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# WSJ Columnist Calls On Music & Broadcast Industries To Evolve.  Says Record Labels “Are Coping The Worst”.
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/wsj_columnist_c/
- Published: 2006-04-27T14:54:20.000Z
- Updated: 2006-04-27T14:54:20.000Z
- Description: In his RAIN online newsletter Kurt Hanson has written a summary of a keynote address at last week’s National Association Of Broadcaster’s convention by Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walt. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2006/04/wsj_columnist_c.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Radio & Satellite, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

In his [RAIN](http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/042706/index.asp?ref=hypebot.com) online newsletter Kurt Hanson has written a summary of a keynote address at last week’s National Association Of Broadcaster’s convention by Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walt Mosseberg. The instructive speech’s bullet points include:

- Media have to evolve when new competitors arrive.
- [![Generic_headphone_computer_2](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/generic_headphone_computer_2.gif "Generic_headphone_computer_2")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/generic%5Fheadphone%5Fcomputer%5F2.gif?ref=hypebot.com)"Internet" won’t be an "activity" in a few years – it will be like the electric grid all around you delivered and used by a multi-tude of devices in almost infinite ways.
- The internet is coming to your car and wide variety of portable devices.
- **Of all industries record companies are coping the worst.** He called most DRM and other restrictions *"absurd".*
- Radio needs to use new tools to beat the iPod. “*Your job is not just to string together a bunch of songs in a row, but to put on exciting new programming to attract new listeners and beat the iPod,”* he told broadcasters.

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