What’s the best way to defend radio’s audience from those who steal away attention and usage and ad dollars? Here’s one strategy from my...

Recently I was interviewed by Olivia Collette for Sparksheet, a business-to-business blog on media, content and marketing.  Olivia has...

The title of the piece in USA Today says it all:  “YouTube spends $100 million to redefine TV.” Beginning this month, YouTube is gambling...

Will FM radio ever end up pre-installed in mobile phones in the US? I doubt it, because consumers aren’t asking for radio to be built...

One of the lasting gifts of technology in general and Steve Jobs and Apple in particular is not the technology itself but what that...

There’s no doubt that technology is bringing new choices to an auto dashboard near you.  Nor is there any doubt that consumers will...

That’s what Ford is arguing. Then again, I am not so sure Ford knows why folks listen to the radio or why they keep listening. After all,...

Last week I was interviewed for a radio show by an international broadcaster and she asked me one question that has haunted me for days:...

What’s the point of having an “audience”? If it’s to sell that audience as faceless, nameless ears and eyes in bulk to advertisers, then...

Recently Mashable covered five ways the ad industry is prepping for a digital tomorrow.  Drawing from their piece, I’m going to cover two...

The audience for local news online is surprisingly small. From Lost Remote (one of my favorite blogs): A new report commissioned by the...

When you are a consistently top-ranked station in a top-ranked market taking in advertising dollars hand over fist it’s bound to skew...

“We decided to change the economic model.” That’s how Lincoln Center has thrived in an era when culture is low on the totem pole of...

Increasingly, radio recognizes that Pandora is a rising presence, both among listeners and advertisers. What to do about that? Well,...

That’s what Inside Radio reports, based on a new Borrell Associates study: In what may best be described as a digital wake up call,...

Recently CNN’s Fareed Zakaria spoke with Sony Chairman Howard Stringer about Japan’s post-crisis economic recovery. In the context of...

Will Pandora expand to spoken word (I hate that term passionately) content? Not any time soon, I think.  But here’s the take from the New...

The week after online radio leader Pandora announces a slew of new automaker deals and releases news that they have topped 75 million...

I’m struck by reading the post-mortems about the Consumer Electronics Show in the radio trades – the gist seems to sum up to this:...

Leadership. I submit to you that the radio industry has an abundance of managers but precious few leaders. This episode of Fareed Zakaria...