Better Days Radio broadcast - Episode 313 (audio links)

This is one of my favorite weekly broadcasts. Doug Lang hosts Better Days on CFRO Radio (Vancouver BC) each Thursday night. Since he’s two time zones away I usually end up listening on Friday morning. It’s always a treat to see what he airs each week - his taste is eclectic but superb. Not only will [...]

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Listen in: Better Days Episode 311

This is one of my favorite weekly broadcasts. Doug Lang hosts Better Days on CFRO Radio (Vancouver BC) each Thursday night. Since he’s two time zones away I usually end up listening on Friday morning. It’s always a treat to see what he airs each week - his taste is eclectic but superb. Not only will [...]

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Radio still plays key role for music industry

http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080119/NEWS/801190332/-1/COMMUNITIES
By Russ Corey

Staff Writer

Despite the growing popularity of the Internet as a means of distributing recorded music, radio still plays a major role in helping listeners discover new artists.Radio is no different from many businesses that are experiencing changes in the digital age, said Brian Rickman, programming director for URBan Radio Group in Tuscumbia.
Rickman said [...]

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Why Things Suck: Radio

http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-02/su_radio
By Brendan I. Koerner 01.18.08 | 6:00 PM

Unless you enjoy hearing the same insipid Fergie song a dozen times a day, chances are you loathe mainstream radio. And for good reason: The FM band between 92.1 and 107.9, where commercial stations reign, is mostly a desert of robo-DJs and pop pabulum.The sad decline of [...]

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SoundExchange’s Motion Sledge-Hammered

http://satelliteradiotechworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/soundexchanged-motion-sledge-hammered.html
Today, Chief Copyright Royalty Judge, James Scott Sledge, Denied SoundExchange’s motion for a rehearing ‘“to reconsider the definition of Gross Revenues set forth at pages 28-31 of the [Initial] Determination; and, in light of recent predictions that approval of the XM/Sirius merger is imminent, reconsider its unwillingness to assess the impact of a merger as [...]

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Bill Seeking Broadcast Performance Royalty Introduced In Congress

http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/archives/broadcast-performance-royalty-bill-seeking-broadcast-performance-royalty-introduced-in-congress.html
In a pre-Christmas surprise that most broadcasters could do without, identical bills were introduced in Congress on Tuesday proposing to impose a performance royalty on the use of sound recordings by terrestrial radio stations.  Currently, broadcasters pay only for the right to use the composition (to ASCAP, BMI and SESAC) and do not pay for [...]

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Proposed Bill Would Force Radio Stations to Pay Record Labels

http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/12/proposed-bill-w.html

By Eliot Van Buskirk December 18, 2007 | 6:57:36 PMCategories: Digital Music News  

MusicFIRST, an organization partially funded by SoundExchange, announced that its lobbying to get Congress to force AM and FM radio stations to pay record labels have paid off handsomely.
Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) joined Representatives Howard Berman (D-California) and [...]

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RIP Mike Hays, founder TwangCast, RealCountry.net

TCB was saddened today to learn of the passing of Mike Hays.
Mike was the founder of RealCountry.net and TwangCast. TwangCast was cyberspace’s revered and ground-breaking internet station created to showcase independent real country music that wasn’t been heard anywhere else at the time. Traditional country artists such as Dale Watson and Heather Myles reached a brand new audience. Countless artists were [...]

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Radio’s Newest Strategy: Play a Hit, Again and Again

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/arts/music/01one.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Henny Ray Abrams/McDonald’s, via Associated Press
By JEFF LEEDS
Published: December 1, 2007
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30 — For the millions of Americans who listened to Top 40 radio last week, it was almost impossible to miss “Apologize,” the string-tinged elegy performed by the modern rock band OneRepublic and remixed by the eclectic producer Timbaland.
WIOQ-FM, a pop station [...]

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Internet Radio Sucks It From SoundExchange

Click here for a wonderful editorial piece on the current internet radio fiasco.

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