http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.1 2012-02-11T16:57:55-06:00 http://www.rbr.com/radio/17368.html 2009-09-28T16:26:00-05:00 2009-09-28T16:26:00-05:00 Jack Messmer If there was one recurring theme at last week’s NAB Radio Show in Philadelphia, it was that radio leaders are well outside of the most attractive demos – and getting older. But consolidation and the http://www.rbr.com/radio/17368.html 2009-09-28T22:34:15-05:00 2009-09-28T22:34:15-05:00 Pocket Radio HD Radio - it's getting really old. http://www.rbr.com/radio/17368.html 2009-09-29T04:11:54-05:00 2009-09-29T04:11:54-05:00 Jim Carnegie It is time to get the CEO's off the stage and put them in the audience to learn... Time Not to rethink this Fall NAB but time to pack the bags and move.. http://www.rbr.com/radio/17368.html 2009-09-29T06:47:13-05:00 2009-09-29T06:47:13-05:00 Mark OBrien The day radio started to go down hill was the day the industry was taken over by the 28 year old MBA. If it doesn't fit on a balance sheet it won't work. Radio can't make a decision today without the approval of the kid MBA. What do they teach these people at Harvard anyway? http://www.rbr.com/radio/17368.html 2009-09-29T07:37:50-05:00 2009-09-29T07:37:50-05:00 Rubin Rodriguez Jr. I started as an intern in the late 80's. I'm asked all the time, "How did you get started?". I explain that the mergers and acquisitions killed the new entries in broadcasting and locked out new ownership opportunities. One of our goals at the National Association of Community Broadcasters (NACB) is to assist the new breed of broadcasters. For more info go to NACB.info or info@nacb.info http://www.rbr.com/radio/17368.html 2009-09-29T09:05:54-05:00 2009-09-29T09:05:54-05:00 Gordon HAstings Almost a year ago when Radio Ink kindly presented me with their Lifetime Achievement Award I said to those assembeled, and most of them were on the recent NAB panel, it is time for a new generation of leadership. I refereed back to the new generation of radio leadership of the fifties that literally took over when the older generation stampeded into television. Turned out it was very, very good for radio with new faces like Bill Drake, Schulke, Sklar, Taylor on the programming side and so many others(Rosenfield, Ury, Burden, Luckoff, Kaplan,taking the reins of station management almost by default. "The hits just came on coming!" The truth is many of those bright young people are already at stations throughout the country. Might be a very good idea to tap some of them collectively to see exactly what new ideas could come from such a gathering.See my blog for some interesting thoughts gordonhastings.tumblr.comGordon Hastings, President ghhMANAGEMENT http://www.rbr.com/radio/17368.html 2009-09-29T09:14:57-05:00 2009-09-29T09:14:57-05:00 Jeff Gonsales My take from Philly was that there was very little focus was on selling the benefits of Radio, or any success stories from the field. All the panelists/consultants have something to sell so they all talk about Radio's impending doom to the various digital platforms. There is a reason that Apple put an FM tuner on their new Nano and it is cool! I believe there should be panels made up of top sellers talking about their best sales, clients looking for good ideas, etc. The various vendors looking to sell their services should be in the exhibitors' hall, not trying position their product and services as the answer to revenue woes. http://www.rbr.com/radio/17368.html 2009-09-29T10:51:31-05:00 2009-09-29T10:51:31-05:00 Robert Smith The best and the brightest left Radio programming a long time ago and they won’t be coming back as long as the boring, predictable, homogenized, personality-less, passionless, overly-dependent on questionable research, targeted at audience-measuring technology instead of human emotion, lacking in any local focus programming that those afore-mentioned MBA’s have given us continues to rule the airwaves. The best ideas almost never come with the kind of “proof” that the people who are currently running Radio feel they need before they can act. Creativity and intuition can’t be measured, assigned a numerical value, and plugged into a metric. Explorers have intuition. Inventors have intuition. Great leaders have intuition. MBA’s have numbers. And when those numbers are applied to programming all we get is the same old same old. We need to give listeners a reason to tune in and stay tuned in. That requires creativity, and that requires risk, but all of our current programming research and methodology is focused on trying to eliminate risk and avoid causing tune-OUT. We need to stop trying to measure what listeners THINK they want and start giving them something new they can get passionate about. Oh, and don’t ask creative, motivated people to waste their time with HD stations no one will ever hear. Where’s the job satisfaction in that? http://www.rbr.com/radio/17368.html 2009-09-29T13:43:30-05:00 2009-09-29T13:43:30-05:00 David Aamodt Corporate Radio kicked to the curb far too many good, make that great broadcasters. They're not coming back. They were the ones with "fire in the belly" for the radio industry. You replaced us with bean-counters and and "yes man" broaders. No Balls, No Blue Chip! Radio has turned into a tentative industry run by a bunch of lemmings. As I told the G.M. at the Cum-u-lus station I worked for, "We're in the advertising business, yet we don't practice what we preach! We don't advertise our stations to attract new listeners, or to get regular listeners to listen longer! Cum-u-lus and their ilk would rather be good hypocrites and just tell their sales staff to go out and tell advertisers and potential advertisers they need to advertise to expand their customer base and to get their regular customers to buy more often. As a person who spent over 30-years SUCCESSFULLY in the business, this ain't rocket science. It's common sense! http://www.rbr.com/radio/17368.html 2009-09-29T15:34:50-05:00 2009-09-29T15:34:50-05:00 Gordon Moul As a broker for radio stations I know how old the ownership & management of most radio stations is. We are gray that is the few who still have hair. When a small market station goes on the market the potential buyers are old men or old group owners, Very few new faces that want to own their own broadcasting business and financing today, well that's another comment. The industry would do well to think about a business continuation plan for the whole radio business or one day the last old owner will die with no one to buy the radio station but an investment group looking for cash flow.I really hate that thought. http://www.rbr.com/radio/17368.html 2009-09-30T07:03:31-05:00 2009-09-30T07:03:31-05:00 Bob VanDerheyden Naturally, I take issue with my friend Bill Stakelin's observation that management/owner age is an issue in radio's inability to grow and prosper. It isn't age...it's attitude !!!! If you look like you're 40. If you act like you're 40. If you worklike you're 40. You're 40. Great new ideas filtered through experience lessen errorand accelerate success. Bob VanDerheydenBold Gold Media Group