WSJ: book review of "Getting It Wrong". Debunking the myth of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds. "As Mr. Campbell tells it, newspapers spawned the myth by splashing scare headlines over thin stories. Radio was becoming a real competitor for news coverage, and the papers had a vested interest in smearing the new medium as irresponsible and sensationalist."
WSJ: New online-ad formats coming. "Interactive video ads". (Subscription required). Shakes- "virtual remotes".
Forbes: Ryan Seacrest. "Dick [Clark] once said to me, 'If everyone who watches you on TV thinks that they can do your job, you're doing your job perfectly.'"
WSJ: Ford's Mulally on the "connected car". "We want to follow all the apps that are being developed, and then you just get that right into the car".
WSJ: NPR's Schiller on how radio can thrive in the digital age. "Once there is internet in the car, people will be listening ideally to the same stations in the car if the individual station in your community has mad itself completely relevant to you".
NY Press: Glenn Beck-Clown in Context. "All these props, like, "We got a special phone here in studio. We're waiting for the president to call!" It comes directly from, "We have a phone here in the studio, and we're gonna call up Hooters!" It's pranks, it's jokes. The red phone is a prank, like "Where are ya, Mr. Obama?" Standard Top-40 radio was like, "Here's one song, here's the next song." What the zoo did, which Beck helped pioneer, was say: "No, we're gonna give you a party; we're gonna give you bells and whistles." He basically lost all shame in the Top-40 zoo world. He's not afraid of being embarrassed. He's willing to look like an idiot. And that's priceless".
NY Times 4-25-2010 “We’ve squeezed every drop that there is to squeeze,” Mr. Azoff replies, using “we” to refer to artists and managers. “We’ve probably squeezed too much. But we’re not going backward,” and here the “we” switches to Live Nation Entertainment, “so with this merger we’re going to form new businesses through e-commerce so we don’t have to go to artists and say ‘We want to take back some ground.’ ”
Chicago Sun Times: Debt Schemes need crackdown. "The radio commercials are tempting -- telling you they can negotiate with your credit-card issuer so you'll pay as little as 40 percent of what you owe".
Gerson Lehman: The reality behind the numbers. The advice that is informing the opinion of big-money investors when it comes to radio.
Media Post: Who is your station's social media voice? "The truth is, having a Facebook or Twitter account does not mean you know how to use it for marketing purposes. In "old school" terms, this is like saying that a subscription to the Sunday paper makes you an expert in media buying".
WSJ Magazine: Pandora's Radio Head. "What makes music so powerful is that it can reconnect you to parts of your personality, parts of your history. We’re looking for things that make our life less ordinary".
NY Times: "Americans are not just getting by with less. They are also doing more". Shakes- Old Think: Sales Promotions. New Think: Target Consumer Experiences.
NY TImes: PPM is changing things. "The television industry had switched from diary entries to metered ratings in 1987 and had seen similarly surprising changes".
