If the average broadcaster (and I mean the average one) ran Starbucks, what would that experience be like? Would it be even remotely like...

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...

Blockbuster once defined the video business.  Now in bankruptcy, it has shuttered thousands of stores and fired thousands of employees....

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...

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

As much as this blog is about progress in media and radio, it’s also about celebrating what makes that progress possible.  Progress lives...

From Tom Taylor: How do you restrict a station’s streaming availability, geographically?  Can you make it available just where its...

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...

An “on-demand brand” is one that “recognizes that the Internet [and everything that touches it] has moved from content retrieval and...

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...

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

Youngmee Moon is the author of Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd This is the second and final part of our conversation. You can...

Youngmee Moon is the author of Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd This is a truly enlightening conversation, and you can catch the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Talk to some broadcasters and they’ll claim that mobile device manufacturers hate online radio because of the bandwidth usage.  Not so,...

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?...

This graphic is courtesy of RadioTime. What this picture leaves out is the suddenly changing definition of “radio” in a world where...