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On August 26, 2024, WCBS-AM will no longer exist. Even after writing about media change for more than 15 years, that sentence didn’t seem real as I was typing it. It’s tough to come up with an analogy to fit this situation. A corporation emerging from bankruptcy has killed the nation’s first all-news radio station. … Continued
Many seem to want to write off traditional radio with refrains such as, “Everyone is listening to their iPhones,” or, “I only listen to podcasts.” Yet, a new research study takes an interesting look at in-car consumption with data that begs to differ. Each year, and for the past decade, respected Edison Research has surveyed … Continued
This space is being used to write about the TV business again because what’s going on in that industry is prompting questions in this direction almost every day. At the same time, it brings me back 30 years to the day when I was preparing to move 700 miles South to work full-time in the … Continued
Misinformation. Conspiracy theories. Fear mongering. We experience it every day, most recently in the wake of the harbor accident in Baltimore, and prominently from Infowars’s Alex Jones who suggested terrorism. “Looks deliberate to me,” he wrote according to news reports, “A cyber-attack is probable. WW3 has already started.” It’s nothing new from Jones , who … Continued
It’s the time of the year when communicators are starting to think about plans for 2024. But if you really want to understand the media business, it’s important to look ahead to 2025. The commercial local TV business already is. From what we’re hearing, the large corporations that own the most local stations are forecasting … Continued
In the media business, when the media company itself becomes the focus of news, the corporate suits tend to do what makes the company’s journalist employees’ eyes roll. It’s almost always some version of “we don’t comment on personnel matters.” It rarely follows the fundamentals of effective external or internal communication. But this story is … Continued