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Radio gets a radical revamp

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Industry experts say that radio can embrace technology and sustain its popularity. Growing sales of digital sets worldwide certainly lend strength to that theory. [MORE]

Source: BBC News

Los Angeles Rock Station Indie 103 Going Web-Only, Quits “Corporate Radio Game”

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Los Angeles’ Indie 103, one of the nation’s most renowned alternative rock stations, announced on air today that they’ll end their FM broadcast “effective immediately” and instead only exist on the Web. [MORE]

Source: Rolling Stone

Music sales for 2008 ride digital coattails

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Digital music, long the bane of the music industry, may finally be something that record label executives can smile about. [MORE]

Source: cnet

Radio ‘could go digital in 2017′

Friday, December 19th, 2008

The Digital Radio Working Group (DRWG) says that by 2015, less than half of all radio listening could be via traditional FM or AM sets. [MORE]

Source: BBC News

Live Nation Plans Digital Service, Takes On Entire Music Industry

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

They are already the world’s largest concert promoters, they’ve branched out to form their own ticketing service and record labels, and now Live Nation will seek to challenge iTunes’ digital music dominance by launching their own music service through their website. [MORE]

Source: Rolling Stone

Digital radio ‘without frontiers’

Monday, October 20th, 2008

A new form of digital broadcasting, David Reid discovered, has the potential to re-draw the global radio map. [MORE]

Source: BBC News

New bill calls for HD-compatible satellite radio

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Legislators over the weekend introduced new legislation requiring satellite radio receivers to pick up digital signals, even though federal regulators are still seeking public comment on the issue. [MORE]

Source: CNET

CBS Radio Shuffles Execs, Goodman Targets Digital

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

In a move that reflects the growing importance of digital revenues to radio’s bottom line, CBS Radio is reorganizing its top management, the radio group’s president and CEO Dan Mason announced earlier this week. [MORE]

Source: MediaPost

The Record Industry’s Digital Distribution Plan (TotalMusic) Comes Back From the Dead

Friday, August 8th, 2008

The music industry’s attempts to create its own digital distribution business is like a bad horror movie. [MORE]

Source: TechCrunch

CBS wants 50 percent revenue growth from digital in three years

Friday, August 1st, 2008

In a conference call to discuss CBS’s quarterly results, CEO Les Moonves pointed to the recently announced selloff of radio stations and acquisition of CNET as an effort to jumpstart growth. [MORE]

Source: Valleywag