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Listeners Jump The Track, Broadcasters Lean In - February 6, 2020
Media dynamics are typically defined by numbers from afar. For radio broadcasters, audience estimates support or refute working narratives with totals, comparisons, percentages and trends. For those supported by the media buyers this is life-blood. Dynamics within the studios can be different.

Stability Might Be Welcome But It Doesn't Move Anything Forward - January 31, 2020
For those toiling in the media sphere there is enduring fear of digital disruption. For radio broadcasters this does not mean the continued encroachment by digital platforms like DAB. It is much more. Radio listeners - and particularly the young people advertisers need to survive - are steadily migrating to online and mobile platforms. Where better to find the days’ perfect playlist or podcast? For radio broadcasters a day of stability is welcome relief.

Platform Diving Meets Reality, Not A Splash - November 21, 2019
Platforms matter more and more for radio broadcasting. Listeners arrive on many paths, now including streaming and podcasts. The basics, however, cannot be ignored. Listeners like surprises, except when they don’t, and will not accept being neglected. Once they turn away, they won’t come back.

Listeners Pause As The Sound Fills Every Space - October 24, 2019
Digital platforms aren’t just a big deal, they are the only deal. Consumers across the globe, largely, have embraced the hardware powering the transaction of ones and zeros toward infinity. Fast, clever and attractive, they have become faster, much more clever and ever more attractive. And everything in the great digital supply chain has traversed from expensive, thus the enduring appearance of luxury, to cheap, even the content driving it. Digital culture has become the surrounding culture; the sound is everywhere.

It’s A Whole Digital World… Ad People Rejoice - August 1, 2019
There should be no doubt. The digital revolution keeps marching on. Every part of the media sphere has joined the parade with drums and bugles. The advertising people are cheering. Even newer technologies coming. The disruption will be profound.

Listeners Flee The Turmoil, Broadcasters Flee The Heat - July 23, 2019
Radio broadcasters, by and large, are the domaine of their listeners. Without people tuning-in, figuratively if no longer literally, radio becomes like the proverbial tree in the forest. If nobody hears it, it isn't there.

Traditional Strategies Bend As Millennials Flee - May 16, 2019
Radio is but another medium brought to change as its listeners adopt new ways of using it. Look what happened to newspapers; Google News. Look what happened to television; Netflix. Consumers of audio product - once known as listeners - like streaming, podcasts and having what they want when they want it. Nothing gets in the way of change.


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