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mramsey1
Nov 4, 2010
You’re in the Experience Business
If the average broadcaster (and I mean the average one) ran Starbucks, what would that experience be like? Would it be even remotely like...
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mramsey1
Nov 2, 2010
The NAB doesn’t seem to understand Radio’s Future
Sometimes the NAB doesn’t understand the future of its own industry. I’m referring to one point written by NAB to Radio Ink and following...
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mramsey1
Oct 27, 2010
5 Lessons Radio can learn from Blockbuster
Blockbuster once defined the video business. Now in bankruptcy, it has shuttered thousands of stores and fired thousands of employees....
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mramsey1
Oct 26, 2010
Do Radio Programmers and Sellers Hate Each Other?
Okay, that’s an exaggeration. Let’s just say the average program director and the average seller don’t always see eye-to-eye. And who...
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mramsey1
Oct 25, 2010
Radio is about to Make a Very Bad Bet
Theoretically it makes all the sense in the world: The labels want higher licensing fees from radio? Fine, then radio wants a faster and...
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mramsey1
Oct 22, 2010
In Praise of Norman Corwin
As much as this blog is about progress in media and radio, it’s also about celebrating what makes that progress possible. Progress lives...
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mramsey1
Oct 7, 2010
Stop the “Local” Insanity
From Tom Taylor: How do you restrict a station’s streaming availability, geographically? Can you make it available just where its...
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mramsey1
Oct 6, 2010
Radio Broadcasters are Measuring the Wrong Things
Yes, I get it. We’re addicted to ratings. But treating our digital assets as proverbial red-headed step-children does them – and us – no...
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mramsey1
Oct 5, 2010
Make Radio an On-Demand Brand
An “on-demand brand” is one that “recognizes that the Internet [and everything that touches it] has moved from content retrieval and...
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mramsey1
Oct 3, 2010
How to Create Something Great
So says author and tech pioneer Steven Johnson in the latest edition of WIRED. Johnson cites a number of examples, from TV (which was too...
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mramsey1
Sep 28, 2010
Radio’s Time-Spent-Listening Fix (Hint: Don’t Hold your Breath)
Radio time-spent-listening (TSL) is declining. This is something I’ve been writing about for a long time, yet many broadcasters...
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mramsey1
Sep 28, 2010
How to be “Different” – Part 2
Youngmee Moon is the author of Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd This is the second and final part of our conversation. You can...
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mramsey1
Sep 27, 2010
How to be “Different” – Part 1
Youngmee Moon is the author of Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd This is a truly enlightening conversation, and you can catch the...
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mramsey1
Sep 21, 2010
How to Monetize Online Radio
I have argued long and hard for online radio as an important piece of radio’s digital portfolio, yet I have been faced with all the usual...
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mramsey1
Sep 16, 2010
“It’s about Me”
Once upon a time media was something you consumed and somebody else owned, often because a license was granted to them. We talk a lot...
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mramsey1
Sep 15, 2010
Get Rid of your Station’s Website
I was searching for a station online the other day and I encountered a website so appallingly bad I braced myself in case this URL...
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mramsey1
Sep 14, 2010
The Danger to Terrestrial Radio posed by Internet Radio in Cars
One third of radio listeners would listen less to local radio if they had easy access to Internet Radio built into their cars. That’s one...
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mramsey1
Sep 12, 2010
The Future of Online Radio – Talking with Slacker’s Jonathan Sasse
Talk to some broadcasters and they’ll claim that mobile device manufacturers hate online radio because of the bandwidth usage. Not so,...
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mramsey1
Sep 1, 2010
How to Be Great
I was reading a post on “what every blog needs to be great,” and was struck with the results of this poll: Why was this so striking?...
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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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