Radio2020

There is a discussion of the Performance Rights Act (PRA) scheduled for November 17 on Capitol Hill...

Here is more verification of the fact that young listeners still use radio as their medium of choice, and by a large margin too! The Council for Research Excellence (CRE), funded by The Nielsen Company, recently released the results of their Video Consumer Mapping Study...

This past year has been one filled with apprehension and economic worry. Like most other businesses out there, radio has seen a marked slide in profitability while the economy reels. Now, according to Gilford Securities analyst Jim Boyle, there is good news for broadcasters...

Picture if you will a radio station that can fit in a briefcase. Sounds like something out of The Jetsons, doesn’t it? It’s not. As a matter of fact, the first30 of them are already deployedto Ghana, the Togolese Republic,and Nigeria. Welcome to the world of portable broadcasting! Th...

College Music Journal (CMJ) recently held its annual shindig in New York City, the CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival. It’s a well-known event that usually focuses on new and breaking music and industry developments. This year, it seems that radio is getting some well deserved recognition. ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) were the recipients of a letter recently. It was handcrafted by Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and John Barrasso (R-WY), co-sponsors of the Senate version of the Local Radio Freedom Act (LRFA)...

Some of our readers might recall a post I did in late June of this year about an experiment in applying social media-based tactics to broadcast radio...

Okay, so, the most interesting tidbit of FM news coming out of the mobile device market recently has been the launch of Apple’s new version of the iPod Nano with its nifty integrated tuner. Fantastic stuff, and long overdue in my opinion. ...

In my research for these blog posts, I surf through a wide variety of websites ranging from industry publications to personal blogs and anything in between. Today, I came across an interesting post on the Broadcast Law blog concerning a royalty issue that I’m suremany of you are unaware of. ...

We are, as an industry, rightly concerned about the Performance Rights Act currently meandering its way through congress. Changes in the royalty structure for broadcast music could have potentially catastrophic effects on radio stations across the country...

There’s been all kinds of controversy about the Portable People Meter (PPM) introduced by Arbitron. Numerous challenges have been levied against it and its accuracy, while many others have supported its methodology and heralded it as the next clear step in harvesting audience metrics. ...

There is no doubt in my mind that mobile is the way to go. As the Internet becomes increasingly de-coupled from the computer, easing into its new life as an omnipresent companion, mobile devices are evolving into powerful media consumption tools...

Excitement is not the word that usually comes to mind when people think about C-Span. This weekend, however, there was excitement to be had, at least if you have an interest in radio...

Rather than focus on a single topic, today I’d like to try something new. Today’s post will be a round up of some of the more interesting radio stories I have found recently. I’ll include a link at the end of each entry to a full news article on the subject. Leav...