In the March 2009 issue of TALKERS magazine, they launched a new feature titled “The Frontier Fifty: A Selection of Outstanding Talk Media Webcasters.” It was an alphabetical list of 50 talk “acts” consisting of a wide variety of hosts, teams and shows representing a cross-section of the important pioneering work taking place in the burgeoning world of internet talk media.
The publication of such an “editorial staff’s choice” in TALKERS magazine marks another evolutionary milestone as, together, we experience the fascinating transition between the AM/FM/VHF/UHF (“terrestrial”) domination of pop culture during the second half of the 20th century and the emerging internet media’s (“stickless”) reign over the first half of the 21st –– already a decade underway.
Click here to see the 2010 list (hosted at Talkers.com)
Click here to read the online version of the accompanying article.
“The Future of Radio” was the topic discussed in what was billed as “An Audience with TALKERS Magazine Publisher Michael Harrison and McVay Media News Talk Specialist Holland Cooke” on March 7 at IBS/2009, the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System’s National College Radio Conference in New York City. In the session, Harrison and Cooke tell a group of young radio broadcasters their view of radio as it is today and where they think it is heading in the emerging world of new media.
