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As Long As FM Radio is on Sprint Phones….
Last week one of the radio industry’s big headlines was the preliminary deal struck between Sprint and various players in radio to...
mramsey1
Jan 13, 2013
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Apple’s “Pandora Challenge” is really a Radio Industry Challenge
Apple is rumored to be launching a radio-like streaming service, and Bloomberg is missing the point. Yesterday, Bloomberg published a...
mramsey1
Oct 25, 2012
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Go Ahead – Kill Your Radio Stream
“Is it time to kill that clunky stream?” reads the headline in the Radio Ink piece. It is an interview with the National Associate...
mramsey1
Sep 14, 2012
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Radio’s Ridiculous Debate about Streaming – Part 1
The debate-of-the-week in the radio business is: What do we do to monetize our stream? Do we simulcast what’s on the air and throw it in...
mramsey1
Aug 28, 2012
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Radio is “Almost Invisible” to the Internet
Michael Robertson is best known as the founder of digital music pioneer MP3.com, but today he has an exciting new project, DAR.FM, that...
mramsey1
Jun 4, 2012
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Pandora: Internet Radio Growth coming from AM/FM
So says Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy in this opening session highlight from the recent Worldwide Radio Summit, moderated by Triton’s Mike...
mramsey1
May 8, 2012
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A Chilling Measure of How Listeners see Pandora vs. Radio
A recent Jacobs Media research finding noted that 43% of Pandora users say the service should be considered “radio” while 49% say it...
mramsey1
Apr 30, 2012
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Radio, Should You Register Your Listeners Online?
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...
mramsey1
Apr 16, 2012
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NPR’s New Ability to Power Streaming Monetization
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...
mramsey1
Apr 9, 2012
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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 –...
mramsey1
Mar 23, 2012
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SiriusXM is Stealing Your Fans
It’s largely off the radar for most broadcasters but I have noticed something interesting in the past year or so: Satellite radio is...
mramsey1
Feb 28, 2012
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Don’t Simulcast your On-Air and Online Radio Spots
Talk to many broadcasters and you’ll hear a common refrain: We wish we could simulcast our on-air spots with our online ones and bundle...
mramsey1
Feb 20, 2012
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Arbitron’s Small Sample Problem – it’s Worse than you Think
It’s not news that Arbitron has a problem with small samples in PPM markets. Every broadcaster in these markets has bumped into this...
mramsey1
Feb 10, 2012
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Pandora at 125 Million
No matter how many or how few listeners are tuned to Pandora at any given moment, 125 million registered users is a whole lot. Think of...
mramsey1
Jan 18, 2012
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R.I.P. Arbitron’s Total Audience Measurement
Earlier this week, a number of leading broadcasters piped in on a scenario whereby Pandora and other online radio services would be...
mramsey1
Dec 20, 2011
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Arbitron doesn’t like Audience Estimate Comparisons
Can you convert streaming metrics to shares and compare those shares to the numbers in an Arbitron ranker? Of course you can, but that...
mramsey1
Dec 19, 2011
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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...
mramsey1
Nov 1, 2011
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Why Simulcasting Ads on Radio Streams is Dumb
Yesterday I talked with a broadcaster who is considering simulcasting their over-the-air stations with their online streams, including...
mramsey1
Oct 31, 2011
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Pandora’s Ads “are as Valuable as Traditional Stations'” Ads
That’s the word from newly public Pandora on their first-ever quarterly report. As GigaOm writes: Pandora posted total revenue of $67...
mramsey1
Aug 27, 2011
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“Pandora is Clearly Radio”
“Pandora is clearly radio,” not – as some folks insist on arguing, a “feature.” So says Daniel Ek, CEO of music service Spotify, who...
mramsey1
Jul 21, 2011
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