Inside Music MediaJerry Del Colliano

Daily, we hear about the usual solutions to the radio industry's problems.

Cutting expenses.

Staying positive (or as I call it, drinking the Kool-Aid).

Waiting for the economic downturn to end.

Unfortunately, you never hear the word innovate as it pertains to radio.

Of course, I am speaking of the people who control the business. The CEOs, their lemmings and the industry lobby and trade groups that they prop up.

You may not know that when Cumulus shut down its interactive department, John Dickey moved like lightning to squash innovation. He wasn't the only group executive to do so. That's how&hellip