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Online music is in danger. After intense lobbying by giant music labels, the Copyright Royalty Board dramatically increased the rates webcasters must pay to stream online music. The severe change could force most independent and noncommercial Internet radio off the Web. Sign the petition to urge Congress to pass the Internet Radio Equality Act.
A radio station in Chicago played The White Stripes new album without their permission. The copy of the album that was played on the radio was a bootleg version and now a version they received from the White Stripes or their record label. Lead singer, Jack White, personally called up the radio station and ripped on the studio and the DJ.
Radio Caracas Television, the station silenced by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, has found a way to continue its daily broadcasts -- on YouTube, the popular video Web site.
By suspending Opie and Anthony, XM has violated its promise to subscribers.
Legislation introduced in the Senate would save Internet radio from a recent royalty hike that threatens to bankrupt the industry. The Internet Radio Equality Act would vacate a Copyright Royalty Board decision to increase fees webcasters pay to play music online by a devastating 300 to 1200 percent.
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NBC and CBS' WFAN radio are looking at NBC News White House correspondent David Gregory as their next Don Imus.
The RIAA's effort to wipe out independent online radio has nothing to do with protecting artists, and everything to do with protecting a status quo that supports a very few top 40 acts at the expense of everyone else. In their effort to protect their outdated business model, they are happy to prevent their artists from reaching potential customers.
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Shock jock Don Imus reportedly plans to sue CBS Radio in an effort to collect the $40 million balance left on his contract, according to Fortune.com. Imus was fired by CBS on April 12 after making racially insensitive remarks about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
Don Imus, the tousled and acerbic radio host whose racial remarks engendered a media storm that triggered a swift upending of his career, is not going away quietly even if the imbroglio has all but disappeared from the national conversation in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre.
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL) have headed the "Internet Radio Equality Act," which aims to stop the controversial March 2 Copyright Royalty Board decision which puts a royalty of .08 cent per song per listener, retroactively from 2006 to 2010 on internet radio.
A bill introduced in Congress Thursday aims to overturn a controversial royalty fee increase that Internet radio advocates say threatens to cripple their services.
Pandora's founder, Tim Westergren, appealed for public support this week in response to the US Copyright Royalty Board's decision for a whopping 140% escalation in internet radio royalty fees. Such news brings back a bitter taste from the days of ubiquitous filesharing and the mixed signals aired by a struggling record industry.
One million hours of television and radio programming provided on-demand via the Web. That's the BBC's plan. The media colossus intends for an archive which will include many of its new and old recordings to be opened to the public if a trial to selected 20,000 UK-based individuals proves successful.
Conservatives fear that Don Imus is the first casualty in a liberal-led media purge to force right-wing talkers off the air.
In a potential blow to Internet radio services, a federal copyright panel on Monday largely upheld a contentious decision that would elevate royalty fees Webcasters must pay to record labels.
Media mogul Sumner Redstone says he's looking to his chief lieutenant, CBS Corp. chief executive Leslie Moonves, to "do the right thing" when it comes to deciding whether to fire Don Imus, the CBS Radio star shock jock now being whipsawed in a storm of racial controversy.
Want to stay safe on the roads? Then avoid listening to Guns N Roses, Meat Loaf and Bruce Springsteen behind the wheel.
The Lincoln lineup will be the first to include the equipment as standard.
Global spending on Internet advertising lags spending on TV, newspapers, magazines and radio but will overtake spending on radio next year, earlier than forecast, according to a new report.
On Monday morning's "Bill Bennett's Morning in America" radio show, Senator John McCain said "There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today," when asked to highlight something positive about what American forces have been able to accomplish in Iraq.
XM Radio now has another headache. In addition to getting skeptical federal regulators to sign off on their merger with Sirius, the satellite radio operator was sued yesterday by a group of music publishers
El Rushbo vs The Terminator. Now that's a blockbuster movie baby. It would appear that Rush Limbaugh cannot count Arnold Schwarzenegger among those who tune into his radio dial show each day.
The US Copyright Office has released their new set of rates for the payment of royalties by Internet Radio, and they ignored all of the facts presented by webcasters and gave the record industry exactly what they asked for: royalty rates so high that they will put and every independent webcaster out of business.
"In support of the innovative use of Internet-based tools in the production of a daily public radio program." If you're not familiar with Radio Open Source, this is an approach worth at least serious consideration, and perhaps outright emulation, by broadcasters elsewhere.
According to SIRIUS, SIRIUS radios will not become obsolete after SIRIUS merges with XM. As you might recall, SIRIUS Satellite Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI), recently announced plans to merge with XM Satellite Radio-now SIRIUS is officially issuing a guarantee to its more than 12 million current listeners that existing radios will not become obsolete if the
Boston Celtics radio analyst Cedric Maxwell apologized on the air Wednesday night for saying that a female referee should "go back to the kitchen" after he disagreed with one of her calls.
The long dance that led XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio to agree to what's being termed a $13 billion "merger of equals" announced Feb. 19 may have been the easy part. Now the two companies need the Federal Communications Commission to go along. And that might very well be even tougher than reaching an agreement on how to co









