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RAIN Summit Atlanta
By Holland Cooke
Radio Consultant
ATLANTA — At 6:00 am Tuesday here, it was raining cats and dogs. By 6:00 pm, RAIN Summit attendees heard how cats and dogs embody the difference between on-air radio and online radio. Radio And Internet News publisher Kurt Hanson – a lifelong cat person who recently adopted a dog – explained, in pet terms, how the medias’ business models differ:
RAIN Summit: “It’s Complicated”
By Holland Cooke
Radio Consultant
ORLANDO — The NAB/RAB Radio Show kicks off today; but several hundred attendees got here a day early to spend yesterday talking about non-AM/FM “radio,” at Kurt Hanson’s RAIN (Radio And Internet News) Summit.
Even just a few years ago, streaming was a novelty, an adjunct to on-air programming. Not now.
- Smartphones have replaced alarm clocks, watches, cameras, calculators, appointment books, TV Guide, GPS…shall I continue? There is an app for that. Heck, iPhone obsoleted its predecessor iPod, and (imagine someone awakening from a 10-year coma hearing this?) we now get our music from our phones. So, without even confronting data about mushrooming streaming audio consumption, broadcasters are undeniably in be-there-or-be-square territory.
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