AI’s Rise … and Impact on Broadcast and Production

"Reduce bit rates, but maintain visual quality; apply precise subtitles, but broadcast in real time; create highlight content, but transmit it immediately after the main event." According to Futuresource, these and many more headaches can be alleviated by the rise of AI.

Abacast and Citadel pair up, create a network

Last month Abacast and Citadel announced a partnership that more than an average streaming provider agreement. Yes, Citadel stations will begin

Traffic and Rev Mgmt Systems: Part 3: Contextual advertising

The Traffic Directors' Guild of America (TDGA) has asked radio and television traffic personnel nationwide to submit questions and issues for providers in the...
FCC

Where To Go To Avoid FCC Forfeitures

Why should you pay $600 for what you can get for free? Ken Benner shows you how you can save money, and avoid FCC fines

From Discovery to Purchase: The Role of Community Commerce

What is the role social communities play in influencing purchase decisions? WARC, in partnership with TikTok and Publicis Groupe, came together for a just-released study that helps answer that question. Their work outlines what they say is "the huge potential for brands to engage with audiences and increase unplanned purchases by narrowing the funnel between product discovery and purchase."

Boomers getting set to downshift into new lifestyles

The Baby Boom will continue to have a profound effect on every aspect of American life due to the massive population of the demographic...

How To Put The Spring Back Into Employees’ Steps

Are your employees happy? If not, this column could provide managers with some good ideas on turning that frown around
Michael Nathanson

Green Lights and Yellow Flags: An Analyst’s First Look At Roku

A highly regarded Wall Street financial analyst has initiated coverage on Roku, following a deep dive into a hot arena: the connected TV/advertising video-on-demand (AVOD) opportunity. While he's "very optimistic about future industry growth," this analyst warns of "too many long-term risks" to enthusiastically recommend a buy at this time.

Do We Need The FCC?

There seem to be three reasons why we still have the Commission, says AEI Visiting Fellow Mark Jamison

What’s up with Indecency? Part II

Having covered how we got to the current state of confusion in FCC indecency policy, let’s look at some places where we might take...

After Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Can Radio Win Audience?

For one hour on Wednesday CMO Inc. founder Peter Horst and Jebbit president and co-founder Jonathan Lacoste made some predictions and "bold claims" in the wake of a marketing and advertising world controversy surrounding Facebook, third-party data use, and dollar allocation from brand managers. Our Editor-in-Chief tuned out halfway through, upon realizing that, in his view, ads on Instragram are a complete waste of money and that radio was a much better ROI delivery vehicle. Do you agree? Read on.

Broadcasters and Notice Ads

Several state broadcast associations have made forays into law changes that would permit a more flexible and robust method of publishing notice ads. Our proposed model in Maine called for a centralized statewide website run by an independent third party, with rates deeply discounted from print-ad rates (no overhead or circulation costs, remember) to save some of the taxpayers’ hard-earned, and with a daily “snapshot” of site content delivered to the state archives as proof of publication. It also called for a widespread, ongoing mass media campaign (think radio and TV ads) to create awareness and drive people to the website. Unfortunately, despite support from our Governor, the idea ran up against the press juggernaut and was ultimately unsuccessful.

Part 1: Traffic & Revenue Mgmt Systems: Improving the logistics of reporting

In today's Traffic and Revenue Management System Intel Brief, The Traffic Directors' Guild of America (TDGA) has asked
Gordon Hastings

Print-broadcast journalism collaboration

Five years ago I attended a media think tank hosted by the management of the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. The guest speaker was Bill Keller who was then the executive editor of the New York Times, a position from which he stepped down in 2011 to return to becoming a full time writer for the Times. The eruption of the financial crisis facing many papers across the nation was gaining full force at the time of Keller’s talk. The Boston Globe, which was then owned by the Times (Now owned by a group of Red Sox principals) was in particular financial stress as was the case at the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times and many smaller newspapers throughout the country. Draconian cutbacks were taking place in newspaper newsrooms, and those cutbacks and closings continue today. During the Q&A following Keller’s talk I asked if he felt a possible solution to maintaining strong print editorial departments was collaboration with television stations and local cable news channels in the local marketplace. Would the sharing of personnel allow for a bolstering of local news coverage and investigative reporting in both mediums?

So, About The Fight For FM In iPhones

The NAB on Tuesday said it's sending 10,000 battery-operated radios to Puerto Rico for distribution to those impacted by Hurricane Maria. It is being paid for by "multiple U.S. broadcasters," the NAB and the National Alliance of State Broadcasters Associations (NASBA). The move reiterates the importance of AM and FM radio in the time of emergencies. It also deflects from the deafening silence of some of the radio industry's biggest players on the push for FM chips in iPhones.