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Source: Audio4cast
Title: Internet Radio May Save Rock and Roll
Author: Jennifer Lane
So says Music Industry Veteran Danny Goldberg in this video. In it he’s speaking about his newly published book Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business , which is a tell-all about the music industry from his personal perspective. Among other things, he was manager of Nirvana.
According to Goldberg, “Internet radio is the silver lining of the deterioration of commercial radio.” He says that commercial radio is all about ratings and reaching the most people, and that is not what is best for record labels. They really just want to reach the passionate active core audience, who get turned off by generic programming. That audience isn’t listening to commercial radio anymore, says Goldberg. But they are listening to Internet radio.
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Source: RAIN
Title: WEBCASTER SETTLEMENT MAY LEAVE SMALLER FIRMS IN A TOUGH SPOT, SAYS INDUSTRY ATTORNEY
Author: Paul Maloney
Industry attorney David Oxenford notes in his Broadcast Law Blog (here) that recent articles on webcasters like Tim Westergren of Pandora and Jon Potter, President of DiMA, indicate that a resolution between large-commercial webcasters and SoundExchange could be near.
However, Westergren called the deal “tremendously unfair,” and noted that “perhaps not all webcasters would be able to survive at the rate being discussed, and some might have to try to enter into their own agreements to fit other types of webcast operations,” according to Oxenford (RAIN coverage here). Indeed, there has been uncertainty as to where small commercial and non-commercial webcasters will stand, and Oxenford reveals that settlements with non-DiMA groups will only take place after a resolution is reached with the DiMA webcasters.
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