FM on Mobile Phones? Be Careful what you Wish For
What’s the best way for radio to compete in a newly digital mobile environment? Is it to ensure that every mobile phone has an activated...
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mramsey1
Jun 16, 2012
Radio’s Mobile Challenge
I think most broadcasters are thinking about mobile all wrong. The thinking goes like this: “We need a dedicated mobile app for our...
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mramsey1
May 31, 2012
Dive in to Mobile Local Media at the MLM SF Conference
Your radio station is, as is often argued, a local media company. And the big growth in local media is in the mobile space. That’s why...
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mramsey1
May 29, 2012
Here Comes the New Dashboard
So what’s in store for the auto dashboard of tomorrow? It may not be whatever’s on the drawing board in Detroit (or in the picture...
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mramsey1
Mar 29, 2012
What Wins in the New Radio Dashboard
A huge proportion of radio listening happens on the mobile devices known as automobiles, especially during the aptly-titled “drive...
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mramsey1
Mar 23, 2012
Radio’s Tablet Future
To understand the future you have to understand the folks who will populate it, especially those folks coming into demos that matter –...
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mramsey1
Mar 15, 2012
Radio has the Wrong Idea about Mobile Apps
…or at least, not completely the right idea. Consider the study from the IPG Media Lab and YuMe.com which examined “advertising in the...
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mramsey1
Feb 14, 2012
CBS Sports Radio gets Interactive (and so should you)
From Inside Radio: Aiming to bring talk radio fans closer to the studio, CBS Radio is beta testing a new iPhone app that enables faster,...
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mramsey1
Jan 31, 2012
“I’ll Have what She’s Having”
Why do what you’re doing? Because everybody else in radio seems to be doing it? Or because it’s the right thing for you and your...
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mramsey1
Dec 14, 2011
Why I like SiriusXM’s new Mobile App
It hasn’t gotten a ton of attention, but SiriusXM’s recently revised mobile apps add some functionality which I think makes a dramatic...
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mramsey1
Nov 1, 2011
What’s the Future of Radio in Cars?
What will the dashboard look like in the car of the very near future? And what will radio look like there? Those are some of the...
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mramsey1
Jul 27, 2011
New survey shows when FM is built-in to mobile phones, most consumers don’t use it
How many US radio listeners already have FM built-in to their mobile phones? And how often do they use it? How does this compare to the...
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mramsey1
Jul 19, 2011
The Best Mobile App Your Radio Station Doesn’t Have
There’s an app for almost everything, to be sure. And that means two things in particular: All apps are not created equal, and there...
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mramsey1
Jan 5, 2011
Toyota’s Entune raises the stakes for Radio Online and on the Road
Here’s a peek at Toyota’s new Entune in-dash entertainment system, which includes Pandora, iheartradio, local search, movie tickets,...
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mramsey1
Nov 29, 2010
Apple helps Radio by Banning “Bad” Apps
You’ve heard the dustup over whether or not Apple has unceremoniously banned all single-station apps from their app store. The evidence...
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mramsey1
Nov 9, 2010
Wake up, Radio, to the Mobile Challenge
I’ve been pondering this question: Which way would consumers prefer to listen to the radio on their mobile devices, over the Internet or...
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mramsey1
Oct 19, 2010
Now who Rules the Air?
Hint: It’s not Verizon. A picture is worth more than a thousand words. There’s nothing “hot” about this air. As an industry we need to...
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mramsey1
Aug 27, 2010
The Evolution of the Car Radio
This graphic is courtesy of RadioTime. What this picture leaves out is the suddenly changing definition of “radio” in a world where...
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mramsey1
Jun 3, 2010
The Future of Mobile Radio?
At the same time, publicity swirled about the radio industry's efforts to push for radio chips on mobile phones. My belief is that...
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