Radio Looks Good to Newspaper
I've been seeing a lot of coverage about Newspapers getting into streaming audio lately.
I guess if you're a Newspaper, even Radio looks like a better option...
Reach & Phrequency: Will Music Sooth The Savage Newspaper Marketplace?
Hoping to capitalize on their familiarity with the local cultural scene, the Philadelphia Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer are launching a site devoted to local music-- phrequency.com, which will offer music downloads and video along with reviews, event listings, and user comments. According to Philadelphia Media Holdings, which owns both papers, the Web site will exist independently of Philly.com, the papers' main Web portal...
more...Labels: Duh, Industry, Media, Radio, Streaming, Trendwatch, Webcasting
Why HD Radio (Still) Doesn't Matter
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From the article...
It streams EVERY station on the planet, or so it seems. I'm talking about every station I've ever listened to. It has stations I've picked up while listening at night as a kid. It picks up the stations I listened to commuting in New York and New Jersey and in Pittsburgh. It even has the station I used to listen to to find out whether or not my school would be closed due to snow. In the age of Pandora and last.fm and iTunes, terrestrial radio has taken a back seat. But for me, as someone who has always enjoyed the thrill of the hunt - picking up a distant AM station at night -- this brings me back to my childhood. And it brings me to places I can't be -- like to my favorite afternoon drive DJ in Pittsburgh. I almost forgot ... the stations that use RDS (Radio Data) will show what's playing and who's on the air when you search for the station. ...only $5.99.
Click to read the entire article.Labels: HD Radio, Industry, Internet, iPods, Radio, Streaming, Trendwatch, Webcasting
Baltimore Coffin Nails
In another great leap foward toward making WiMax Radios a realistic and sustainable product, Baltimore adds a city-covering WiMax signal with help from Sprint.
This means any radio station in Baltimore that invested money on HD Radio conversion basically pissed away dollars. Why would the public buy an HD Radio to get only a few stations who converted (and then simply repeat their existing programming) when an entire internet full of audio awaits them?
Just one more coffin nail, my friends.Labels: HD Radio, Industry, Radio, Streaming, Webcasting
Radio: Your Last(.fm) Choice for Music
Time to Bring Back Payola?
The BusinessWeek article "Radio Royalty Wars Heat Up Again" is good, but the reader comments are more interesting. Opinions are all over the place and many of them aren't based on any seeming logical explanation. One guy says to make Terrestrial Radio pay the additional royalties for streaming, but then goes on to berate Radio for adding more commercials per hour.
Um... exactly HOW do you think Radio is going to pay for those additional royalties??
If the RIAA wants to come back and double-dip on fees (I think a few of the commenters seem to think Radio is agetting a 'free ride' -- they're not.) Radio already pays royalty and licensing fees. These hearings have come about because the recording industry feels they should get additional fees if the station is streaming (the exact same broadcast!) over the internet.
I think one solution that these hearings need to consider is allowing Radio to charge the recording industry to play their music. I know in the past this has been outlawed by Payola rulings, but if the RIAA wants Radio to pay them for featuring their product, then Radio ought to have the same chance to profit from the recording industry. I think Payola laws were originally instituted to make sure the public had a fair chance to hear music from record labels that didn't have deep enough pockets to bribe a disc jockey to play their records. This was back when only a few radio stations were on the air and there were really no other ways to learn about new artists. With a plethora of other stations now on the air, the advent of internet radio, satellite radio, iTunes, indie music sites like GarageBand.com, and a myriad of ways to share music peer-to-peer -- the old reasons for outlawing Payola would seem to have gone the way of the dinosaur.
Grocery stores leverage shelf space and display location to receive better rates and discounts from their supliers -- why can't Radio be allowed to do the same?Labels: Fees, Industry, Rants, Record Labels, Streaming
Hi-Jacking Delivery Trucks
Seen this?
i.Beat cebrax RS
Integrated RadioStation™: music played on your MP3 player can be transferred wirelessly to any radio in the vicinity - whether in your car, at home or during sports activities.
Playable file formats: MP3, WMA, WAV.
Not only does the broadcast industry need to worry about people using their OWN iPods and MP3 players to replace traditional broadcasting, they now need to concern themselves over users "hi-jacking" their programming delivery vehicles -- the radio itself!
This threat is to Radio what VCR and DVD players were to Television. Control over personal, on-demand, programming. Radio's only intelligent strategic response should be to create compelling content -- but we both know that won't happen.
They're too busy coming up with lame new names for lame old marketing (Audio Anchored Advertising? Really??)Labels: Industry, iPods, Radio, Streaming
N is for Nokia and Net Radio
SymbianOne.com has posted a review of Nokia's new N95 device that features an internet radio application. As their YouTube recording (embedded below) illustrates, this bit of software is quick and simple to use.
Just how long do you think it will take for this utility to be adopted by other mobile companies? Since the net radio application is built from an open source solution, professionals and hobbyists alike from around the globe will be developing the versions (and hacks if neccesary) needed to get it running on a myriad of other mobile devices (whether the manufacturers want them to or not.) How long before you can buy a net radio-hacked Verizon or iTouch phone on eBay?
ZombieRadio thinks you just might have time to finish this article and watch the video clip.
Labels: Internet, Mobile, Radio, Streaming
Artist Radio Stations - Part 2
Sammy Hagar launches Cabo Wabo Radio.
Hagar, along with radio veterans Woody Nelson and Shadoe Stevens, begin webcasting their online station New Year's Eve from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Cabo Wabo Radio will feature "high energy" and classic rock. Hagar's calling it "Rock Radio the Way God Intended It." Who knew God was such a big fan of streaming audio?
No word yet on if they'll have to pay themselves the additional performance royalty charges currently being pushed upon other webcasters.Labels: Artists, Duh, Industry, Internet, Streaming, Trendwatch, Webcasting
Give 'til it Hurts
The battles over raised streaming fees begins as Chicago radio station 9FM bans free CD giveaways with the stated reason being "In the face of the RIAA’s struggles, it just doesn’t seem fair for us to be giving away CDs (for free) to music fans fully capable of paying for the music themselves."
The station began airing PSA style mentions encouraging listeners to voice their concerns over the latest ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board to raise streaming fees, and offered to 'buy back' any CDs the station had given away by trading it for a t-shirt.
You can read the entire press release here.Labels: Fees, Profits, Streaming
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