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Apple’s “Pandora Challenge” is really a Radio Industry Challenge
Apple is rumored to be launching a radio-like streaming service, and Bloomberg is missing the point. Yesterday, Bloomberg published a...
mramsey1
Oct 25, 2012


Beware the “Commercial Cliff”
The spot load on some radio stations continues to swell. But how much is too much? At what point will audiences and advertisers decide...
mramsey1
Oct 24, 2012


The Importance of Surprising the Audience
We focus a lot on expectations: Brands need to live up to them. True enough. But there’s another side to that equation. If lots of...
mramsey1
Oct 23, 2012


How to Make Local Digital Sales More Effective
Local radio is now, more than ever, in the local media business. And that means not just selling spots or selling digital ideas that live...
mramsey1
Oct 17, 2012


The Rise of “Radio as a Feature”
We are witnessing the dawn of a new age: The rise of radio as a feature. That means “radio” isn’t simply a media category run by media...
mramsey1
Oct 17, 2012


Pandora, Lefsetz, and Common Sense
Every now and then I read something which is so totally off the wall it demands a thoughtful response. So it is with Bob Lefsetz’s recent...
mramsey1
Oct 11, 2012


Local Public Radio: What To Do…
…in a world where the networks you pay for content circumvent you by distributing much of that same content online? This is a complicated...
mramsey1
Oct 9, 2012


What Happened to Music FIRST?
And so the critically important fight over music rights fees wears on. Pandora lobbies in favor of the Internet Radio Fairness Act now...
mramsey1
Oct 3, 2012


Consumers Don’t Care about your Messages
There’s a difference between giving people what they desire and messaging them to convince them that what you have is what they desire....
mramsey1
Oct 3, 2012


TV’s Digital Lessons for Radio
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...
mramsey1
Sep 26, 2012
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