Polarizing the Receiver Marketplace
This dichotomy affects the landscape in which these types of services currently try to...
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This dichotomy affects the landscape in which these types of services currently try to...
Last time we discussed how radio is assuming the “fast food” position among competitive...
Time was when radio stations were the only audio restaurants in town, and they...
An example of this phenomenon is evidenced in the music world by the movement...
The recently concluded 2008 CES convention showed that IBOC continues to make small but...
You’ve probably heard a lot about Net Neutrality, and may have wondered what it...
Perhaps the link may seem tenuous, but radio has always been a timekeeper of...
The arbitrary boundary of the calendar year provides us with an almost obligatory opportunity...
At a recent conference presentation on the future of the music industry, a fellow...
Although these are not the heady days of the dot.com boom, the number of...
Sometime in the fourth or fifth grade I first heard the elephant joke that...
The battle over performance royalties for U.S. broadcasts of music recordings continues to rage,...
You may recall in the last issue that we considered the technical complexity of...
Time was, all it took to provide a broadcast service was a transmitter and...
We conclude our examination of the remaining unknowns of IBOC with a look at...
One point that came as a surprise to some was the question of whether...
When the FCC issued its Second Report & Order on digital radio in May,...
Nearly from its origin, radio has coexisted with other media that competed with its...
Show of hands: Who can remember the launch of the CD format?
One of the primary concerns over surround-sound radio broadcasting has been the lack of...
The new Webcasting royalty rates scheduled to go into effect on July 15 are...
Last time we discussed some of the changes in the digital music industry that...
In case you haven’t noticed, there have been a number of groundbreaking moves in...
It’s been a long time coming, but the FCC’s recent approval of (almost) final...
First, recall that there has been plenty of posturing lately on Digital Rights Management...
The wisdom of Solomon will be required in deciding whether to allow XM and...
As we approach the annual media pilgrimage to the American desert known as NAB2007,...
A recent Radio World editorial (Jan. 17) lamented the absence to date of portable...
Comedian Steven Wright has a routine in which he asks listeners to recall the...
You've no doubt heard the familiar refrain “Content is king,” which has become a...
You've probably seen an increasing number of references to “Web 2.0” recently, and there's...
At CES 2007, the NRSC is expected to consider the report from its Surround...
A year that began with the retirement of NAB head and Washington fixture Eddie...
A while back I took my wife to a funky little dance club in...
Anyone from the radio business who’s been to a dance club lately may have...
I should have known it was going to be a surprisingly radio-centric AES show...
The promise of a broadband wireless Internet future has been hyped for several years,...
Our anonymous colleague Guy Wire raised some eyebrows recently when he suggested that terrestrial...
Although the common wisdom among consumer electronics manufacturers holds that tired old analog radio...
You may recall that way back in the June 8, 2005 issue of RW,...
Chris Anderson's seminal article "The Long Tail" in the October 2004 issue of Wired...
There's a Fine Line Between Streaming and Downloads. New Devices Are Erasing That Line