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Maybe News doesn’t work on FM?
So another News option vanishes from the dial in NY and Chicago. Does this mean “News doesn’t work on FM?” Of course not. It just means...
mramsey1
Jul 17, 2012


Radio: A Sure Path to Lower Ratings
So the early results are in in the battle between DirecTV and Viacom, and they’re not pretty – for Viacom. Thanks to a deal dispute,...
mramsey1
Jul 17, 2012


Socializing your Radio Platform
Radio has been (incorrectly) referred to as the “original social network.” But if it’s so social, then why are our platforms so...
mramsey1
Jul 11, 2012


Is Radio Asking the Wrong Questions?
One of my clients is a local media company with assets in broadcast, digital, and print. It is what used to be called a “newspaper”...
mramsey1
Jul 9, 2012


Radio, Comic-Con, and the Future of Entertainment
Comic-Con opens this week in San Diego. It’s ground zero for media and popular culture and one of the biggest star-studded events this...
mramsey1
Jul 9, 2012


Show Me the New Talent
A friend in Public Radio reached out to me the other day. He was looking for talent. Fresh talent. For a major broadcast client who...
mramsey1
Jul 5, 2012


PPM and Agency: Crack meet Addict
Recently I heard a story of a station in a large market whose ratings have skyrocketed recently. What sort of genius programming is...
mramsey1
Jul 2, 2012


Apple’s New “Podcasts” App – Radio’s Friend or Foe?
Podcasts are emerging from the dungeons of iTunes in their own dedicated app. You can get it yourself here. If you’re a podcast fan,...
mramsey1
Jun 28, 2012


WMMR’s Bill Weston on Why Personalities Matter
Philadelphia Rock legend WMMR has that rarest of things: A live overnight host. Why bother? And what does this say about the importance...
mramsey1
Jun 26, 2012


Razorfish’s Clark Kokich – Radio must “Do or Die” – Part 2
This is part two of one of the most important interviews you will watch, read, or listen to this year. Clark Kokich is the chairman...
mramsey1
Jun 20, 2012


Razorfish’s Clark Kokich: Radio must “Do or Die” – Part 1
This is one of the most important interviews you will watch, read, or listen to this year. Clark Kokich is the chairman of Razorfish, the...
mramsey1
Jun 19, 2012


Chasing the Unicorn
Last week Seth Godin penned another pearl: The easiest way to sell yourself short is to compare your work to the competition. To say that...
mramsey1
Jun 18, 2012


Big Changes Coming for Podcasts – and Radio may be in the Bulls-Eye
From CultofMac: Apple’s developer release of iOS 6 created an instant mystery: Podcasts are missing from the iTunes app! In fact,...
mramsey1
Jun 17, 2012


Radio’s Mobile Challenge
I think most broadcasters are thinking about mobile all wrong. The thinking goes like this: “We need a dedicated mobile app for our...
mramsey1
Jun 16, 2012


A Podcast is an Ad for Everything Else we Do
I’m on vacation this week, so my posts will be sparer and pithier than usual (I can already hear some of you mutter “good news!”). But...
mramsey1
Jun 11, 2012


Un-Music is the Future of Radio
One of radio’s biggest problems is that our industry has a tendency to imagine itself inside a bubble. A bubble where the best practices...
mramsey1
Jun 5, 2012


Radio is “Almost Invisible” to the Internet
Michael Robertson is best known as the founder of digital music pioneer MP3.com, but today he has an exciting new project, DAR.FM, that...
mramsey1
Jun 4, 2012


Dive in to Mobile Local Media at the MLM SF Conference
Your radio station is, as is often argued, a local media company. And the big growth in local media is in the mobile space. That’s why...
mramsey1
May 31, 2012


Seth Godin on the Evolution from Advertising to Marketing
The following is transcribed from the Copyblogger podcast “Internet Marketing for Smart People Radio,” hosted by Robert Bruce. It’s an...
mramsey1
May 31, 2012


Here Comes the New Dashboard
So what’s in store for the auto dashboard of tomorrow? It may not be whatever’s on the drawing board in Detroit (or in the picture...
mramsey1
May 29, 2012
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