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French Music Radio in Campaign Against Quotas
An alliance of nine French music radio stations have launched an initiative against the quotas for French-language music. The quotas were introduced in 1994 and means that at least 35% of music output...
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Global Radio Advertising Down 0.9%
The global radio advertising expenditure was down 0.9% in the first three quarters of 2013, according to Nielsen’s latest Global AdView Pulse report. Radio remains a bigger advertising medium than the...
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Stop Picking on Pandora, Radio
So is Pandora “radio” or isn’t it? I have (correctly) argued “yes” here and here and here. “Radio” is a menu of value propositions – “jobs”, combinations of which consumers “hire your brand for” every...
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Wrist-Powered Radio?
There’s a tendency to obsess on devices. But if you’re in the content business devices are only channels of distribution for that content. The real challenge and opportunity for media brands is to...
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Apple and Google Want the Car Dashboard – Now
Dear Radio Listeners: Apple and Google want you! Even (and perhaps especially) when you’re in your car. Here’s a video showing some of the navigation functionality of the “coming soon” iOS upgrade:...
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It’s Time to Rethink Rewards Programs
The logic of the famous 20:80 rule dictates that the more effort any radio brand invests in its biggest fans, the more that has potential to pay off with a stream of loyalty, usage, preference,...
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Hey Radio: “The Shark is Not Working”
JAWS is a classic movie not because of its shark but because its shark is hardly in the movie. Check out what the late producer Richard D. Zanuck told Rue Morgue about the shark that was, it seems,...
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Communicorp Becomes the UK’s Fourth Largest Radio Company
The Irish radio group Communicorp will buy eight radio stations in the UK, making Communicorp the fourth largest owner of commercial radio in the UK. Communicorp has agreed to buy eight regional...
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“What Else Ya Got?”
Not long ago I was pitching a TV project to a cable network programming head. It wasn’t quite the right fit, evidently, and he told me so. But then he asked a question I hadn’t expected: “What else ya...
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Clip Interactive: Making Your Radio Mobile App Better
If you’re like me you get an empty feeling from too many radio mobile apps. The addition of podcasts and social links can’t mask the fact that the app is often little more than the audio stream with a...
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Emmis Buys New York’s WBLS
Emmis Communications has announced the acquisition of the two New York stations WBLS-FM (urban AC) and WLIB-AM (gospel) from YMF Media, in a deal worth 131 million US dollars. WBLS and WLIB are...
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LBC Goes National in the UK
London talk radio station LBC now broadcasts throughout the UK, using the national commercial digital radio network. LBC (London Broadcasting Company) was launched in 1973 as the UK’s first legal...
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Lessons for Your Radio Brand from Anchorman 2
Is your radio brand just a radio brand? This past holiday season one movie changed what it means to be a “movie,” and there’s a lesson wrapped up in that change for any radio brand, too. The movie was...
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Clear Channel Leaves Australian Radio Market
APN News & Media will become the sole owner of Australian Radio Network (ARN) and New Zeeland’s The Radio Network (TRN), The Sydney Morning Herald reports. The deal means that APN News & Media...
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Go Big or Go Home
If you are in Nashville for the Country Radio Seminar, stop by my presentation at 11am on Thursday, February 20. The title: BUILDING A STRONG BRAND NO MATTER WHAT TECHNOLOGY DOES Here’s the...
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The Future of Radio In a Nutshell
Want to hear some great ideas on the future of radio and the role of what we sometimes call “podcasting” in it? Then watch this video. It’s the New Media Show from Geek News Central with Todd Cochrane...
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6 Reasons Radio Listeners IGNORE Your Morning Show
You know the routine. Your radio station introduces a new morning show and you sit back and wait for the magic to happen. And you wait…and you wait. Still, the audience doesn’t know them, doesn’t care...
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Radio’s Misplaced Obsession on “Local”
Not a week goes by that some broadcaster doesn’t bemoan radio’s unfortunate “nationalization” and the urgent need for radio brands to get back to what they are presumed to do best: Be local. This is a...
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DMG Radio Australia Becomes Nova Entertainment
DMG Radio Australia, one of Australia’s biggest radio owners, will be rebranded as Nova Entertainment, reports media news sites Radio Today and Mumbrella. In 2009, Lachlan Murdoch’s Illyria bought 50%...
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Europe’s Largest Radio Conference
Radiodays Europe has become the largest radio business conference in Europe and is increasingly visited by radio professionals from other parts of the world. The fifth annual Radiodays Europe will be...
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