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FM Radio On the iPod?

Twice a year, Apple CEO and head honcho Steve Jobs gets up in front of a large group of people who ardently follow his company’s operation. The events are the MacWorld Show and Exposition in January and the Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June. The group of attendees to these keynote addresses consists [...]

Thursday

Morning Links:
Data Processing Error Affects Houston PPM Numbers, Briefly – I’m sure this product from Arbitron will be so much better and more accurate than all the others.
DJ admits to faking disease and spending donations – 7 years in the slammer, plus restitution.
Cincy Hispanic Community Not Happy With CC’s WLW – At one time or [...]

Wednesday

Start the day linkage:
Clear Channel cites growth in shorter ads. First "adlets," then "blinks" can "burps" be far behind?
BE Addresses New Trends In HD Radio Adoption. At least somebody’s addressing it. The stores that sell the radios don’t seem to be.
Radio Host revisits the good ol’ days. Who doesn’t want to visit the "good ol’" [...]

Monday Morning

Well, here’s the first day of Radioblogging at Radiofan.com. Some linking to get started.

Brit Presenters bare it to show off their torsos.
120,000 pageviews and counting for Mitt Romney’s on camera, but off-air talk with host Jan Mickelson at WHO in Des Moines. The confict? Romney’s tired of talking about being Mormon. Well, that’s too bad. [...]

What’s to come

The RadioFan blog will cover the radio industry from a Programming perspective, so don’t expect a lot of financial, sales or promotional information, except when it relates to the business of programming a radio station on a day to day basis.
Topics that will be specifically addressed:

Talent
HD Radio
Streaming
Voice Tracking
Employment and Management issues

Stay tuned.

The RadioFan Blog

If you’ve come here, you are undoubtedly a fan of the radio business, or at least several radio stations.
The RadioFan Blog is launching to provide another from-the-inside look at the industry, edited by a currently working radio programming executive. The opinions express here are his (or hers…okay, HIS) and do not in any way represent [...]