GLG News by Media Experts in GLG Member Programs

Total advertising revenues for the radio industry dropped 2.6% from 2006 to $19.6 billion, indicating another bad year for the radio industry. The industry as a whole has not posted gains above $20 billion since 1999. Can anything be done to reverse this trend?

Instead of cramming commercials down the throats of time-shifting viewers, sponsors and networks alike are missing a unique opportunity. Creating on-demand opportunities that don't allow viewers to zap commercials only creates animosity.

The new millenium has brought new technologies and with this we have new viewing audiences who no longer consume via the traditional broadcast television methods which inevitably means the broadcasters and the content owners alike have to find a new way to fund traditional television programming. The...

With the decreasing value of voice through both mobile and landline phones, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile are all entering into a price war that places a decreasing value on voice.  They are also adding data onto their plans, and services such as Sprint TV, in the hopes of getting consumers...

- Viewers have already tasted the commercial free world of television entertainment. The proverbial genie is out of the bottle and you can't put it back in. - There are many viewing alternatives to broadcast television networks, and the viewing public is becoming increasingly more sophisticated at finding...

ABC is taking away exclusive first run rights from its Affiliates... This programming is being handed over to the local cable company and effectively bypassing local broadcasters.   Who needs Affiliates when the local cable company will do..?

Usually when what you hear from consumers in focus groups sounds too good to be true...it is.  In a totally selfish, non-consumer-centric initiative, ABC and Cox have somehow convinced themselves that consumers will go against the grain of what they inherently want - and I suspect the results will...

EA attempts to bring a successful Asian model stateside. Success is almost guaranteed given the penetration of internet play in US homes.

Time/place shifting with web based downloads can retain advertising with available software that streams the ads over a portion of the bottom of the programming [such as thunderstorm warnings on broadcast tv].  Clciks on the ads can still be captured by the advertiser, as long as the viewer still...

With fewer analysts looking at commercial radio, the industry begins to fall off investors' radar screens.