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Tag Archives: media
The Return of Journalism and News Reporting
Invariably when watching the press conference following a professional sports game or in the locker room directly afterwards, some of the reporters are asking some stupid questions. At the same time many of those sports journalists are asking very pointed, … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Sports
Tagged Bob Costas, journalism, media, news, politics, reporting, Sports, television
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So Far In 2010: Digital Drops, Non-Traditional Rises
From Billboard.biz By Ed Christman, N.Y. With the first quarter of 2010 now completed, the good news for the U.S. music industry is the slowing decline of album sales. And another observation is the emergence of the non-traditional sector as … Continue reading
Top 10 Radio Trends for 2010
Top 10 Trends for 2010 By: Daniel Anstandig Social Media means Qualified Prospects. There are over five billion tweets sent per day, and the people who tweet have been shown in a number of studies to spend more money on … Continue reading
Posted in Business/Marketing, Radio
Tagged 2010, broadcasting, comapanies, future, marketing, media, Radio, Social Media, trends
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Take a Breath and Reinvent
The music industry goes quiet for a couple of weeks. Other than Christmas tours, there isn’t much happening on the road. Radio is in Christmas music gear and as a result label radio promotion and marketing slows. Record companies are obviously hoping … Continue reading
Posted in Music Business, Radio, Technology
Tagged broadcasting, media, Music Business, music industry, Radio
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Sailing Away from the Safe Harbor
Radio’s Digital Blue Ocean Why radio needs to move away from the red ocean and into the deep blue seas… by Daniel Anstandig Future success can be accomplished with a new way of thinking and an adjustment to radio’s business … Continue reading
Coming Home from the Real World
I am back home in Nashville and still in recovery mode. I appreciate Chris, Elizabeth, and Brian for their contributions to the blog while I was away. It feels like I was out for a month, so forgive me if … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Personal
Tagged Africa, entertainment, Life, media, Travel
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How Far Will We Chase Older Demos?
The demographic of country radio is skewing higher. The more we chase the demo, the higher the age keeps getting. Logic would tell us that in order to grow the format we can’t rely on the older demo, but the … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Music Business, Radio
Tagged broadcasting, country, entertainment, media, Radio
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Clear Channel Opening Up a New Box
Clear Channel is streaming a couple of Pandora stations on various individual web properties. Will this testing of the waters turn into something more long term? Check out the Wired article here.
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Radio
Tagged broadcasting, clear channel, media, Pandora, Radio
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Young Guns: 30 Under 30
Edison Media Research has announced their “30 Under 30″ honorees, which is the nationwide vote for 30 promising talents under 30 years of age in the radio industry. A special shout out to my friends Daniel Anstandig, President McVay New Media and Scott … Continue reading
Judges Ruling Favors Songwriters, ASCAP
A federal judge has ruled that Yahoo, AOL, and RealNetworks could owe songwriters as much as $100 million over seven years as payment for streaming their songs on the web. ASCAP has been caught up in a court case with … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Music Business, Technology
Tagged AOL, internet, media, Music, Technology, Yahoo
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Digital Summit Highlights: Retail
One of the more interesting panel discussions of the Leadership Music Digital Summit yesterday was “Digital Retail: What’s The Future?” On the issue of the future of CD product, UMG Nashville EVP Sales, Marketing & New Media Ben Kline said, “I can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Music Business
Tagged business, digital, entertainment, marketing, media, Music, Technology
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Digital Summit
Leadership Music Digital Summit is going on today in Nashville. The keynote was delivered by the CEO of iLike, Ali Partovi, who mentioned that it was the first keynote he has given. With all of the questions, concerns and potential regarding the future of … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Miscellaneous, Radio
Tagged broadcasting, digital, media, Radio, Technology
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The Future of Radio Advertising
Radio Ink recently released the findings of a phone survey of 1,004 U.S. adults. Among the findings the survey showed that 53 percent of listeners said they stick with a station through commercial breaks, 35 percent change the station, and 8 percent turn … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Radio
Tagged advertising, broadcasting, entertainment, media, Radio
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Colorful Music
How would you feel about a music site that organizes music according to your moods? What would be your thoughts about a destination where you can legally download MP3′s based on emotions? Guitarati is conducting this grand sonically visual experience by assigning colors to … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Music Business
Tagged business, entertainment, media, mp3, Music, Technology
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Does Your Radio Station Have Video?
