3-10-12
In his blog today Mark Ramsey took a swipe at Radio Ink for coverage of Pandora this week under the headline "Time to Trash Pandora?" Ramsey didn't like the following line in our report, and tried to argue against it. "Pandora CEO Joseph Kennedy stepped up his assault on radio yesterday as he detailed some of his sales and ratings plans, hoping to take a chunk of radio?s $17.4 billion revenue pie."
Ramsey says, "Just for the record, that?s not an ?assault on radio? since any party with an advertising-based medium has as much opportunity to invite the dollars of advertisers as any other. Those are not ?radio?s? dollars, they are advertisers? dollars and they will be spent on the media that do their best to earn them." That may be true, however, we haven't heard of any other company touting their "assault on radio" as loud and clear as Pandora. SEE NEXT 2 ARTICLES
The fact is Kennedy has been saying in every quarterly conference call that Pandora is coming after radio's listeners, coming after radio's revenue and redefining the radio business. Call it whatever you like, and judge for yourself about what Pandora is attempting to do. Link to the Ramsey rebuttal blog HERE
(3/9/2012 3:49:27 PM)
Radio Ink reminds me of Star Magazine or National Enquirer... it's like the trash gossip of the radio world- as if radio needs to cheapen itself even more. Sad.
(3/9/2012 8:05:04 AM)
I think that Eric is in bed with Bob Struble. Was Eric given iBiquity stock-options by Struble, or was Eric allowed to buy a bunch of iBiquity's penny-stock? Everything Radio Ink revolves around promoting HD Radio, one way or the other.
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