A Question Heard at Canadian Music Week: “Is Local Radio Going the Way of the CD?”
My answer to that question would be an unqualified “no” and we can talk about that at a later date. However, the question was posed at CMW this week. From FYI Music:
Early bird delegates filled conference rooms, the foyer and the Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel lobby bar Wednesday. The soup du jour this year is ‘connectivity’. It’s a burgeoning multi-billion dollar industry that has car manufacturers and technology firms seeing green. The prospect of up-selling a continent of consumers on a battery of in-dash gadgetry is likely to drown spy agencies in data, and immerse grid-locked commuters in a wonderland of info-entertainment features and options.It’s a brave new world that leaves traditional broadcasters gob-smacked, scared to death or indifferent to the meteorite that is about to crater an industry that has enjoyed unimpeded growth since Signal Hill became something more than an historic citadel.
