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Is Terrestrial Radio Dead?

No.
Oh! Not substantial enough an answer for you?
Okay.
Absolutely not.
Alright, I’ll explain.
Terrestrial Radio is, without a doubt, suffering from an identity crisis. iPods, Satellite Radio, Online Radio, Pandora, Last.FM, et.al. are all conspiring to make the original Radio obsolete. Good luck. Won’t happen for a long, long time, and here’s why:
1. It’s in virtually [...]

Radio Layoffs and Firings

If you have any professional contact with the Radio industry these days, you’re probably hearing about layoffs and rumors of layoffs. Not that someone losing their radio job is something new, but two factors are currently causing many in the business to bite their nails and wonder about their professional future. 2009 is going to [...]

Listening to Radio on an iPod

The Radio industry believes the iPod is a serious competitor. As iPods of every size and shape fly off the shelves of Apple retail stores, Radio sees listeners opting for non-RF choices, and that is worrying. The industry is responding by making its content available on the iPod and iPhone, trying to get a foot [...]

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 [...]