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mramsey1
- May 14, 2012
Radio Sellers and Programmers are finally on the Same Side
Value to clients is about more than running ads. And value to consumers is about more than simply playing music. That’s the new world of...
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mramsey1
- Feb 14, 2012
CBS Sports Radio gets Interactive (and so should you)
From Inside Radio: Aiming to bring talk radio fans closer to the studio, CBS Radio is beta testing a new iPhone app that enables faster,...
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mramsey1
- Feb 6, 2012
What a Radio Brand is Now
Is your radio brand nothing more than the sound emanating from the speakers produced by your tower? Or is it something much more? Well,...
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mramsey1
- Feb 3, 2012
Like Moths to Radio’s Flame
What’s the best way to defend radio’s audience from those who steal away attention and usage and ad dollars? Here’s one strategy from my...
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mramsey1
- Jan 12, 2012
Worry Less about Technology – More about Content
The title of the piece in USA Today says it all: “YouTube spends $100 million to redefine TV.” Beginning this month, YouTube is gambling...
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mramsey1
- Jan 3, 2012
“I am my own Medium”
What’s the biggest change you see on the media horizon? That was one of the questions asked of me last fall in New York during an...
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mramsey1
- Nov 16, 2011
An FM Chip in a Mobile Phone isn’t “Me”
Will FM radio ever end up pre-installed in mobile phones in the US? I doubt it, because consumers aren’t asking for radio to be built...
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mramsey1
- Nov 10, 2011
What’s Radio’s Future? That’s the Wrong Question
What’s going to happen to radio in the future? That’s what everybody wants to know, and it’s the wrong question. Here’s a better one:...
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mramsey1
- Oct 12, 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...
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mramsey1
- Oct 5, 2011
Glenn Beck on the Future of TV – and Radio
If there is no “radio,” there is only media. If there is no “television,” there is only media. And what drives each media brand is the...
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mramsey1
- Sep 20, 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...
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mramsey1
- Sep 5, 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:...
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mramsey1
- Aug 7, 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...
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mramsey1
- Jun 21, 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...
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mramsey1
- Jun 19, 2011
The Tiny Footprint of Local News Online
The audience for local news online is surprisingly small. From Lost Remote (one of my favorite blogs): A new report commissioned by the...
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mramsey1
- May 25, 2011
Is it Time for Your Station to Change its Economic Model?
“We decided to change the economic model.” That’s how Lincoln Center has thrived in an era when culture is low on the totem pole of...
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mramsey1
- Mar 28, 2011
Is Radio a Digital Laggard?
That’s what Inside Radio reports, based on a new Borrell Associates study: In what may best be described as a digital wake up call,...
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mramsey1
- Jan 10, 2011
The Most Important Takeaway for Broadcasters from CES
I’m struck by reading the post-mortems about the Consumer Electronics Show in the radio trades – the gist seems to sum up to this:...
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mramsey1
- Jan 4, 2011
How to Lead
Leadership. I submit to you that the radio industry has an abundance of managers but precious few leaders. This episode of Fareed Zakaria...
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