[BC] Google moving away from radio

[SteveOrdinetz]

At 06:20 PM 2/12/2009, Dana  Puopolo wrote:
>I for one knew it was just a matter of time for this one. What's even MORE
>telling is that they plan to shift their focus to streaming radio.
>Broadcast radio might not be dead, but the patient is hardly stirring any
>more.

Leave it to Dana to extrapolate another "radio is dying" thread out 
of a press release that said no such thing.  Google got into a 
business they knew nothing about, and lost money trying to figure it 
out and decided to get out of it.   That's it.  A lot of their 
Adworks spots sounded like they were recorded on a Certron cassette 
with a boombox using the built-in mic.
As far as their automation systems business, I don't think they 
really wanted it to begin with.  They bought Dmarc for the 
distributed audio ads part of the business, Scott Studios & Computer 
Concepts kind of came with the package.
As the article said, it's one thing to diversify your business, but 
it's best to keep it in an arena you're familiar with.  Google knows 
the internet, it only makes sense they concentrate on web-based projects.