Former Major Label Chief Al Teller On Radio, The Death Of The Old Music Industry & The Future

Al Teller ran CBS, Columbia and MCA Records, but in this interview with Ian Rogers on This Week In Music, he shares a visionary view of where the music industry is headed. It starts as a history lesson, but things get interesting around 17:30. Topics include how (sadly) mass-saturation radio play is still the most powerful way to connect with fans, and at 20:45 Rogers asks: “It seems that the music industry always relies on entities that don’t actually care about the future of music (Wal-Mart, iTunes)… Do you share that view?”.  WATCH THE VIDEO: