tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145485002024-09-05T19:52:22.257-07:00<i>There is no heavier burden than a great potential.<br> ~ Charles Schulz</i>DAVE NEWTONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266605793504741624noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14548500.post-1157160706784422722006-09-01T18:27:00.000-07:002006-10-13T10:27:29.255-07:00

I've moved my blogging activity on radio to my new book Web site, MarconiDreams.com. I'm focusing even more on my novel, a work in progress, and the posts there will be less industry-oriented and more in line with my objective, to create a supporting site for the book. I'll be leaving dehype-radio up for the foreseeable future.Thanks for dropping by. I hope you like the new site.

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Big flap throughout RadioLand. CBS Radio (formerly Infinity, formerly CBS Radio, formerly Infinity, etc., etc.) sacks about 115 people around the country from its 179 stations, including stations it's already trying to sell, in some "smaller" markets.The way many radio guys were screaming about CBS's dastardly deed last week--out-launching a big One Percent of its workforce, including mid-top

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Google's been working on it for a while -- first they revolutionized advertising on the Web, tried to break into print, which didn't go so well -- not that time, anyway. Then they bought dMarc Broadcasting, which was in the process of Webifying radio advertising sales. Others are working on it, like SoftwaveRadio, but not with the Google war chest behind them. Now the blogger jungle telegraph is

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I watched a replay of Scientific American Frontiers last night on PBS -- its "Future Car" episode. Something a GM engineer said to Alan Alda triggered something in my mind.The engineer spoke of designing the car around the new technology, rather than taking the familiar car design and trying to fit the technology into it. The result -- the Autonomy "skateboard."The technology environment of radio

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"This doesn't feel good anymore. Let's buy back our stock!" Cool, say the broker-boys, we'll take our cut on the downside, too!Well, never mind, you still know how to get that quick spurt in the AQH, dontcha? You know, ARBITRON? Those really, really clever guys who figured out how to slice 'n dice a thousand diaries into at least forty-seven demographic slivers and get you your big 3.0 in M 25-34

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The other night I forgot to switch my clock radio to "sleep." I woke up at three or so in the morning just as Peter Newman introduced Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. I was awake and alert for the next hour.The piece was the Airborne Symphony, written during World War II by Marc Blitzstein, and first performed in 1946. It's a vocal work that dramatizes the birth and development of

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Any teen with a Webcam can now do TV. It’s a multimedia world. How long before some steel-tower radio guy figures out how easily he could turn himself into a TV broadcaster—feeding computers, IPods, cellphones. Some radio stations have been screwing cameras to control room walls and feeding their morning shows to cable for years and years. Imagine—parity with TV. Hey. It’s no goofier

DAVE NEWTONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14266605793504741624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14548500.post-1147811352364091502006-05-16T13:27:00.000-07:002006-05-16T13:29:12.376-07:00

Radio PDs blow off MySpace. (Reuters via News.com)

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The US commercial radio industry and its dominatrix, Arbitron--plus a couple of unknowns--struggle on, trying to invent the belt-mounted radio-sensitive spy-pod, hoping to revolutionize the way agencies decide to spend billions of dollars of advertisers' profits on stations that run eight radio commercials in a row. Meanwhile, a few ad buyers are scheming with ebay on a TV ad auction. And, of

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"The device is an extension of the subscriber's personality, a 21st-century Swiss Army knife, if you will," Farren said. "Wireless is the only medium that goes where you go."-- A cell-phone industry spokesman, quotedin the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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If you think your radio station's on the cutting edge, check this out. BBC Radio One lives in the virtual world.

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New York disc jockey fired for threatening bodily harm to rival deejay's family on the air. . . . Radio station free gas promotions snarl traffic (Video at eleven!). . . . Senate mulls higher indecency fines for broadcasters. . . . Clear Channel President expects $99 HD radio "in 12 to 18 months. . . . "But hey...new research says people are perfectly happy with steel-tower radio....

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Ran into a guy on the bus yesterday; second time we've met. Windbreaker, Nikes, big glasses, shoulder bag, unhip baseball cap, single earphone in right ear. "This is the first time I've allowed myself to appear in public with an earphone in my ear," he said, right at the top of the conversation. "But I wanted to listen to National Public Radio." He reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a

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If the US Congress passes legislation, up for a vote next Tuesday (05/09/06), ATT, Comcast, or other major telephone carriers could decide which Web sites you can see fastest, or at all, based on how much the Web publisher pays them. The issue is called "net neutrality," meaning nobody can make anybody "more equal" than anybody else on the Internet. Please read up on the issue, then get to your

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Three news items involving CBS Radio this week, two of them breaking today, dramatize the Big Radio Guys' approach to the new media revolution.1) CBS announced that the programming of its "Modern Rock" KROQ, Los Angeles, will now be heard on two of its "FreeFM" talk stations' HD subchannels, San Diego and Phoenix. Another of those intensely local programming moves that characterize the HD radio

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No news made in Vegas this year. Oh, new NAB president, who tested the waters, suggesting broadcasters get off their asses. At least they laughed on cue. . . . Assorted grousing among TV types on high cost of high-def equipment--how long can we put off buying it (Huh?!)?. . . FCC commissioners making semi-nice. . . good attendance at the "What is the Internet?" panels (I made that up-- disclosure

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Haven't seen one of these outside the HD Radio Alliance site. I'm trying to be positive, here. The link: Engadget.

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There is hope. The audience isn't pouring over to Web radio or satellite. It's a slow leak. You've still got a chance to recapture them. But, if you're counting on HD, and willing to wait for the dynamite HD radio everybody'll want, the leak will dissolve the dike.My three tips:1. Do something local and earthshaking on your signal.2. Get on the cell Smartphone networks.3. Stream everything you

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David Rehr is the new president of NAB. In Vegas yesterday, he delivered a true departure speech--instead of the usual industry self-congratulation keynote, Rehr challenged broadcasting to get with the present, in what Inside Radio called a "kick in the pants" for convention attendees. He succeeded in remaining positive, too. Good trick in today's crumbling electronic environment."For radio,

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Read this. From RadioWorld. Written by a station owner who's discovered that stereo can save AM. Will wonders never cease?

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Ah, spring in Vegas. NAB: A hundred thousand TV and radio guys checking their hair in Hilton lobby-casino mirrors as they trudge through the air-conditioned tunnel to the convention center next door. I'm not there, thank God.What's the buzz on pre-opening Monday? Let's surf the trades: HD Radio angst. Good roundup here from RadioWorld's Paul McLane....Bunch of new markets roll out HD formats (

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I know how much radio guys hate to read anything that doesn't fit on a three-by-five card, and I know how hard you work to remain clueless on new media, not to mention the world, but you gotta read this fascinating article from the NY Times Magazine about Google and China. You'll know all the words, I promise.

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It's gotta be difficult to come up with topics for radio research company Web sites these days, when nothing particularly earthshaking is happening in the industry. If you've got nothing important to do, or just need a laugh, read Sean Ross's dead serious "When Contest Winners Will Not Scream," over on edisonresearch.com.

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InsideRadio.com's all about Jeff Smulyan's Wall Street conference call today. Just in case you think it's easy projecting optimism in a creaking, yet moneymaking, industry. But, then, if you work in US radio, or got dumped by it recently, you know.

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Don't tell me you're already doing it. See my last post. This is Number 4 in the Think-through, because I've been tinkering with how to re-juice steel-tower radio in the personal-digital media era. There's always been a considerable percentage of the population who could do better radio than radio guys.Now anybody can produce "broadcast quality" audio and programming content and distribute it for

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