Last week I was spending some very inspiring days at Stream08 in Athens. Stream is a worldwide gathering of industry leaders and entrepreneurs from media, technology and finance in a resort in Greece. WPP the largest marketing communications agency in the world hosts this ‘unconference’.
On the agenda were the challenges of the current economic [...]
Categories: Commercial, Digital, Internet, Legal, Management, Music, Ownership, Strategy
Tagged: advertising income, recession, stream08
Here’s a little local story. I spent a LARGE chunk of my working life, just under 20 years, working for BRMB, the first commercial station in Birmingham, in the UK. I joined them 35 years ago, pre-launch, as a baby rock jock, and left as Head of Music and Research, having done pretty much everything [...]
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I’ve written about these satellite radio micro-channels before here and here and I hate to sound like a broken record, but I will.
Investing in creative, compelling programming pays off.
Sirius just announced that Coldplay will take over one of their channels (Alt Nation) for ten days beginning Friday, June 13th. The launch of the channel, Coldplay [...]
Categories: Commercial, Digital, Internet, Localism, Music, Podcasting, Production, Programming, Satellite Radio, Strategy
Tagged: Alt Nation, Coldplay Nation, Programming, radio, Sirius
Take a look at the Richard Park feature in today’s Guardian. Richard Park (non-UK readers check here for the bio) is now heading up Global, the largest group by far in the UK. And he’s talking a lot of of sense, to my ears at least. Bottom line? Indie Group management should stop whining about [...]
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I may be a bit slow, but I still haven’t fully processed what’s happening to Virgin Radio. So they’ve been bought by an Indian media conglomerate. Fine. So they’re dropping the name. Sure – I get it.
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But the new bosses appear to be – bloggers? Not only that – [...]
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Tagged: blogging