The decade’s most important radio trends

The Radio Survivor blog (“News, views and tough love for radio”) has a series of posts on the decade’s most important radio trends.  Nothing earth-shaking, and a few are strange choices, but interesting to see the amount of change the industry has undergone in the past ten years.  I just passed 40 years in the business last month and the pace of change has certainly accelerated in that time.  --Dennis

Links:

#1 (Paul Riismandel):  The birth and troubled childhood of satellite radio.

#2 (Jennifer Waits):  The growth of internet radio.

#3 (Waits):  iPod and iTunes lure listeners away from terrestrial radio.

#4 (Riismandel): Podcasting.

#5 (Matthew Lasar):  The age of Pandora.

#6 (Riismandel):  HD Radio launches, but who listens, who cares?

#7 (Lasar):  Internet radio’s Day of Silence.

#8 (Lasar):  The Great Fairness Doctrine Panic.

#9 (Riismandel):  The FCC authorizes Low-Power FM.

#10 (Riismandel):  Clear Channel goes private equity.

#11 (Waits):  Cash-strapped schools turn back on college radio.

#12 (Lasar):  National Public Radio keeps growing.

#13 (Waits):  College radio tightens its playlist.

#14 (Lasar):  Pacifica Radio democratizes itself.