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How to Innovate the Radio Experience
Kaihaan Jamshidi is the Director of Strategy for Method, a brand experience, design, and innovation company and works with major...
mramsey1
Oct 16, 2011


Technology (and Media) After Steve
One of the lasting gifts of technology in general and Steve Jobs and Apple in particular is not the technology itself but what that...
mramsey1
Oct 12, 2011


Does your Radio Brand need a “Content Director”?
Media brands the world over are reconceptualizing the old-fashioned role of the “program director” into something entirely new, the...
mramsey1
Oct 10, 2011


The Future of Radio is Between (or instead of) the Songs
What’s the future of radio? The answer is not “technology,” although that’s part of the answer. The answer is to leverage what can’t be...
mramsey1
Sep 20, 2011


What Radio Needs is “Soul”
This is from my friend Beau Phillips, the EVP of Programming at Dial Global, a major radio industry content syndicator. Dear DG...
mramsey1
Sep 19, 2011


What are Radio’s “Great New Ideas”?
You have probably heard about the changes at Netflix. One company is now becoming two, with the original brand providing the streaming...
mramsey1
Sep 18, 2011


What you Stand for is Bigger than Radio
Recently, Malaysia’s BFM, a business radio station, interviewed me about developments in radio – what’s changed and what’s about to...
mramsey1
Sep 13, 2011


How Radio can stay “Relevant”
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:...
mramsey1
Sep 5, 2011


What Broadcasters can learn from Steve Jobs – the Tao of Steve
What lesson does Apple’s just-departed Steve Jobs have for broadcasters? As one Appler once told me, “Steve doesn’t think anybody listens...
mramsey1
Aug 25, 2011


Celebrating Radio’s first “Artificial Intelligence DJ”
She’s causing a ton of consternation in radio circles and she’s either unreal or all too real, depending on your point of view. I’m...
mramsey1
Aug 22, 2011


Radio: It’s not about More Choice – it’s about More Relevance
“Brands don’t necessarily need more choices, they need more choices that are personally relevant.” That’s from advertising giant John...
mramsey1
Aug 17, 2011


Talent Coach Valerie Geller goes “Beyond Powerful Radio” – Part 2
I’m a firm believer in the notion that what’s between what used to be called “records” is what’s most important for radio’s future over...
mramsey1
Aug 17, 2011


Talent Coach Valerie Geller goes “Beyond Powerful Radio” – Part 1
Personality is central to radio’s advantage over other media now and into the future. So how can you find (and be) a better one? Those...
mramsey1
Aug 11, 2011


You are not in the “Radio Industry”
A couple years ago, radio industry vets would have scoffed at the idea that a leading broadcaster like Radio One would ever consider...
mramsey1
Aug 10, 2011


Where is Radio (Online and On-Air) Headed?
Recently the good folks at Spacial Audio Systems interviewed me about all kinds of issues related to the trajectory of online (and...
mramsey1
Aug 7, 2011


New Wi-Fi has a range of 62 miles. Yes, really.
Once upon a time Wi-FI could barely reach from one end of your house to the other. Pundits scoffed at the idea that the Internet could...
mramsey1
Aug 3, 2011


Radio can be Better – Radio can be More
Anyone who is a “radio naysayer” is really telling radio “you can be more – you can be better.” And I think that’s a good thing. Watch...
mramsey1
Jul 6, 2011


Your Program Director has the Wrong Job
Most radio program directors have little or no incentive to develop the station’s digital assets and so these assets go undeveloped. Most...
mramsey1
Jul 6, 2011


The Problem is Radio’s Business Model
The more you profit from the status quo, the less inclined you may be to make the moves necessary to thrive in the future. This was the...
mramsey1
Jun 21, 2011


Radio Must be an “Entertainment Experience”
MarketWatch and also the first president of CBS Digital. We talked at length about the challenges media in general – and radio in...
mramsey1
Jun 14, 2011
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