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mramsey1
Jan 12, 2011
Pandora Today and Tomorrow – Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy (Part 1)
The week after online radio leader Pandora announces a slew of new automaker deals and releases news that they have topped 75 million...
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mramsey1
Dec 12, 2010
The Evolving Economics of Online Radio – a talk with Triton’s Mike Agovino
Does radio have a future in the world of online radio? Or is this a future that belongs to the pure-plays – the Pandoras and the...
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mramsey1
Dec 11, 2010
5 Reasons Sirius/XM does not need to fear Pandora
Pandora and other online radio pure-plays want to be in the car, and that will mean trouble for Sirius/XM, right? After all, Pandora et....
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mramsey1
Nov 7, 2010
12 Satisfying Seconds of Advertising
So I’m listening to Pandora on my home audio/TV system via my Blu-Ray DVD player. I was tuned in for about an hour as I read a book,...
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mramsey1
Oct 27, 2010
5 Lessons Radio can learn from Blockbuster
Blockbuster once defined the video business. Now in bankruptcy, it has shuttered thousands of stores and fired thousands of employees....
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mramsey1
Oct 25, 2010
Radio is about to Make a Very Bad Bet
Theoretically it makes all the sense in the world: The labels want higher licensing fees from radio? Fine, then radio wants a faster and...
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mramsey1
Oct 21, 2010
The State of Online Radio
What’s new in online radio and what are the implications for advertising? That was the topic in a recent conference call hosted for a...
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mramsey1
Oct 12, 2010
Is Radio Waving its Future Goodbye?
From Bloomberg: By early next year, Ford Motor Co. will be shipping Fiesta cars with software that operates Pandora via voice controls....
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mramsey1
Sep 22, 2010
Radio’s Personalization Revolution
What’s the point in this, you might ask? The point is that value accrues to that which can be customized to my own interests and tastes....
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mramsey1
Sep 16, 2010
“It’s about Me”
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...
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mramsey1
Sep 12, 2010
The Future of Online Radio – Talking with Slacker’s Jonathan Sasse
Talk to some broadcasters and they’ll claim that mobile device manufacturers hate online radio because of the bandwidth usage. Not so,...
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mramsey1
Sep 10, 2010
Simulcast your Spots on Radio and Online? Don’t.
Right now, some sticky AFTRA rules preclude this for the most part. If we’re lucky, the thinking goes, the stream will add to the...
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mramsey1
Aug 25, 2010
Everything you Need to Know about FM Radio Chips in Mobile Phones and NextRadio
As the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for. Question: With FM on mobile phones I will no longer need to stream my content,...
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mramsey1
Aug 11, 2010
Radio’s Wrong-Headed Performance Royalty Plan
I know you guys mean well. I know you are listening hard to your constituency of broadcasters and trying your best to serve their will....
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mramsey1
Aug 8, 2010
The End of “Local”
“One of our remaining competitive advantages relative to blossoming competitors is simply this – we’re local, they’re not.” But what do...
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