Intelligence Briefs

Key West, Fla., is a locale with a reputation for being weird. Perhaps the only thing "weird" to those in Radio seen across the Independence Day holiday weekend was finding a Classic Rock station's afternoon host and his producer conducting a live remote broadcast, our Editor-in-Chief notes.

In this exclusive commentary, programmer/consultant-turned-licensee Clark Smidt notes that, as Radio celebrates its centennial, it came of age in a similarly problematic pandemic. While much has changed, there's one commonality that very much matters more than a century later.

Fragmentation of the offer and non-linear viewing have accelerated what France-based Glance calls "the profound transformation" of the market. "All actors are rethinking their models," it says. In this context, programs are launched with fiction still at the forefront. In fact, older entertainment formats are still very attractive to viewers.

The information from Nielsen, which is mulling a takeover bid while shopping around for a better offer, offered the data in its first-ever "State of Play" report, which highlights the increasing boom of video content in both linear and streaming in recent years.

New Jersey Broadcasters Association President/CEO Paul Rotella sounded the alarm to New Jersey broadcasters on the performance royalty battle. Instead of a siren or...

"Our work in traditional media has seen its challenges," notes broadcast leadership expert Kelly Orchard. "The recent bankruptcies of two of the largest radio broadcasters, as well as mergers, acquisitions, and transitions, are main topics as I continue to engage in conversations with my colleagues. Their opinions are as varied as the size of their radio markets." In this column, Orchard reviews "the good, the bad and the ugly" of the radio industry, while reviewing today's top concerns for smaller markets and, in particular, family owned stations.

One of the goals of due diligence is to avoid unpleasant surprises during the acquisition process.

For the last week of Women’s History Month, Rosemary Ravinal took a deep dive into the reasons why women and men speak differently. "It is a fact that there are gendered ways of communicating which may hold women back from their highest potential," she writes.

That's the title of another research study suggesting that cord-cutting is putting renewed vigor into over-the-air television ahead of ATSC 3.0's voluntary roll-out.

We can’t say that you asked for it, but we’ve always sort of had a hankering for a list of how markets are ranked by Arbitron on the one hand, Nielsen on the other hand, and by Eastlan on yet another hand (not to suggest there mutations are widely present in the broadcast nerd community). And yes, we suspect this list will be of particular interest to the nerdiest of broadcast and research professionals. But we think it’s very interesting.

By John R. Brooks and Erwin G. Krasnow, Esq. Thanks to your taking our advice on putting together a persuasive business plan (see our articles,...

If digital media is forecast to continue to beat the pants off of broadcast radio and TV for years to come, shouldn't Facebook and YouTube fork over some money to content producers like ... radio and TV stations? It's an interesting concept and one that's getting serious play in Australia. RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam Jacobson shares his thoughts on the concept of "retransmission fee agreements" of the social kind in this exclusive commentary.