In this Inside Music Media post, Jerry Del Colliano quotes radio consultant Alan Burns, who concludes “radio is in danger of losing its future adult audience”: Note Burns said “future adult audience” not young audience which radio has arguably already lost. This notion is not new to those of you who meet here at this [...]
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Hilarious post on Jerry Del Colliano’s Inside Music Media today: Okay, it wasn’t a promotion in Hartford but it really happened. Here’s a reader account: “It’s not just CC that is downgrading engineering. “I bought a new HD clock radio for my wife because the CBS 50K AM in Hartford doesn’t come in well where [...]
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Fresh Air is back on in Mississippi, according to this post from Tom Taylor’s blog on radio-info.com: NPR’s “Fresh Air with Terry Gross” is reinstated by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, though the award-winning interview show will now air at 9pm instead of 3pm. Public radio monitor-pub Current says the Mississippi outfit “took a drubbing from angry [...]
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Jack Hannold passes along word on what he calls the “consolidators” — companies like Clear Channel and Cumulus, who aim to make their money by buying up stations and selling them for a profit (not by actually offering a good product) — are doing now with what’s called translators. Translators can be used to extend [...]
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Arbitron took another hit on the internet with this post on allaccess.com, which has Harker Research saying the PPM is inferior to Nielsen, in so many words. The story quotes Harker, saying: “Seven billion more dollars. That’s what we estimate radio stations in the top-50 markets could add to their billing if radio used Nielsen [...]
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Funny exchange in the Google group, under the heading “The most harebrained ‘HD’ promotion yet?”: Jack Hannold: Clear Channel-owned Inside Radio plans to give away five different model “HD” receivers over the next five weeks to its readers — almost all of whom presumably work in radio. Is this preaching to the choir? Or is it an attempt to [...]
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The trend over the past decade in Austin at public station KUT has been fewer donors, larger donations. Response from the bean counters: hiring rainmakers, companies that specialize in attracting corporate donations. The effect has been, as so aptly put by saveKUTaustin member Jody Lazo, to build an overpass to the “landed gentry,” the “underwriters” [...]
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Here’s a novel thought. We reported on the tiff over the University of Virginia’s WTJU hiring of a new PD and making plans to change the format (“Fear and Loathing in Charlottesville,” here). It created quite a furor on campus, with all kinds of public outcry. Well, apparently it did some good. An article on [...]
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This post on rbr.com, entitled “The dark inky mystery that is PPM,” summarizes the problems seen in Arbitron’s “new, improved” Portable People Meter. This is the radio rating device relied upon by commercial radio stations to sell ads — and the new god worshiped by the bean counters at our public radio stations as well, [...]
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This tidbit from Randall Bloomquist of the newstalkedge on radio-info.com, on PDs facing the Arbitron PPM for the first time. He quotes Rick Scott from RSA Sports International: It’s really very simple: If the content isn’t good, the audience tunes out. Creating and delivering content that has value for the listener is the number one [...]
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