Monthly Archives: June 2008

Taking Control Of The Infinite Dial by Sean Ross of Edison Media Research

30Jun

Even before Wednesday’s announcement that Chrysler would make its 2009 US models Internet enabled, terrestrial broadcasters faced multiple challenges in securing their place on The Infinite Dial: the WiMax car radio of the future that would make every station stream in the world available to motorists. The first is creating a unique selling proposition for [...]

Categories: Media 1

Posted by admin on June 30, 2008

Gentlemen. Are we ready to rock? Hmmm. Maybe not. It’s a funny word, ‘rock’… – by Geoff (big time blogger) Lloyd

27Jun

In the US, it exists much more as an umbrella name for any music played by a band with electric guitars and a drum kit to a 4/4 beat. Whether you see Springsteen and the E Street band at the Madison Square Garden, or MGMT at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia, you’d be [...]

Categories: Brands Guest posts Music 1

Posted by admin on June 27, 2008

The Kids are alright – Or are they? by Geoff Lloyd

26Jun

Hats off to the redoubtable Mr Lloyd for sticking his head above the parapet on such a contentious subject! The arguments that David lists as examples of what other, successful UK radio stations might put forward on music policy are perhaps sound, but certainly not watertight, and probably not very future-proof either. The jukebox one [...]

Categories: Guest posts Media Music 4

Posted by admin on June 26, 2008

Ah. Music repetition. What a great topic – by David Lloyd

25Jun

I remember some eccentric American radio boss at a conference panel saying: “the more I tighten the music rotations- the more the listeners scream – and the higher the ratings go”. In her markets, it was certainly true. As we know, some of the UK’s most successful stations play very little variety. They might call [...]

Categories: FAQ Guest posts 15

Posted by admin on June 25, 2008

Questioning radio – by David Lloyd

25Jun

When I get up and wave my arms around enthusing people about radio, I usually end up defaulting to my familiar theme of ‘if radio were invented today…’.   It works though. All the familiar attributes of this great 100 year old medium would impress all the more if we had not begun to take them [...]

Categories: FAQ Guest posts 0

Posted by admin on June 25, 2008