Music Business Times Radio-TV-Video News Feed Informer http://feed.informer.com/images/fd.gif http://feed.informer.com/ http://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/152OVH0JFX.html Respective post owners and feed distributors http://feed.informer.com/ For more than 70 years, royalty payments for air time have flowed to the songwriters and music publishers but not to the musicians or record companies. Now there is a renewed drive to revisit that arrangement, and in recent weeks the volume of the discussion has increased several decibels. For the radio industry, that has meant taking the battle to a place it knows: the airwaves. Over a recent 10-day period, a 60-second advertisement distributed... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/business/media/08royalty.html?scp=3&sq=newberry&st=Search Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/business/media/08royalty.html?scp=3&sq=newberry&st=Search? Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:45 GMT The IFPI has published a new report outlining the record labels' investment in music talent, which it says now reaches around $5 billion a year. That $5 billion includes A+R development and marketing, and represents around 30% of sales revenue. John Kennedy, chairman and chief executive of IFPI, said in a briefing at its London HQ that the recorded music industry invested a greater proportion in research and development than virtually all other industries. Record companies invest an estimated 16% of sales revenue in A+R work, and the report states that one in four artists on label rosters were signed in the last 12 months... http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ib047da6a5b38efffc89731cb4b34f80b Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ib047da6a5b38efffc89731cb4b34f80b? Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:41 GMT In November an anonymous user uploaded a new song to YouTube by Los Tucanes de Tijuana, one of Mexico's most popular bands. The song, 'El Mas Bravo de los Bravos' ('The Most Vicious of the Vicious'), heralds the exploits of Raydel Rosalío Lopez Uriarte, better known as El Muletas, or Crutches, a suspected hit man and trafficker high up in the ranks of the Tijuana drug cartel who... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/arts/music/07narcocorrido.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/arts/music/07narcocorrido.html?partner=rss&emc=rss? Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:20 GMT Jelli is a web-based game that lets listeners search a catalog of songs and vote for what they want to hear. Other players vote songs up or down to decide what will actually air next. By playing listeners accumulate Rockets and Bombs they can use to propel a song quickly toward the top of a playlist, or knock it off completely. When a song is actually playing on the air, listeners can also vote whether it Rocks or Sucks. If enough players think it Sucks, the song is taken off the air instantly, even if it's mid-song. It is a fun, raucous and engaging experience unlike anything else in radio. Triton Media is the... http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jelli-and-triton-media-launch-crowdsourced-radio-into-national-syndication-87101242.html Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jelli-and-triton-media-launch-crowdsourced-radio-into-national-syndication-87101242.html? Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:14 GMT Warner Music Group has joined EMI in licensing its music video catalog to the French-based Dailymotion online video service. The deal covers the U.S., Europe and Africa, allowing Dailymotion users to view Warner videos on-demand, which includes music videos, concert performances and artist interviews, as well as create and share their customized video playlists. Dailymotion is an ad-supported service. Similar to Warner's video licensing deals with YouTube, the label will control all ad sales and will display all... http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i03c40ae9485aa74d28e4696190827b13 Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i03c40ae9485aa74d28e4696190827b13? Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:24 GMT You don't need any special audio gear for this project--aside from a mic, if you plan to say anything (song introductions, station identifications, or whatever). What you do need is a handful of different apps: one to play your music files, one to turn the audio feed into a streamable source, and one to act as a server for sharing your stream with the world. You have plenty of options to choose from in all of the above categories, and each app has its own merits. In this tutorial, we'll use Winamp to play the music, Edcast (the Winamp plug-in, not the stand-alone version) to turn it into a stream, and Icecast2 to serve it up. The Edcast/Icecast2 pairing is unusually easy to configure for different types of radio servers and audio formats... http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=56666 Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=56666? Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:07 GMT For most of its 10 years, it has been on the verge of death, struggling to find investors and battling record labels over royalties. Had Pandora died, it would have joined myriad music start-ups in the tech company graveyard, like SpiralFrog and the original Napster. Instead, with a successful iPhone app fueling interest, Pandora is attracting attention from investment bankers who think it could go public... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/technology/08pandora.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/technology/08pandora.html?partner=rss&emc=rss? Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:44 GMT As of roughly 6 p.m. ET on March 3, all Twitter, Facebook and MySpace followers of individual American Idol contestants were sent the same message: 'Thanks so much for following me/joining my Fan Page! All my updates from now on will be on our Official American Idol 9 Contestant Page, please become a fan there to read all my updates throughout the season... http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/03/04/american-idol-consolidates-contestants-twitter-facebook-accounts/ Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/03/04/american-idol-consolidates-contestants-twitter-facebook-accounts/? Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:41 GMT Slacker and The Source Magazine have announced The Source Digital Radio, a free Hip-Hop station programmed by the tastemakers at The Source and powered by Slacker Personal Radio available on The Source's new website. The Source Digital Radio offers a definitive Hip-Hop collection ranging from industry icons to groundbreaking newcomers and is available today on mobile phones, in-home devices and on the web through Slacker Radio. The Source Digital Radio consists of handpicked songs representing two decades of influential Hip-Hop music as well as current breaking tracks. The new station is a musical counterpart to The Source's print magazine and online presence. It plays music from classic artists such as Run-D.M.C., today's hit makers including Lil' Wayne and Jay-Z, as well music from 'Unsigned Hype,' a roundup from The Source editors of the best unsigned artists... http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thesourcecom-and-slacker-radio-launch-the-source-digital-radio-86340147.html Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thesourcecom-and-slacker-radio-launch-the-source-digital-radio-86340147.html? Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:43 GMT BMW and RadioTime have unveiled a feature for the compact Mini automobile that pulls in web and terrestrial radio stations over an iPhone’s 3G connection, making BMW 'the first car manufacturer to offer this capability in a production car.' It's a bit of a kluge — steering-wheel-mounted controls send commands over a USB cable to an iPhone, which then changes the channel on RadioTime's internet radio service... http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/03/bmw-and-radiotime-unveil-first-in-car-web-radio-for-the-mini/ Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/03/bmw-and-radiotime-unveil-first-in-car-web-radio-for-the-mini/? Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:41 GMT Van Toffler, President of MTV Networks Music Group, has announced a strategic partnership with OurStage. MTV Networks - home of some of the biggest music brands including MTV, CMT, VH1, and OurStage, an online community-powered new music discovery site, will align to develop a broad array of promotional initiatives for emerging talent. The two companies will seek out and promote new artists and personalities bubbling up on OurStage's voting platform, drawing from a wide variety of genres and showcasing performers across the multiple screens of MTV Networks' Music Group... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mtv-networks-music-group-and-ourstage-partner-to-bring-emerging-artists-music-to-the-masses-2010-03-04?reflink=MW_news_stmp Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mtv-networks-music-group-and-ourstage-partner-to-bring-emerging-artists-music-to-the-masses-2010-03-04?reflink=MW_news_stmp? Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:39 GMT The Rock Band Network Music Store is open for business. The initiative from MTV games and its 'Rock Band' developer subsidiary Harmonix - unveiled last July - allows artists to submit their music as downloadable add-on content to the music game franchise without going through a formal licensing process. They simply hire freelance developers to create the game files, submit the songs to a peer review process for quality assurance, choose the price at which to sell them, and give MTV a 70% cut of all sales... http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ifc6418268b866f76f18231f454b7cf8a Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ifc6418268b866f76f18231f454b7cf8a? Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:35 GMT SoundExchange says not only are the figures wildly off the mark, her organization (the only possible source for numbers like this) was never even contacted by Billboard. SoundExchange is the music industry body that collects and distributes digital performance royalties to copyright owners and performers from, among other sources, non-interactive webcasters (i.e. Internet radio). Contrary to the statement that only 10 artists earned more than $2,000 for their play on Internet radio, Williams revealed, 'In fact, more than a thousand artists received more than $2,000 from SoundExchange for non-interactive webcasting only... http://textpattern.kurthanson.com/articles/898/rain-33-sx-says-theyve-paid-far-more-to-artists-for-streaming-than-billboard-reports Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://textpattern.kurthanson.com/articles/898/rain-33-sx-says-theyve-paid-far-more-to-artists-for-streaming-than-billboard-reports? Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:06 GMT The seemingly-endless battle over terrestrial performance royalties for recordings continued today in Washington, DC. As usual, the typical combatants are facing off, including the RIAA and NAB (National Association of Broadcasters). And once again, the topic du jour was the Performance Rights Act. The musicFirst Coalition - whose membership includes the RIAA, A2IM, and the American Federation of Musicians - held a morning press conference on Capitol Hill to reinvigorate its performance-focused campaign. The push is coming from an expanded coalition that now includes the NAACP. 'Being paid fairly for your labor is one... http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/030210performance Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/030210performance? Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:13 GMT TiVo subscribers will be able to pull Internet content, music and movies onto their televisions more easily with new devices the digital-video recorder company announced Tuesday. Called TiVo Premiere, the boxes boast Web-connected capabilities similar to what rival manufacturers, such as Boxee and Roku, have unveiled. TiVo hopes the devices will help the pioneering DVR company shore up a slipping subscriber base by catching up with how digital-era consumers increasingly seek out entertainment... http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/02/tivo.premiere/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29 Delicious/mbtimes/raticker http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/02/tivo.premiere/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29? Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:05 GMT