….live from New Mexico World HQ…
…one of my best friends and one of the great radio and programming minds in our biz packs his Beltway bags and heads back to DFW….Bruce Gilbert takes the reins of KRLD-AM/FM programming starting August 16th…let the fireworks begin as Bruce takes on not one, but two, former employers….The Great Jill-Bear programmed the Ticket and was GM of ESPN Radio in Bristol…wife Amy and their son Hudson (The Tank!) come back to Dallas (Amy worked for me at ESPN Radio/ABC Radio Nets) just in time for some of the infamous August heat…welcome back brother…
…tell me it ain’t so…what group head reduced his smaller markets from continuous measurement from Arbitron down to two books and then made sure it was the best two books….Spring and WINTER! Seriously? This guy actually runs a group…and a big one? Thankfully he has smart market managers who convinced him to get at least the Spring and FALL books….ham-stringing markets in tough times by taking away trends and such is no way to run a railroad…or a radio group…
…automobile advertising has long been a mainstay revenue generator for US radio….but now comes word that Chinese company Zhejiang Geely, a public company in China has purchased Volvo. No-one blinked when Ford bought Volvo a few years back, but the concept of what is effectively a Swedish brand being owned by the Chinese is stretching a few brain cells. Coming hot on the heels of the purchase of the British MG marquee by SAIC (Chinese government controlled) and Jaguar and Land Rover by India’s Tata, it’s clear to see that the forces of change are afoot in the automotive industry. Existing automotive brands have saturated their own domestic markets and are now faced with stiff local competition for the massive emerging markets of China and India, and to a lesser extent, Brazil and Russia. Last year China became the largest producer of automobiles and the largest consumer of automobiles simultaneously. How does this effect US automakers and their ad budget?...worth watching for sure.
….from Gizmag.com…With Apple selling three million iPads in just 80 days it’s no surprise that some companies are after a slice of the tablet pie. According to a report on Bloomberg, Research in Motion Ltd., (RIM), the maker of the BlackBerry, is planning to introduce its own tablet computer this November. The report cites two unnamed sources who say that the device, to be known as the Blackpad, will have roughly the same dimensions as the iPad and will include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth that will allow users to connect to the Internet through their BlackBerry…
…Brett Favre has told the Vikings he won’t return this season…until he returns this season and ESPN does a one hour special on why he wasn’t going to return and then did..Favre has selected Steven Colbert as the moderator of the special called “Farce is Back”….
…really? 20,000,000,000 mark (20 billion for those at home) hit for Twitter Tweets….crazy right?
…interesting goings on at NAB HQ in DC this week….after a confidential conference call for the radio board that same group is called to DC for a meeting….seems Bonneville head man Bruce Reese struck a nerve on the PRA….sad to think that a lame duck congress would do such a dastardly thing…NOT! And congress wonders why their trust rating is down to 10%?!
…I know I’ve promised to have a feed to opt in and out of….you will see an email opting in or out in the next few days and our updated web site will be up and running on Monday the 9th…
…many have asked so here’s the scoop….after 18 months of consulting and helping Radiolicious and AlertFM, partner Peter Doyle and I have parted ways with the Lafayette, LA based company that runs both entities. We wish them well….but now comes word that Radiolicious is abandoning it terrestrial model and going in a different direction….tough space to compete in for sure….Radiolicious and Dial-Global have also mutually cancelled their partnership for ad sales….AlertFM is a terrific system…
….from TechCrunch….Today sees the launch of CardMunch , an iPhone app that lets you take a snapshot of a business card and have it added to your iPhone contacts. The application is $2.99 and comes with 10 credits (it costs one credit per card entered). Beyond that, it costs around 25 cents per card. This isn’t a new idea — we recently wrote about the similar ScanBizCards , and there are plenty of other competitors. The difference here is that CardMunch is actually have humans verify every card that’s submitted through their system — you’re sending each photo you upload to someone on Mechanical Turk, who converts it by hand, not through optical character recognition. Given how important it can be to make sure this contact information is accurate (a wrong digit in a telephone number or email address will render them useless), this could actually prove quite useful. www.techcrunch.com
…what a pleasure to start working with friend Henry Pierse in London on the Tony Cowell project….Tony has complete and unencumbered access to brother Simon...with “X Factor” debuting on the states in Fall 2011 Tony will have the scoop before anyone…email or call me for details or if you have interest…. tj@tjlambert.net or 214-695-7595
Touching base this past week with it seems a million folks wishing happy birthday and getting an update on our goings-on…old friends and new thanks for the wishes….until next week---tjl
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