GLG News by Satellite Radio Trend Experts (North America)

The long term market potential for satellite radio is probably 30M-40M subs. The subscriber base will come from the car market, though it is possible content may be syndicated to other platforms (e.g. MediaFLO). Growth will be driven by OEMs, since unlike the retail channels they are less...

The recording industry is lobbying to create a performance royalty on the terrestrial radio industry to provide royalties to artists.  The radio industry is opposing any such action.

E. W. Scripps now has final regulatory approvals to split operations in to two pubic companies, similar to what Belo Corp. did a few months ago.  Will Scripps fare better in their efforts?

The new price point for HD receivers will mean signicantly more volume of units in automotive OEM applications, potentially surpassing one million units installed in OEM applications by early 2009. Unlike Sirius and XM, Ibiqiuty's HD radio is finding an audience in Asia and in Europe. Ibiquity is entering...

Volkswagen recognizes they have to produce in the US to growth the US market share. The same formula has worked for the other German, Japanese, and Korean transplants. Expect the factory to be flexible enough to produce both Volkswagen and Audi products, since they share platform and powertrain components....

Latest annual "Investing in Radio" study by BIA Financial indicates large markets will continue to experience slow to negative growth for next few years while some turnaround is evidenced in smaller and medium markets. What are small and medium markets doing right that the big markets are not doing

A study by Senovate examines ethnic and gender differences regarding social networks, online banking, and visiting YouTube with some interesting findings.

Sears has a fundamental structural problem with its format, market appeal to the consumer and ability to resnate the differences shopping with them represent. The shift to the warehouse channel is a permanent one that greatly impacts those retailers who have in the past lived in the market somewhere...

This article discusses new research indicating rapid growth in viewing online video, and the need for pay TV providers to have a clear strategy.

With the acquisition of CNET, CBS will become one of the lworld's 10 argest Internet companies reaching massive audiences both domestically and globally.