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Clear Channel 2.0? 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Radio giant ClearChannel
is taking it to the web. Monday and Tuesday of this week saw back-to-back announcements about the company's new Internet-based initiatives, both of which show an emphatic embrace of the online world and its place in the evolution of radio.
Let's take the Tuesday announcement first, as ... Read more:Clear Channel
Emmis, Meet iTunes. iTunes, meet Emmis. 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Monday's news brought us this shining tidbit about Emmis Communications' new partnership with iTunes
. Tom Spalding of IndyStar.com brings us the scoop:
Emmis executives today announced that its Chicago subsidiary, Emmis Interactive, has reached a deal with Apple's iTunes Store to market Emmis' custom "Storefront" technology to outside radio stations ...
Hitting A Triple: AOL, Last.fm, and CBS Radio 0000-00-00 00:00:00 In an expansion of the relationship between CBS Radio
(parent company of Last.fm) and AOL, a deal has been struck to have Last.fm power AOL's internet radio efforts in the European theater. Mark Walsh of Online Media Daily transmits the details:
The alliance builds on a deal struck in March under ... Read more:Hitting
, Triple
Matrimonial Transmission 0000-00-00 00:00:00 It is extremely interesting to watch the back and forth flow of ideas between the Internet world and "real life." In this day and age, anyone can throw together a website or MySpace associated with any sort of event or concept. Wedding websites seem to be particularly popular these days, ... Read more:Transmission
Stormy Weather 0000-00-00 00:00:00 As regular readers are aware, I am a child of the deep south -- New Orleans to be exact. As a result, I am far more familiar with hurricanes and floods than I am with tornadoes and other weather systems that afflict the inland areas of the country.
This is why ...
Getting Social: Web Theory Meets Terrestrial Radio 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Yes, you did read that title correctly, and personally, I think this is one of the niftiest innovations I have seen in a while! The BBC along with their creative design consultants Schulze and Webb are bringing the Web 2.0 world of social networking to radio. Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins of ... Read more:Radio
, Social
, Theory
Held Hostage: Radio as a Lifeline 0000-00-00 00:00:00 During my tenure here on the Radio
2020 Blog, I have looked at technology, community, content, and other aspects of the radio ecosystem. I have talked at several points about how fundamental radio was to us in New Orleans after the levee failure of 2005. Now I want to show ... Read more:Hostage
, Lifeline
WWOZ/Jazz Fest II: Community Voices 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Welcome to part two of my focus on local radio and community. Today, I am going to present some of the input I have gotten from members of the community here in New Orleans during the 2008 Jazz and Heritage Fest. I contacted many people at different socioeconomic strata ... Read more:Voices
Live From the New Orleans Jazz Fest: Community and Radio 0000-00-00 00:00:00 A lot has been bandied about recently on the subject of local content and community in regard to radio. Over the next few days, Radio
2020 will be bringing you a case study of the subject as I blog from the New Orleans
Jazz and Heritage Festival along with WWOZ 90.7 ...
John Cargher Passes 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Sad news from down under. John Cargher has left the building. ABC News reports on the passing of this radio legend:
It began on 3LO (now 774 ABC Melbourne) for what was planned to be a 13-part series. Because of the program's success, it was soon transferred to the ABC's national ... Read more:Passes
Neil Tun3s In To The Shared Experience 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Neil Hepburn is the man behind Tun3r.com, a fascinating effort blending Internet radio and streamed terrestrial radio with a unique (and fun) interface. Not only that, but as I discovered yesterday, he is also one hell of a blogger.
While I will be revisiting Tun3r in the near future to talk ...
Destiny: More Interesting News From Vancouver 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Today we return to Vancouver
, Canada, for the news item du jour here on Radio2020. Two days in a row, I cast my eyes and ears northward from my subtropical office to find noteworthy occurrences.
I'm not sure how I missed this little bit of technology news. It appeared in Broadcaster ... Read more:Destiny
Congratulations! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Let's start this week with some positive reinforcement, shall we? Congratulations
where they are due, and I see several instances where they most certainly are.
To begin with, there was a very special birthday this past weekend. Czech Radio turned 85 years old! Here is a little info from ...
