Posts Tagged ‘Radio’

Airtalent: Building Your Radio Community, From Local To Global, At The Worldwide Radio …. The climax of this year’s WORLDWIDE RADIO SUMMIT 2012, APRIL 27-28 at the W HOTEL, brought to you by ALL ACCESS and A&R WORLDWIDE, is “Air Talent – Building Your Radio Community – From Local To Global” and it will be a [...]

  Another Station Drops Rush Limbaugh As Furor Continues | AllAccess.com. VOX COMMUNICATIONS GROUP Talk WBEC-A/PITTSFIELD, MA is the second station to drop RUSH LIMBAUGH in the wake of the PREMIERE NETWORKS’ controversy over comments about student activist SANDRA FLUKE. The BERKSHIRE EAGLE reports that GM PETER BARRY said, “Certainly his comments were outrageous. There’s no reason [...]

By Funkworm Hip hop artist Rhymefest wrote a thought provoking article at DJ Booth.net posing the question about who is more responsible for breaking records currently; bloggers or DJ’s? This has become increasingly frustrating for artists who find out that a lot of club DJ’s only want to play what’s hot on the streets and a terrestrial [...]

Why Kanye West Endured One of the Biggest Grammy Snubs in History | Suite101.com. With the exclusion of West’s ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ as a nominee for Album of the Year, the 2012 Grammys loses credibility. The Grammys committee, more so than any other top flight awards organization, seem to ruffle the feathers of [...]

Atlanta, GA (BlackNews.com) — A new book entitled Sex Time And Radio Vol. 3: The Cult of Personality has been released as part of a 5 volume, 4 book series about life in urban radio during the 1990s & 2000s. The author of the series is Marcus Chapman; a music historian and on-air personality known [...]

By Glenn Peoples, Nashville Pandora and Spotify Face Different Issues In Getting Music Rights Let’s revisit this statement in 10 or 20 years: Streaming music services such as Pandora and Spotify are “not radio substitutes any more than your Walkman, CD collection or iPod ever was,” Lew Dickey, CEO, president and chairman of Cumulus Media, [...]

Industry Tips & Advice: How Music Licensing Works by Marshall Brain Pt 7 « GET IT DONE BLOG. Think music licensing is limited to t.v. and the film industry? Think again. The video game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for Playstation 2 and its soundtrack box set are filled with dozens of famous songs. There’s [...]

Industry Tips & Advice: How Music Licensing Works by Marshall Brain Pt 5 – Digg. Commercials and Film If you want to use a song in a TV or radio commercial, you need a Master Use license from the label (unless you are re-recording the performance) and a Synchronization license (TV) and/or aTranscription license (radio) from the publisher. According to [...]

Clear Channel Radio Rebranded As Clear Channel Media And Entertainment | AllAccess.com. CLEAR CHANNEL RADIO has changed its name to CLEAR CHANNEL MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT to “better reflect the evolution of its business.” The company said the core of CLEAR CHANNEL’s business will remain its more than 850 radio stations, but the new brand more [...]

Industry Tips & Advice: How Music Licensing Works by Marshall Brain Pt 4 « GET IT DONE BLOG. ASCAP and BMI If you own a radio station or a restaurant and you want to broadcast or play music, what you need are public performance rights– the right to play music that the general public will hear in one [...]