Radio Stations Haven't Cracked The Internet Market
from the wonder-why... dept
For all the talk about how radio stations were learning to embrace the internet, it appears that listeners are telling quite a different story. Now that Arbitron is measuring webcast listeners as well, it turns out that only two of the top twenty webcast radio stations are from actual radio stations. Of course, this should probably be a clue to both the music industry and the radio industry (or should we just say Clear Channel, since they are the radio industry these days?), but it's unlikely they'll get the message. The fact is that people are sick of the same dreadful music being played over and over again and they want something new and better - and neither the big label music industry nor traditional radio seems to be giving it to them. When listeners have a choice, they go elsewhere.
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