Media Oulook: Radio

This is one of a series of U.S. media reviews published in March 1988 looking back to the previous year, and looking forward to the next.

1998 Media Outlook: Radio

Traug Keller ABC Radio Networks

If someone were to come along and invent a medium that could go any-where with you and keep you informed and entertained while you performed your day to day activities like driving and working – wouldn't that be a breakthrough? The medium is already here and it certainly has been rediscovered. Radio racked up some $15billion in station sales in '96 and the numbers are still being tallied for an even more robust '97.

Why all the attention to radio? Wasn't it supposed to be a 'mature' product, nice...

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