All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Media

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...

- 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...

OMG – Oh My Gosh.  I am waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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..?

Reduced levels of house building Reduced provision of affordable housing Increased public borrowings Loss of innovation and growth in new housing products.

I like the EU’s view of the fine; they called it a large parking ticket. I am wavering between believing the EU or it being the typical anti-American sentiment.

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...

The article points to a business model that does not create value, and hence appears to not be sustainable.