What’s the Future of Radio in the Connected Car?
What does the crystal ball predict about the future of the so-called “connected car” and radio’s place in it? That was the purpose of my...
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mramsey1
Oct 1, 2013
“Live and Local”? I Don’t Think So
This strikes me as perplexing for many reasons, not the least of which is that so much of radio is neither live nor local. Yet that...
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mramsey1
Sep 24, 2013
What’s REALLY Happening To Radio Listening? Read This…
In order to rally and fight a problem, we must begin by recognizing its existence. The realities of changing consumer usage have...
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mramsey1
Sep 23, 2013
11 Million New Users to iTunes Radio – in One Weekend
Over 11 million unique listeners have already tuned in to iTunes Radio since launch with the most listened to song being “Hold On, We’re...
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mramsey1
Aug 28, 2013
What Broadcasters MUST Do in the Online Radio Space
In this presentation, Patrick brings us up to date on trends in online radio and explains just how much online listening is happening to...
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mramsey1
Aug 21, 2013
Newspaper Lessons in Transformation for Radio Broadcasters
Invariably, that means some in the industry will become leaders while the rest become followers and even also-rans. Mike Hodges is one of...
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mramsey1
Jul 17, 2013
The Future of Radio and Podcasting
I always enjoy chatting with someone knee-deep in technology who is not “of radio” but understands radio and the larger world of audio...
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mramsey1
May 20, 2013
I Don’t Need an App for That
The rule most broadcasters use in framing their mobile app (if they’re wise enough to have one) is: Does this app offer up a stream of...
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mramsey1
Apr 17, 2013
Radio’s Most Important Trends in Five Minutes
Want to know what’s ahead for your radio brand in just five minutes? Then this video is for you: Prefer audio? Try this: Audio clip:...
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mramsey1
Feb 7, 2013
Check Out the Reach for Streaming Radio
When we talk about online radio, it’s easy to view that as a trivial component in the average station’s strategy because, for any given...
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mramsey1
Jan 22, 2013
Great Radio is Heavy on “Humanity”
A sentence from Seth Godin’s terrific new book The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? “We don’t need more stuff, we need more...
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mramsey1
Dec 11, 2012
What Radio can learn from Otis
He stops traffic. Literally. When my wife and I take him to public places crowds swarm around him, iPhones clicking away. He’s Otis, our...
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mramsey1
Dec 10, 2012
Will Radio be Good to Great to Gone?
Alan Wurtzel is the former CEO of Circuit City, America’s late, great electronics superstore. He is also the author of a fabulous new...
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mramsey1
Jul 9, 2012
Is Radio Asking the Wrong Questions?
One of my clients is a local media company with assets in broadcast, digital, and print. It is what used to be called a “newspaper”...
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mramsey1
May 14, 2012
Scale: It’s Easier to Have than to Get
A recent Mediapost piece commented on the inevitable consolidation of players in the every-day-a-new-entrant social TV space. This is...
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mramsey1
Apr 26, 2012
What “Local” REALLY Means (and it’s not what you think)
“Local, local, local.” It’s a constant refrain in the radio industry. It’s usually expressed as one of our key advantages relative to...
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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
Feb 28, 2012
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...
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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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