Radio is alive and well

There are those who think that radio is a dying medium with all of the gadgets and methods of getting music and news, but the stats say otherwise.

A few days ago a column ran in this space — “Seismic Shifts Remake the Radio Industry” — written by Paul Goldstein, a consultant for new media companies. While there truly is a seismic shift in perception of broadcast radio and the facts surrounding it, it’s not the one that Goldstein claims, and the facts — and the research — bear that out.