If not, why not? Radio will need to embrace aggressive podcasting and video strategies to compete for the attention of future listeners. The age of P1 demo of many country radio stations is rising because they are losing younger generations of consumers. … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Radio
Tagged broadcasting, country, entertainment, media, Radio, Technology, youtube
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Guest Blogger: McVay New Media President Daniel Anstandig
RADIO IN 3D by Daniel Anstandig Radio cannot grow if its operators insist on constricting the delivery of their brands to the sense of sound. Sure, there is no way around the fact that “speakers to ears” is our primary … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers, Media & Entertainment, Radio
Tagged advertising, country, daniel anstandig, entertainment, media, Radio
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What is Randy Michaels up to?
Does anyone think it is interesting that Lee Abrams left XM to work for Randy Michaels? Jerry Del Calliano thinks it is not only interesting, but suspicious. Find out what he means on his blog Inside Music Media. Lee, in … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Radio
Tagged broadcasting, clear channel, media, Radio
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CRS: Boom Or Bust
I attended several tech panels today, which I am glad to see on the schedule. One in particular was a panel that had Sean Ross from Edison Research, Dean Ernst from Play MPE and Jim Kerr from Pollack Media Group. … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Music Business
Tagged country, entertainment, media, Music, Radio, Technology
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Giving Power Back To The Program Director
Jerry Del Colliano from Inside Music Media lists the 5 new rules for radio PD’s (addressed to consolidators or other serial abusers), so look out: 1. One PD per station. It used to be that a successful program director lived, breathed … Continue reading
The New Economics Of Music
Chris Anderson & economist Jacques Attali speaking at the 2007 Midemnet Forum about the future of the music business. The revolution is happening……
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Music Business
Tagged business, digital, entertainment, media, Music, Technology
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The Economy Of Free
Chris Anderson, Editor In Chief of Wired, is currently writing a follow up to his incredible book “The Long Tail”. The subject is the interesting phenomenon of FREE. In the spirit of the subject, a free 6,000 word preview and … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Music Business
Tagged chris anderson, magazine, media, Technology, the long tail, wired
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Inside Music Media Blog
Inside Music Media is the blog of Jerry Del Colliano, founder of Inside Radio and current professor of Music Industry at USC. I could not decide which article to link to because they are all extremely relevant and well done, so … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Radio
Tagged broadcasting, business, entertainment, media, Music, Radio
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Guest Blogger – President/McVay New Media’s Daniel Anstandig
Tell Me a Story By: Daniel Anstandig Music legend Ray Charles once said that he “was born with music inside” himself. It could be said that the best loved songs in history are the ones that resonate and harmonize with … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers, Radio
Tagged branding, broadcasting, consulting, daniel anstandig, marketing, media, Radio, research
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Personality Crisis?
Here is an interesting follow up to yesterday’s post regarding Jim Cramer’s predictions. It is from Media Week and about the need for radio to get back to live and local personalities to compete for the future. Personality Crisis: Will Cost … Continue reading
Dire Predictions For Radio From CNBC Host Jim Cramer
Jim Cramer made an appearance on Wall Street Confidential on Friday and had some strong comments regarding the future of terrestrial radio. Cramer commented, ”It’s over for radio. The radio fundamentals are so poor. The industry is going away” What is your … Continue reading
Grammy Observations
I don’t always watch the Grammys. It can be a bloated, over politicized, and a clueless evening. And they have a history of treating the Country format horribly. Or is that the MTV Awards? No matter. However, there are always … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Music Business
Tagged entertainment, grammy awards, herbie hancock, media, Music
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Generation On-Demand
Ever stop to think about the newest generation and what their reality of the world is and how it will impact them as they grow up? An interesting article from Media Week on what the implications could be as it … Continue reading
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Tagged entertainment, Life, media, Radio, Technology
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