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Wow<\/span><\/strong> – National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) head and former US Senator Gordon Smith told the NAB members at the NAB\/RAB adio show in Chicago<\/a> last week that they should slow down on that streaming thing.\u00a0\u00a0 I guess he thinks radio managers can’t run a radio station and streaming at the same time.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Back around 1960, the same type of advice was given to AM radio station owners not to get distracted by that “FM Thing”.<\/p>\n “Real” Radio boycotting streaming is not going to slow down Pandora\u00a0 and Sirius\/XM, Stitcher, and the other things that don’t even exist yet\u00a0 – it just creates a vacuum.\u00a0\u00a0 Consumers are “finished” with mindless programming squeezed in around the 15-25 minutes per hour of commercials.\u00a0\u00a0 Radio should understand how TV no longer exists in its traditional business model – radio is next.<\/p>\n iHeartRadio’s big concert to really launch the iHeartRadio streaming app is this weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m betting that Clear Channel is going to hit this one out of the park, and leave the rest of radio in the dust.\u00a0\u00a0 Chairman Smith was sending the wrong message at exactly the wrong time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/www.radioink.com\/article.asp?id=2286169&spid=24698 Wow – National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) head and former US Senator Gordon Smith told the NAB members at the NAB\/RAB adio show in Chicago last week that they should slow down on that streaming thing.\u00a0\u00a0 I guess he … Continue reading