http://RadioFan.com A Blog about Radio...Terrestrial, Satellite and HD Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:27:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://RadioFan.com/2009/03/10/is-terrestrial-radio-dead/ 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 ... http://RadioFan.com/2009/01/11/radio-layoffs-and-firings/ The world's largest broadcaster, Clear Channel, has released an application that turns the iPhone into a radio tuner, allowing the user to listen to a growing number of its stations around the country. The iHeartRadio app is fast, sounds great and is free to download on your iPhone or from ... http://RadioFan.com/2008/10/26/the-iphone-a-great-radio/ 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, ... http://RadioFan.com/2008/09/30/listening-to-radio-on-an-ipod/ I'm sure you've heard them. Commercials for "the stations between the stations." If you're not sure exactly what that means, believe me, you're not alone! HD Radio is a new technology that piggybacks a number of digital channels onto the traditional analog signal an AM or FM station produces. Extra channels ... http://RadioFan.com/2008/07/26/hd-radio-not-worth-the-time/ 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 ... http://RadioFan.com/2008/06/15/fm-radio-on-the-ipod/ It's happening more and more these days. You wake up in the morning, expecting to hear your favorite DJ playing some music, talking about the news of the day, cracking jokes, whatever. But he/she's not there. You figure "oh well, must be on vacation," but then you pick up the ... http://RadioFan.com/2008/02/10/oh-no-my-favorite-dj-just-got-fired/ Two of the most often asked questions that come up when someone you've just met finds out you're in radio are: 1. Do you really play my request when I call? 2. Why do you guys play the same songs over and over again? I'll take those questions one at a time. First, ... http://RadioFan.com/2008/01/13/why-wont-they-play-my-request/ You've probably heard them. The commercials touting something called "HD Radio." You may just be getting used to the little "HD" logo in the corner of your local television station, or perhaps you recently bought an HD TV and ordered the HD package from your cable provider. Sitting in your ... http://RadioFan.com/2008/01/09/hd-radio-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-important-to-me/ A "Data Processing" error affects the PPM numbers in Houston for a time when supposedly, some of the data didn't make it to the right place to be tabulated. This is a very, very, bad sign. Sure, all eyes are on Houston, Philadelphia (and soon New York, Chicago and a ... http://RadioFan.com/2007/08/23/the-ppm-struggle/