Category Archives: The Music of Radio

A few ratings tidbits

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Fred Stiening

For the most part, I ignore radio ratings from month to month as I don’t trust them and think Arbitron (now Nielsen) bears a significant part of the responsibility of the decline of radio, getting people in radio chasing the … Continue reading →

Posted in Greater Media, Music Radio, Radio Biz, The Music of Radio | 2 Comments

Radio Uber

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Fred Stiening

So when people ride using Uber, what happens with the “radio”? What are the rules? For about the past 3 years, I don’t even turn on the radio in my own car, so when riding Uber, asking the driver to … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Streaming, The Music of Radio | 4 Comments

Chocolate Jazz

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Fred Stiening

So if you missed the Jammin’ Pig Concert, you have another chance for Ribs and Jazz in Nashville on July 25th.  I spotted this event on the Fisk University student radio web site. http://musicfestival.city/nashville One of the recent “polls” asked … Continue reading →

Posted in The Music of Radio, Totally random stuff | 6 Comments

Apple Juice

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Next month, people “in the know” say that Apple will be launching a new music streaming service to compete with Pandora and Spotify. The iTunes “buy and download a track at a time” model totally disrupted the buy a physical … Continue reading →

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The lost decade

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The years 2000-2009 have an identity problem. In addition to having a lot of unpleasant history, nobody can figure out what to call the decade. The Zeros? The Naughts? Variety music likes to group music by the decades – the … Continue reading →

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