Radio Industry News Summary August 14

Best of the Day …. Radio-info for going beyond the press releases and Google search for news.

Radio-info (271,751 Monthly Visits says Compete.com) – Leads with two examples of political advertising buys that Tom feels are just the beginnings of a new trend.  Follows with Los Angeles WLIT talent changes, Clear Channel moves, and PPM consequences with market speculation from the LA message boards on Radio-info.com

All Access (123,623 Monthly Visits) – Lead with apologies (press releases) flying all around over Mini Cooper “no urban dictate”.  Reports Apple/Steve Jobs tipped music exec that September 7 meeting has something to do with full-length albums and related materials … original source WSJ AllThingsDigital.

Inside Radio (71,060)  – Leads with Mini Cooper apologies. IR follows with veteran manager information about related market practices.  Link to the details for paid subscribers only.

Radio Ink (66,640) – Leads with Arbitron news (financial press release) about larger cell phone and diary panels.  Follows with Mini Cooper denial of “no urban dictate” with the agency accepting responsibility for mistake not policy.

RBR (29,460) – Leads with Arbitron boosting cell phone panelist.  Follows with details of the Nielsen Company Q2 revenues that they managed to grow operating income on strong TV ratings business.

Inside Music Media (Unknown) – Jerry rants on Cumulus management practices and quotes former employees.

Kurthanson/RAIN (19,395) – Leads with perspective about iPhone and streaming radio.  More on streaming, app store, and royalty agreements.

Hear 2.0 (8,986) – Mark has a short rant on all the hoops listeners must jump to “Listen Here”.  See Jacob’s Blog for related message.

Jacobs Media Blog … Analogy Tiger Woods practicing to radio management teams.  Tiger wins on new courses because he prepares more for the new challenge.  Many radio teams think their years of experience are enough and don’t prepare for new challenges.  Many radio websites show exactly what’s happening or more clearly … not happening.

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RADIO NEWS WEBSITE TRAFFIC up 44% in February

February, 2009, online radio news site traffic was up  44% over last year.  The top 10 radio news sites we summarize from www.compete.com public information had 253,009 unique site visitors, making an average of 3.8 visits/month, clicking 4-pages each visit, and spending 3:12 on average time online. 

A link to the full summary is avaiable at the end of this post and includes www.Radio-info.com www.RadioandRecords.com www.allaccess.com  www.rbr.com www.radioink.com www.RAB.com  www.hear2.com www.Kurthanson.com (RAIN) www.insideradio.com and www.NAB.com

Radio teams know the web brings the fastest, most relevant, and well presented news about the radio industry. 

It’s interesting the most active sites have the most interactive tools.  Message boards, research, multi-media, and tagging/commenting/sharing social tools are found in the leader’s websites.

www.Radio-info.com and www.radioandrecords.com account for 70% of the top-10 time spent online.  Read the details in the free PDF.  No registration required.

Radio teams would do well to look at their own station websites and incorporate interactive/multimedia  tools they appreciate when they read their industry news.  

 

Radio News Website Share of Time Online Feb 2009

FREE PDF DOCUMENT: radio-news-sites-february-2009