| Danny Williams Calling Time on Iconic Radio Career | The Daily Oklahoman August 25, 2008 | Aug. 25--The calls already are flooding in to his morning show on KOMA-FM 92.5.
A radio and television icon in Oklahoma City since 1950, Danny Williams says he's really retiring Friday, ending a broadcasting career that began in 1947 on an Austin, Texas, radio station.
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| | Radio Dips 7% for First Half of '08 | | .August 22, 2008 | "Even factoring in a robust 12 percent growth in off-air advertising and a 3 percent climb for network radio, radio advertising is still down 5 percent to $9.9 billion at mid-year."
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| | Internet Radio Booming but Threatened | | San Jose Mercury NewsAugust 20, 2008 | Aug. 20--With a growing audience of up to 54 million monthly listeners, Internet radio is one of the biggest trends in digital music.
But if you believe the industry's leaders, it's threatened with extinction.
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| John DePetro Blames Wife for Radio Ratings Scandal | | Boston HeraldAugust 22, 2008 | Aug. 22--Former Boston radio host John DePetro is blaming the missus -- saying his wife is behind the cheating ratings scandal that boosted his Rhode Island radio show and that he had no idea she cooked the books.
The station said in a statement that the six bogus Arbitron diaries that benefited WPRO in the spring ratings period were returned by DePetro's wife.
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| | Media & Marketing: Live Nation Teams Up With Promoter | | The Wall Street JournalAugust 21, 2008 | In a bid to strengthen its global touring business, Live Nation Inc. has formed a partnership with the biggest concert promoter in Latin America, Corporacion Interamericana de Entretenimiento SAB de C.V., known as CIE.
Competitors with acts on world tours wouldn't be able to use CIE's venues.
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| Russo joins Sirius XM Radio | | Associated Press/AP OnlineAugust 19, 2008 | NEW YORK - Chris Russo has signed a five-year contract with Sirius XM Radio to headline a new sports talk channel, less than a week after leaving WFAN's "Mike and the Mad Dog" show.
Russo will host the "The Mad Dog Sports Show" live weekdays at 2 p.m ET starting on Sept. 15.
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| | Wal-Mart Confirms AC/DC Album Deal | | The Wall Street JournalAugust 19, 2008 | The move -- which makes the veteran rockers the latest artist to sell a new album only through Wal-Mart -- highlights the retailer's music-industry clout.
The album, called "Black Ice," will be available at the retailer's stores and Web sites Oct. 20, as well as on the band's Web site.
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| Radio Webcaster May Have to Pull the Plug | | Los Angeles TimesAugust 19, 2008 | Pandora is one of the nation's most popular Web radio services, with about 1 million listeners daily.
"We're approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision," said Tim Westergren, who founded Oakland-based Pandora.
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| | Clear Channel Radio traffic network expands | | Associated Press/AP OnlineAugust 18, 2008 | SAN ANTONIO - Clear Channel Radio's Total Traffic Network said Monday it expanded its real-time traffic data network to an additional 15 markets.
The additional markets include Binghamton, N.Y.; Charleston, S.C.; El Paso, Texas; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Honolulu; Melbourne, Fla.; Mobile, Ala.; Modesto, Calif.; Oklahoma City; Panama City, Fla.; Pensacola, Fla.; Spokane, Wash.; Stockton, Calif; Tallahassee, Fla., and Tuscaloosa, Ala.
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| Sports Talk Radio Never Will Be the Same Again | | New York NewsdayAugust 15, 2008 | In sifting through the rubble after the divorce of WFAN's
Because no matter what happens from here, without Mike Francesa and Chris Russo together from 1 until 6:30 every afternoon, the sports radio landscape in New York never will be the same.
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| | Xbox to sell Warner Music videos for $1.99 | | Associated Press/AP OnlineAugust 15, 2008 | LOS ANGELES - Gamers with a hankering to watch music videos will have more choices after Warner Music Group Corp. announced Thursday it is adding its library of videos to Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 game console.
Videos from Sony BMG, which sell for the equivalent of $1.99, have been offered on the Xbox since last December.
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| The Death of Radio? | | Victoria Advocate, Victoria, TexasAugust 14, 2008 | In 2008, is it going to be technology that finally kills the radio star?
With new technologies like iPods, satellite radio and online streaming music becoming more common, talk of traditional terrestrial radio biting the dust has been running rampant in recent years.
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| | Telstra's Net Provider Bigpond Expands Digital Music Business. | | AsiaPulse NewsAugust 13, 2008 | SYDNEY, Aug 13 Asia Pulse - BigPond is stepping up its presence in the digital music business after signing a deal with all four major Australian record companies.
Telstra's (ASX:TLS) internet service provider today announced it had made an Australian-first deal to offer music from Sony BMG, Universal, Warner Music and EMI, as well as independent labels such as MGM and Liberation.
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| FCC to Attend 'Phantom of the Opera'. | | Broadcasting & CableAugust 11, 2008 | Staff
The FCC picked the Majestic Theater in New York, now showing The Phantom of the Opera for testing unlicensed mobile devices to determine whether those devices' use of the white spaces between TV channels and wireless microphones could make communications go haywire.
