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December 21, 2003
Reaching out to Richard Neer
After reading Richard's book, "fm: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio" and knowing what I wanted to accomplish with pulverRadio, I realized that I would have been remiss if I didn't reach out and ask Richard for his input for how he would approach Rock Radio on the Internet in 2004 and beyond.
Hopefully I will hear back from Richard sometime soon as I continue the process of the formal re-launch of my radio station.
I still believe in Internet Radio and believe that it holds the potential to do for radio what the advent of FM did to AM radio when the FCC forced owners to leverage their radio assets back in the late 1960s.
Done properly and taking the RIAA into account, the space is still wide open for the kind of disruption that I had expected since 1995 with the advent of Progressive Networks but for the most part have not yet seen or heard.
The key to all of this is to find a sustainable business model that supports an internet-only radio property. Done properly I have to believe that there is now a chance to get there, now that many more Americans are living in Broadband enabled homes and more importantly, many more people worldwide are living in or will be living with broadband in the very near future.
Posted by jeff on December 21, 2003 11:05 AM | Permalink
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