Theoretically it makes all the sense in the world: The labels want higher licensing fees from radio?  Fine, then radio wants a faster and...

Radio time-spent-listening (TSL) is declining. This is something I’ve been writing about for a long time, yet many broadcasters...

That’s the essence of what one of Radio’s leading group heads said to me recently. And that explains radio’s obsession with showcasing...

This week Mediapost columnist Diane Mermigas summed up the challenge for media companies so succinctly, I wanted to showcase the core of...

Unless you broadcast from a cave, you are familiar with the Internet phenomenon that is the Old Spice Man. Tweets from regular consumers...

As more markets convert to electronic measurement, programmers face a conundrum. Minute-by-minute PPM listening data for features, artist...

From the Wall Street Journal: The first phase of Google's music service is expected to be a Web store where users can buy and download...

Last week Inside Radio featured one of the most important items of the year, and I'm guessing the significance of it evaded many readers:...

From Inside Radio: Difficulty monetizing webcasts has some broadcasters pushing for a simulcast rule re-write. As listening to station...

Facebook does. Like this: Hi Mark Ramsey, You've been selected to receive a free optimization! If you would like to participate in this...

In their words, this creates "the first-ever end-to-end technology provider for the streaming marketplace", with content delivery,...

One of the reasons why ratings are less important than ever is because accountability – measuring what works – is more important than...

A terrific and timely analysis from MediaPost: This is virtually unprecedented in U.S. history. In the past, ad-spending declines linked...

Here's a good lesson for our agency friends and our production and programming staff on the best ways to use sound. For an industry based...

First the company, made famous by friendly personal computers, launched a mobile music device and an easy system to fill it with music....

From MediaPost's Diane Mermigas: An involuntary open broadband infrastructure will universally support new addressable ad business models...

Thanks to the new – and dramatically lower – spotloads of radio alternatives like Pandora and Slacker, Sean concludes "“A drastically...

Here's Part 2 of my Q&A with Bob Gilbreath, the author of a new book called The Next Evolution of Marketing: Connect with Your Customers...

Bob Gilbreath is the author of a new book called The Next Evolution of Marketing: Connect with Your Customers by Marketing with Meaning...

Tom Asacker pointed me to this article by media pundit and F.O.H.S. (Friend of Howard Stern) Jeff Jarvis, where he made this alarming yet...