Premiere Network’s Rush Limbaugh is still the most important talk personality in U.S. radio, according to the annual Talkers Heavy Hundred compiled by the talk radio business magazine Talkers.
Sean Hannity, also from Premiere Networks, stays as the runner-up in the list, while Dave Ramsey is up from number six to number three. Glenn Beck (Premiere) follows in fourth place and Michael Savage (Cumulus) is number five.
SBS Radio will launch a new rock station in Denmark. My Rock will be broadcast in more than half of Denmark, with transmitters in Copenhagen, Odense, Vejle, Esbjerg and Aarhus.
“There is currently no rock station in Denmark, but in Sweden a similar radio station has had great success. Our new station will focus on modern rock music and will have a young profile, so we’re sure that My Rock will find an audience” says Jim Receveur, managing director of SBS Radio in Denmark, in a press release.
The market-leading Slovakian radio station Rádio Expres has been bought by Germany’s Bauer Media Group from Emmis.
Rádio Expres is the market leader in Slovakia since 2005, has a market share of 20% and 1.5 million listeners per week. The station uses a hot adult contemporary music format. The current owner is U.S. radio company Emmis.
In the race to exploit new digital opportunities, Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker describes three “consumer Internet ‘white spaces’ yet to be re-imagined.” Two of them are the “ear” and the car. And she describes the latter as “largely untapped.” “Untapped” no more. Consider today’s automotive news headlines: General Motors Co. is expected to announce today a […]
RTL Group, Europe’s largest commercial radio and television group, increased its revenue by 4% to €6.0 billion in 2012. The revenue is the largest yet for the company. Earnings were down 4.9% to €1.078 billion. 2012 is the third consecutive[…..]
Mike Agovino is COO of Triton Digital, the company at the leading edge of audio’s digital transformation and monetization. The digital audio space is changing fast, as is its relationship to advertisers. And nobody is closer to the action than Triton. So what’s new? And what does that mean for broadcasters in particular? This is […]
When we talk about online radio, it’s easy to view that as a trivial component in the average station’s strategy because, for any given station, the number of folks listening to that station’s stream is, while growing, comparatively small. But that’s viewing the world through the broadcaster’s microscope. What does it look like through the […]
Based on stats released by Facebook last year, only about 16% of Facebook fans receive the posts of the pages they “like.” This is Facebook’s effort to maintain the “quality” of the feed whether or not a consumer has opted-in to connect to it. While Facebook continues to send lots of traffic to lots of […]
It was my first visit to the Sundance Channel, and I was met with this visual: Not so much a “pop up” per se as in invitation to deepen a relationship which was at least strong enough to bring me to the page in the first place (and it didn’t “pop” during my second visit). […]
Commodities are the sad sacks of marketing. And brandSTOKE today has a great post on how to tell if your product – even your radio product – is a commodity. Do you emphasize price in your marketing? In the radio context, do you argue that radio is great because it’s “free”? Do you emphasize convenience? […]
