Arnon Mishkin, Partner, Mitchell Madison Group

Why Steve Jobs Could Be a Savior for Media Companies

October 23, 2009 at 12:01 am PT

One of the most effective television ads for a media company was one that WINS, an all-news radio station in New York, ran several decades ago. It asked viewers if they knew how to set the [preset] “buttons” on their car radio, and then explained, “You pull out the middle button…tune to 1010 WINS…and then push the button all the way in.” In those days, all car radios had the same mechanical preset system. And since hardly anyone had ever read that part of the auto manual, a large number followed the advice in the ad.

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