The evidence of silence on this blog means only one thing: I've been busy. On what some will ask. Well, what I feel is the rudimentary next step in internet/terrestrial broadcasting. Over the last month I've launched Bump Radio Networks and testing what I call "Social Internet Radio". This means radio… Continue

For those of us in the industry, the answer to that question is "Yes, and then some." But a series of recent earnings reports and research papers demonstrate that both the question and the answers are significantly more complex.

by Tim Siglin
July 28, 2009

We've all heard that traditional revenues in the media and entertainment space have been slipping, with the music industry held up as the primary example. Yet, for… Continue

After the last post, I dug a little deeper into the current issues and challenges affecting not only minority broadcasters but, the entire radio industry as a whole. Although there are a multitude of causalities in Black Radio's decline, it boils down to this...

Why is Black Radio declining? Simply, it fails to focus on adding value. In its current shape once you separate out all the noise, there's no value added where it can compete with emerging competition from consumer product technologies.… Continue

As Tod Sacerdoti explains, national broadcasters are confused as to what business they're really in. Most tend to focus on the content but, that's not what they're selling. This also parallels radio as, it generates more almost all of its revenue from selling radio advertisements and is clearly in the radio-advertising business. M… Continue