Headline »

RADIO CASHES IN ON LOVE

June 23, 2011 – 2:01 pm No Comment

MatchLink is a singles dating network that served the radio industry for many years. The Evanston, Illinois company Spark Network Services provided an IVR-based dating service to radio stations. Radio listeners called a phone number and paid to interact with other singles through a sophisticated voice mail system. Payment was made through credit card or a 900 number. Some stations were earning a half million dollars per year with the service.

Read the full story »
Featured
Featured
Featured
Featured
Featured
Home » Archive by Tags

Articles tagged with: bob glasco

Health Care for your Radio Station

December 18, 2009 – 11:21 am | No Comment
Health Care for your Radio Station

Our country is in the midst of a volatile debate over health care. With the introduction of the meter, Radio’s actual TSL health has been exposed and it is not good.
Top of mind awareness did …

Wasted Talent

December 3, 2009 – 11:04 am | No Comment
Wasted Talent

What is “talent?” If you look it up you’ll find words like “aptitude,” “flair,” “gift,” “bent,” “ability,” “genius” and more.
We can all give examples of talent. People like Garth Brooks, all four Beatles, both Manning …

Radio Revenue Renewed: Meter Madness

November 4, 2009 – 7:33 am | No Comment
Radio Revenue Renewed: Meter Madness

Arbitron diary tactics were fun, but didn’t mean much.
Remember the games played with time checks? “If we advance the time, we’ll get credit for another quarter hour.”
Or how about, “Write this down, you’re listening to …

What business is the radio business?

October 6, 2009 – 7:15 am | No Comment
What business is the radio business?

We’ve all heard the term, “the business” when someone refers to being in radio. I wonder, though, how many of us have ever stopped to think about what, “business” we’re really in.
I’m sure each …

The Business

June 30, 2009 – 6:58 am | No Comment
The Business

By Bob Glasco
If the Bible were being written in these times, and there was a chapter on radio, it would be filled with the same verbiage used in the book of Exodus to describe the …