 Haley in RAB keynote: Radio's future lies across multiple platforms ·Feb 13, 12:39 PM by Paul Maloney “Let’s agree here and now that our goal will be to have radio on every mobile phone, PDA, and MP3 player in the next five years,” Haley There was a significant “visual” element to Haley speech. He demonstrated the RAB’s streaming channel on his laptop, an Internet radio table top unit from Asus, an FM tuner iPod add-on, and the FM receiver in the Microsoft Zune (left). In an enthusiastic embrace of “new media,” Haley equated the more than 300 million wireless and hand-held devices (phones, MP3 players) in consumers’ pockets now with a potential $3 billion annual windfall should these devices be radio-enabled. That’s on top of the close to $2 billion he predicts for “off-air revenue” by 2010 generated by online streaming.
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In his keynote yesterday at the RAB2008 conference in Atlanta, 
said. “On-air, online, on-site, and on-demand, Radio must be anywhere and everywhere there is a speaker or headphones.” 
“We no longer distribute our content on a single channel. We’ve become multi-channel distributors,” explained. “Radio provides easy and personal consumer interaction through numerous audience touch points and on a variety of platforms.”
The headline of a mobile strategy was exciting yet I knew I probably shouldn’t read the story as I would probably hear about receivers in phones instead of a sound 3G/wi-fi/max IP radio platform strategy. I knew I shouldn’t have read it.
— John F. Schaab · Feb 13, 01:28 PM · #