Larry Rosin of Edison Research has this to say on his blog about the new music discovery market and radio: “Our tracking data shows that over the course of the last 13 years ‘Radio’ has been supplanted by ‘Internet’ as the source Americans turn to first to learn about new music.” It certainly has, as […]
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On the day after New Year’s: free advice for radio
Happy New Year Radio Survivor readers. Good luck in writing your first check with “2013” instead of “2012.” Advice columns for radio are showing up on my RSS reader, and I thought I’d share some of the wisdom. Edison Research has a fun post titled “Radio’s Bad Ideas That Won’t Die.” Here’s the entry on […]
Internet radio usage way up, driven by smartphone rush
Edison Media reports a big surge in Internet radio listening. And mind you, it’s not just the boring old predictable annual uptick in Internet radio listening that we’ve all become accustomed to hearing about. This uptick is serious, Edison insists. The weekly usage of online terrestrial radio streams and Pandora “pure play” has jumped from […]