Webinar video on US Electronic Program Guide now available for download

I posted a blog on Wednesday previewing the HD Radio Electronic Program Guide that took place that afternoon. The technology that is emerging from this project is going to make radio more durable in the long run. As a listener I like the prospect of being able to view program listings to see what is
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Let’s make it happen

“Let’s make it happen.” How often do we engage in the exchange of ideas and hear a senior level person or executive say this in response to a suggestion we make? More times than not, you are left wondering, “Did we just make a decision to really do this, or what?” As a strategist and
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Spin a social media web for a soft landing

With all this talk of doom and gloom there is a bright spot in the US, and perhaps global economy. The social web. By adapting existing marketing and public relations strategies to include social media, your company can stay in the forefront and on the minds of spend-weary consumers. Here are four areas businesses need
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HD Electronic Program Guide Technology Being Designed to Enhance Radio’s Offering

Television program schedules are a pretty essential interface for many of us. We want to know what programs are on the horizon, and tap into technologies like DVR and TIVO to ensure we can view what we want, when we want. In fact, we are so driven by our television program schedules that providers have
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Privacy and Growing Up Digital

There is fundamental thing I hear over and over when it comes to people going online and using social networks – and that is the concern over privacy. I am not one to dismiss the concerns over identify theft, Internet scams that rob people of their money, or pirates, hackers and malicious individuals who break
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Social media DOES spur accountability

Here comes a bit of a mea culpa (and an overdue one at that). Back in July of last year I wrote a blog post that fed off a couple of stories circling the Internet. One was about a man who claimed to have photographed a rare Tiger in China, which was proven to be
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Is TV driving social media’s success? Or is social media driving out TV?

A colleague of mine forwarded an article by Mike Bloxham from the MEDIA Post blog, entitled “At a TV Screen Near you: Facebook and Twitter”. In this article, Bloxham refers to social media as having a “benignly parasitical relationship with TV” and that this relationship was somehow benefiting social networking sites. This irks me a
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