s history, at...
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