UK Commercial Radio Booming! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I am sure that advertisers are far from the only ones to be pleased with the latest news from the UK, news which betokens radio maturing into the digital age. Caitlin Fitzsimmons of The UK Guardian reports:
The UK commercial radio sector has recorded its best quarter in two years, with ... Read more:Commercial
, Radio
Embrace the Technology 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Regular readers will recall the post I did back on April 8 about Clear Channel's introduction of iTunes tagging capabilities to the newest generation of HD Radios. Now, a month and a half later, the subject comes up once more now that the non-radio mainstream media begins to take notice ... Read more:Technology
BBC Radio: A Call for Privatization 0000-00-00 00:00:00 BBC Radio
1 and Radio 2 are facing some tough issues. The licensing fee that funds the government-owned broadcasters is facing probable reductions, and the competition from other public broadcasting outfits is getting more and more fierce as the overall pie dwindles. John Plunkett at The Guardian UK reports:
The outgoing ... Read more:BBC Radio
That Latin Sound: Both Sides of the Border 0000-00-00 00:00:00 As one of the largest and fastest growing ethnic groups in the U.S., the voice of the Latin
communty has been gaining volume for some time now. As a result, it is only appropriate that we turn our attention towards two major news items that directly impact that community.
Let's start ... Read more:Sound
, Sides
, Border
Online in Scotland 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The march towards radio's future continues in Scotland
. The land of single malts may bring to mind pastoral scenes hardly evocative of high technology, but this perception is far from accurate. As a matter of fact, Jeff Zycinski, head of radio for BBC Scotland, is helping spearhead a major initiative ...
HD, DAB, and Teens: The New Stuff 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Hello, Internet! In the wake of taking an extra day off for Memorial Day, I thought I might supply a roundup of a few different stories that caught my eye over the break. Here are my top three -- a purely personal designation.
According to a press release I discovered on ... Read more:Teens
Dudley Hospital Radio 0000-00-00 00:00:00 In the West Midlands area of the UK lies a community called Dudley. In that community is a hospital, and in that hospital is.. a radio station?
Russells Hall Hospital got a visit from Rachel Hickman recently as she sat in on the Ade at Eight show on Dudley Hospital Radio
. ...
Radio vs. Climate Change: Audio for Africa’s Farmers 0000-00-00 00:00:00 There are a lot of things that radio can do, many of them quite surprising. I think that a recent initiative in Africa
is the single most surprising radio story I have run across in a long, long time (and as you may correctly surmise, I see a lot of ... Read more:Radio
, Climate
, Change
, Audio
Look Both Ways 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Many speeches and press releases talk about looking towards the future or being aware of the past. It is my humble suggestion that we all try to do both. The past provides context, and an awareness of history. This is extremely important for in the words of George Santayana, "Those ...
The World’s Highest Radio Station 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Humans are obsessed with extremes. The biggest, fastest, sharpest, hardest, etc. With that in mind, today we will take a look at the highest radio station and recent developments there (as presented on Thaindian) :
Srinagar, May 29 (IANS) The reach of the world’s highest radio station was Thursday further enhanced ... Read more:World
, Radio
, Station
Bluetooth and FM, Together Again For The Very First Time! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 It has been a little while since I looked at any new gadgets in this blog, so today I am going to rectify that.
Back on the 13th of February I wrote a piece here on the Radio2020 Blog about Jeff Haley's announcement of a mission to put radio receivers "on ... Read more:Bluetooth
, Again
, First
, Together Again
Coming to Cabo: Imported DJs 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Sammy Hagar and Shadoe Stevens are not playing around. Last New Year's Eve, they launched Cabo Wabo Radio, a station that now pulls in 120,000 listeners in over 100 different countries since its addition to iTunes last March. These two are not resting on their laurels -- not one ...
Royalties and the Internet: The Conflict Continues 0000-00-00 00:00:00 There are many flavors of radio out there ranging from broadcast to digital to purely Internet
-based. Without too much work, you can find many of the same songs on each. What makes things interesting is the uneven way that royalty fees are dealt with across these various delivery mechanisms. Jim ... Read more:Royalties
, Conflict
Narcissism Moment: My Interview 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Neil Hepburn, one of the principles of Tun3r, and I have been trading emails since my recent syndicted crosspost of a piece he did a while back on the Tun3r blog. To my surprise, one of the first things he inquired about was the possibility of doing an interview about ... Read more:Moment
Strange New Worlds 0000-00-00 00:00:00 No, I am not talking about the ones explored by the starship Enterprise while it was seeking out new life and new civilizations. Instead, I am talking about a website I recently discovered: Strange
New Worlds
Radio. I'll allow them to describe themselves:
If you want to buy it, fix it, ...
Radio: Cleaning Up Outer Space? 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Lots of things have been said about radio. I know, I say a lot of them and read many of the rest. This, however, is one of the most interesting things I have seen in awhile. According to Jeff Hect's writing in the "Space
" section of New Scientist, it would ... Read more:Radio
, Cleaning
AOL/CBS Now Online 0000-00-00 00:00:00 AOL Radio listeners will be in for a change this week as 140 CBS Radio stations' streams are added to their repetoire, along with an improved media player.
According to Seth Sutel of the Associated Press, one of the innovations of the new player is the fact that the company seems ...
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