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| | Cool Rules the (Air)Waves: Radio Camp Prepares Students for Broadcasting Careers | | The Telegraph (Alton, Ill.)August 12, 2008 | We're a high school, and we have a radio station," said Ellen Rull, 17, one of the students at this week's radio camp.
"These kids are now the 'cool girls'" on campus, AHS communications teacher Annice Brave said about several of the girls who took an interview break from radio camp last week.
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| FCC Has Final Say on Broadcast of IPR Station | | Ottumwa CourierAugust 12, 2008 | Aug. 12--OTTUMWA -- Iowa Public Radio officials hope they have a target for bringing Ottumwa's second station online, but it depends on what federal regulators want.
The second station, KDWI 89.1 FM, carries the broader spectrum of IPR programming, including many National Public Radio programs.
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| | Radio Will Get Meter Readings | | Los Angeles TimesAugust 12, 2008 | A multimillion-dollar industry that relied on the honor system to determine its income will turn a page this week.
On Wednesday, radio stations in Los Angeles and Orange County will get their ratings for the first time from a new electronic monitoring system, replacing the decades-old method in which listeners scribbled in a diary what they'd been tuning in to.
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| Rejection Gave Radio Exec Time to Prepare | | Chicago TribuneAugust 11, 2008 | Working in his dad's bakery opened Darren Davis's eyes to a radio career.
In the fall, shortly after Davis returned to George Washington University in Washington, D.C., he got an unexpected phone call.
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| Business Brief -- Sirius XM Radio Inc.: Newly Merged Company's Quarterly Loss Narrows | | The Wall Street JournalAugust 08, 2008 | Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.'s second-quarter net loss narrowed as it continued to spend less to attract new subscribers in its last reporting period as a stand-alone company.
The company, which was renamed Sirius XM Radio Inc. following last week's merger with XM Satellite Radio Holdings, reported a net loss of $83.9 million, or six cents a share, compared with a year-earlier net loss of $134.1 million, or nine cents a share.
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| | WALK-FM, LI's Top Radio Station, Up for Sale | | Newsday, Melville, N.Y.August 06, 2008 | Aug. 6--WALK-FM, the Arbitron-rated No.
1 radio station on Long Island, is among the stations that Clear Channel Communications is putting up for sale, the radio and billboard giant said yesterday.
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| Radio One Loss Grew With Drop In Ad Sales; Spending Shifts to Web, Firm Says | | The Washington PostAugust 06, 2008 | Urban media company Radio One yesterday reported a second-quarter loss of $11.7 million as it contends with an industry-wide decline in radio advertising revenue and expands its Internet efforts.
"Listening to radio is stronger than it has ever been," said Perry Steiner of Arlington Capital Partners, which bought five stations from Lanham-based Radio One last year.
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| | Sony to Take Over Music Partnership | | The Wall Street JournalAugust 06, 2008 | Sony Corp. raised its bet on the ailing music industry by agreeing to buy Bertelsmann AG's half of their Sony BMG Music Entertainment joint venture, a move Sony hopes will give it an inexpensive way to bolster its consumer- electronics business.
The deal values Sony BMG -- the world's No.
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| Local Investors Buy Five Columbus Radio Stations | | Columbus Ledger-EnquirerAugust 06, 2008 | Aug. 6--The song remains the same, even if the name has changed.
A group of local investors has bought Archway Broadcasting Group's four Columbus stations: rock station WCGQ-FM 107.3, country station WKCN-FM 99.3, oldies station WRLD-FM 95.3 and WRCG-AM 1420.
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| | Attorneys Make Cases for, Against New Trial in Music Download Lawsuit | | Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, Minn.)August 05, 2008 | Aug. 5--There's a good chance that Jammie Thomas, found liable last October in the nation's first music download trial, will get another chance in court.
That was the upshot of an hour-long hearing Monday in which attorneys for Thomas and the recording and movie industries argued for and against granting her a new trial.
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| Is It Economical to Tune Out Satellite Radio and Its Cost? | | Chicago TribuneAugust 03, 2008 | Common targets for family spending cuts include work lunches out, premium cable TV channels and the perennial whipping boy of financial advice, a daily latte.
Many people apparently think so, as the two satellite radio companies that recently completed their merger, XM and Sirius, have been adding subscribers at a healthy clip despite a down economy.
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| | CBS to Sell 50 Mid-Size Radio Units | | Los Angeles TimesAugust 01, 2008 | For CBS Corp., it wasn't video that killed the radio star -- but a severe downturn in local advertising.
The company's once-mighty radio division continued to produce static and a drag on the company's earnings.
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| Yahoo to Offer Music Coupons | | Los Angeles TimesJuly 31, 2008 | Yahoo Inc. is offering coupons or refunds to users who find songs they bought inaccessible after Sept. 30, when the company shuts its music-download service.
The decision to close the Yahoo Music Store had added fuel to criticisms over copy-protection measures known as digital rights management.
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| | Sirius Stock Falls As $2.8 Billion Merger Closes | | Chicago TribuneJuly 30, 2008 | Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. completed its purchase of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. in an all-stock takeover valued at $2.76 billion.
The shares dropped on investor concern over new stock and debt offerings.
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