Mark Fratrik participated in the Webinar on Retransmission sponsored by Pike and Fischer’s on September 23, 2008. The following are his remarks.
To fully appreciate the issues related to retransmission consent fees, tying and bundling of cable and satellite delivered channels, it is important to recognize the changing marketplace for the provision of video services. The …

Posted by: Georgina Santilli
MEDIA Access Pro, BIA Financial Network
It was wonderful to see so many familiar and new faces at the NAB Radio show in Austin last week. I always get such pleasure in seeing and meeting so many of you during this event every year.
As most of you know, BIA held its first User …

RBR & TVBR interviewed Tom Buono during BIA’s Annual Cocktail Party at the NAB Radio Show in September. He discusses financing trends and opportunities for radio to take advantage of new multiplatform solutions like video to solicit new types of revenue dollars.

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Posted by: Rick Ducey
Chief Strategy Officer, BIA Financial Network
NAB’s technology advocacy program – NAB FASTROAD – is supporting the development of a prototype Electronic Program Guide (EPG) system for HD Radio™ broadcasting. The prototype’s first element is a web-browser based EPG authoring system, intended for use by stations to create their EPGs. Displayed for the …

Posted by: Tom Buono
President & CEO, BIA Financial Network
Having just returned from the NAB’s Radio Show in Austin, it was clear to me that I was meeting with executives from two separate industries: major market radio owners and small & medium market radio owners.
The published reports on radio’s demise are dominated by the negative …

Posted by: Steve Passwaiter
Add me to the list of folks who have an opinion about Microsoft’s new ad campaign featuring two of the 1990’s biggest business and entertainment icons in Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. The first ad makes Gates out to be Seinfeld and Seinfeld to be Bill Gates. That’s not easy …

Posted by: Rick Ducey
Chief Strategy Officer, BIA Financial Network
Many readers will never get beyond the executive summary, so this is an especially important part of the business plan. Given this, what should you emphasize in your executive summary? This is a very condensed and stylistic expression of your whole business idea. It’s unfair, but …

Posted by: Georgina Santilli
This blog, that blog… I have been hearing that a lot lately at BIA. But what’s all the hype? Why blog?
As someone who is knee-deep in databases all day long and conducting online training sessions, I’ve always considered myself a computer savvy person. So, when my marketing department approached me about posting …