If there’s one book this year that best sums up what the radio industry has to do to compete in a world of infinite choice, it’s this...

Recently I was asked to speak to a group of broadcasters representing one format. “Tell us more about fans of our format,” I was asked....

How to “rescue” radio? Doc Searls has some ideas, and Doc’s a very smart man. He is, among other things, the co-author of the classic The...

[A longer version of this post appeared in NetNewsCheck] “Podcasting” is the term describing the creation and consumption of on-demand...

In this short video, I spell out what AM should do to continue to thrive. Hint: The answer’s not going to come from our friends in...

So there’s this medium-sized market unmeasured by Arbitron/Nielsen. And what does a broadcaster do when the ratings company doesn’t...

It didn’t look, feel, or smell like any other gathering of radio types. But don’t take my word for it…. Just watch this short highlight...

This strikes me as perplexing for many reasons, not the least of which is that so much of radio is neither live nor local. Yet that...

What is the LA Podcast Festival? It’s a fan appreciation event packed with live performances from the biggest names in comedy podcasts,...

Invariably, that means some in the industry will become leaders while the rest become followers and even also-rans. Mike Hodges is one of...

Among the presenters at this year’s hivio radio ideas festival were two Google execs: Gabriela D’Addario and Maggie Ferrante. They are...

All this fretting over the evolving car dashboard is so much ado about the wrong stuff. Okay…. A flood of new content is coming. Lots of...

I always enjoy chatting with someone knee-deep in technology who is not “of radio” but understands radio and the larger world of audio...

As media mix and match, as edges smudge and barriers topple, it’s inevitable that the original audio medium becomes enhanced with...

Panic is in the streets following two events this week: First, a Mark Kassof study which revealed the unsurprising news that 83% of a...

In the race to exploit new digital opportunities, Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker describes three “consumer Internet ‘white spaces’...

So what’s best, digital-only or integrated? Don’t get lost in this “either/or” – it’s a myth. It’s all about value, folks. Good or...

That’s how Apple’s marketing chief, Phil Schiller, introduced the new iPhone yesterday. You can forgive the whiff of hyperbole because...

When it comes to radio’s future, how important is it to try out stuff and take chances? Very important, if you ask Beau Phillips, former...

In a content-driven, anything – anytime world, the advantage shifts from radio stations to personalities and the entities that own or...