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All Access To Discontinue 8/15
- Thread starter TheBigA
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Sad to see it go. Joel was a great guy who I had the pleasure of corresponding with over the decades, and I've always enjoyed Perry Michael Simon's takes on how talk radio could become something useful if...
Yes, this seems to be a sad day for Radio News info sites, this is Radio & Records and FMQB all over again, but at least FMQB lives on thought it's new name "Dean Media Solutions" or DMS for short.
at least Radio Insight is still working and Lance Venta is making sure he breaks some big radio news on there.
at least Radio Insight is still working and Lance Venta is making sure he breaks some big radio news on there.
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This is sad. I don't subscribe to NERW or to RadioInsight because I live far away and have an interest in US radio, but not an economic interest in US radio (i.e. I don't work in it and I'm not looking for work in it). If I was an industry person, I'd be subscribed to both because they provide useful information and insight into the market.
The UK radio news site, Radio Today, is fairly boring. It's a much quieter industry with fewer players and nowhere near as many format flips or ownership changes, so a lot of the space is taken up with bland "person moves from one management job to another" press release stuff.
I wonder what Jerry Del Colliano will have to say about this. He always bags the trade press for not telling the whole story.
No need to spend on marketing when you've acquired all your competitors and operate as a monopoly/oligopoly.
There may be fewer record labels, but they are still in competition. And they can't control their artists anymore.
Now where will the sample hours go? RadioInsight?
Forgot about the song charts, songs played on a station boards, and the add boards.
I’ll miss the columns, especially Perry Michael Simon & Sam Weaver.
I will miss it too but in the last year or two they went down the rabbit hole of reporting every little minutia of record company news that i bet alot of radio people knew nothing about or cared about.
I've been there since almost the beginning, reading the site at first and then joining in late 96 or early 97. Loved the columns, the "10 questions with" interviews, and of course it was the "go to" for the latest radio news. I drifted away after leaving the business 4 years ago, but still checked in from time to time. Sad to see it go. But 28 years is a helluva run for a website, especially one focused on an industry that has gone through seismic changes/shrinkage over most of that time.
That was always the case as I recall, same with Radio and Records, I agree, I don't have a lot of interest in the comings and goings at the labels but it is what it is
But if that's where your advertising revenue comes from, you report it.
Perhaps the labels didn't care about all the radio news. So they stopped advertising.
Interesting to me that Billboard, which has a similar business model, has doubled down on music industry news.
Having been in multiple other industries and witnessed dramatic cuts in trade advertising, regardless of boom or bust cycles, this is hardly surprising. There comes a point that kind of expenditure just isn’t worth it. Frankly, I completely supported those cuts in expenses back then. Still would make the same arguments today.
We've been talking for a while about the lack of new releases in CHR, adding more gold to CHR and Hot AC, and the slowdown of the chart in all music. Those things are bad for business. Both radio & records are built on new music, and it's ground to a halt.
It goes back to what I say about radio: Multiple revenue streams. Don't get too dependent on one thing.
Yeah, FMQB was really cool back in the day -- thick, glossy paper, high quality printing, and all this cool news about adds and what's hot, plus features where MDs from different stations would talk about new tracks and which would work, which might not work in their area. And the monthly CDs of hot newer tracks. The website replacement is definitely different.
Would any of this reflect on how labels may view radio in general?
Good question. As labels have more and more newer generation people on their staff, the perception of radio's importance is gradually minimized.
Some of us remember how there was a group of car buyers well into the 80's who wanted manual transmissions because "that's how I learned to drive" and "they work better" and so on. Today, unless you are buying a Porsche 911 or the like, you are not going to want to do stop and go commuting with a stick.
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