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
Wunderadio iPhone App
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
All The Cool Kids Are Doing It...
 Urban Outfitters has starting carrying a starter podcasting kit, and it's being overtly pitched as a sexy teen tech toy. With Radio stations completely out of touch with the needs and wants of the modern listening audience (young and old alike), how long before AARP offers these setups in their monthly magazine? From the promotional text...
Pump up your very own volume!
If you've ever wanted to have your own radio show or make custom, personalized broadcasts, podcasting is a great way to start and ION Audio has the perfect solution to help make you the star! U CAST is the best way to make your own podcasts for internet posting.
Anything is possible with U CAST; you can host your own talk show, mix sounds and music like a radio DJ, or be a movie critic heard by millions around the world.
U CAST gives you everything you need: a professional-grade USB microphone, headphones, sound editing software and an easy way to deliver your Podcast to the masses. Your podcast can be downloaded and played on computers and portable music devices everywhere. It's time to be heard! Add in a free domain name and a year of hosting with auto-upload features and Radio has a whole new crew of competitors who can create and broadcast content they (and their peers) really want to hear and share. Those 500+ friends on their MySpace and Facebook pages just became a micro-audience more devoted and accurately tracked than any terrestrial station could hope for. The new Arbitron books are out -- do you know where your audience is? Probably at UrbanOutfitters.com buying a podcast kit for $120. PSSST... You can buy it cheaper at Amazon.com (only $97.00 !)
Labels: Consumer Generated, Industry, Internet, Webcasting
Is Online Radio Killing Traditional Radio Advertising?
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
What if every artist had their own radio station?
Rapper JA RULE is webcasting his own internet radio station from his home in New York. The Always On Time hitmaker, real name Jeffrey Atkins, fronts the ambitious new venture and hosts a weekly hip-hop show every Friday from 10-2.
"I got an Internet radio station, 187FM.com. It's a vehicle for new artists to get on and get their music heard worldwide. Internet radio is good because it doesn't pigeonhole you to just your region. You can be heard everywhere."
The hip-hop star launched the network in March (07) and he's delighted with his first months as a radio mogul. He says, "It's the best because we're not censored, and you can log in from anywhere and hear my station. "As technology is going forward... if you go on the iPhone, you can go to a website that has audio... It's becoming easier. "It's even easier than satellite radio because we're not making you pay for it."
"I think internet radio scares them all."
ZombieRadio says: What if EVERY artist has their own radio station?
What if they released their hot new single via their own webcast rather than fighting for airtime on local stations across the country? You could hear the song and buy with a single click.
If you follow Ja Rule's line of thinking, their stations could even help with the breakthrough of new artists.
I agree with Ja Rule -- internet radio should be scary as hell to traditional broadcasters.Labels: Artists, Internet, Radio, Satellite, Trendwatch, Webcasting
Will User Outcry Result in User Payout?
BusinessWeek offered up decent coverage of how the new web streaming fees will negatively impact the majority of internet broadcasters, but far more interesting were the reader comments.
Many express outrage at the new fees, but not one of them (to-date) said they would be willing to toss in their share of the new fees -- not even for the heavily supported (at least in word if not deed) indie-casters. In ZombieRadio's opinion it is the smaller web streamers who might very well stand the best chance of surviving this last salvo from the RIAA pickpockets.
The new licensing fees are based on individual plays of songs to individual listeners. While this could very well be a nightmare for large webcasters, (does ClearChannel pad its online listeners in order to reap more advertiser cost-per-point or do they bury actual counts in order to decrease their licensing fees?) the smaller webcasters are dealing with tens or maybe hundreds of listeners versus the thousands and thousands of "Big Media."
The indie users also tend to be the most passionate about their products, thus it may not be a hardship for the smaller webcaster to basically put out the proverbial tip jar and ask their listeners to support their online stations not just through word of mouth -- but through word of wallet as well.
Based on the newly released 2007 fees, each play of an individual song to an individual listener is charged at $0.0011 -- this means that if an online station played 16 songs per hour (which is what the Radio And Internet Newsletter is using in their own industry average calculations) it would cost a user $0.0176 to listen for an hour.
For ease of payment and collection, let's say listeners can only opt to purchase 24-hour blocks of consecutive listening time. This means a station listener could pay their own way for only $0.4224/day.
A webcaster charging their listeners $0.50/day would not only cover the new licensing fees, but make a $0.0776 profit -- and that's only if the entire 24-hour block is being used.
If a listener purchased 24-hours but only actually listened for 10 hours ($0.176 in licensing fees) the webcaster's profit would be $0.324 -- not bad considering there is only fractional mark-up in our proposed subscription structure.
A fifty-cent daily listener fee is less money than someone would feed into a jukebox (most jukeboxes start at $1 for only 2 or 3 songs) and the listener receives an average of 384 song performances.
NOW... will the fans of these threatened webcasters step-up and toss a few coins into the hat to keep them alive, online, and on the air -- or will there only be bitching, bashing, and gnashing of teeth?
Make no mistake
I am NOT a fan of the CRB or the RIAA, but neither am I a fan of those who complain about the situation and do nothing to help. This is an opportunity for the public to show their disdain for corporate radio clones and support programming they say they value -- for mere pennies each time they use the product.Labels: Fees, Profits, Webcasting
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