SoundExchange put out a happy face press release on Thursday, announcing that the performance royalty distributor has paid out no less than $204.4 million to artists and their representatives in the first two quarters of 2012. But attention through most of the week has focused on Representative Jerrold Nadler’s (D-NY) rather contorted effort to correct […]
Dr. Demento is the veteran broadcaster who first exposed the listening public to Weird Al Yankovic when the parody musician was recording accordian-laden tapes in his dormatory bathroom. Demento’s eponymously titled radio program has brought silly songs and funny ditties to the radio for nearly four decades. The good Doctor (also known as Barret Eugene […]
I spent some time in Hong Kong and Japan in July, and when I came back, a minor revolution had taken place at my favorite turntable.fm room: Classical of Any Kind (or COAK as the regulars call it). I guess you could call it a BOT revolution. The name of the BOT is called “boothoven[bot].” The […]
I’ve been enjoying Jennifer Lane’s Audio4cast blog because she cuts through the growing avalanche of stories and fluffed up press releases to highlight just a handful of important news items in the internet radio world each week. She recently wrote about Triton Digital’s top 20 US streaming audio rankings for May, observing that Clear Channel’s […]
As I’ve admitted before, I can be a stickler for sound quality when it comes to consuming audio media. Unfortunately, in so many ways the fidelity of plain old analog broadcast FM radio is rarely matched by digital media, where lower bitrates and lower sound quality are chosen for cost considerations, or to squeeze more […]
I am visiting Hong Kong, which has been rocked by demonstrations protesting the arrival of China’s President Hu Jintao (Update: I took the YouTube video above at today [Sunday’s] amazing pro-democracy demonstration on Hong Kong Island). He’s in town to commemorate the 15th anniversary of “The Handover,” as it is called around here. That’s the […]
I love it when I get mail! After reading my post about Stitcher’s podcast charts, Michael Robertson, online audio pioneer, founder of MP3.com and current CEO of DAR.fm emailed me today to let me know that his site also features charts for all the programs that users record, right on the home page. I knew […]
The Turntable.fm Android application is finally available (oddly unannounced this weekend on tt.fm’s official blog). I tried it on Saturday, and it works very well on my Droid X. Nice, economical interface. The chat feature is very clear and easy to use. My DJ Queue menu works fine. And, most important, the music sounds great. […]
An interesting post on the BBC Internet Blog about the service’s strategy for getting its younger audience more engaged again. “We’re missing a trick here,” explained BBC interactive music expert Mark Friend during a seminar held at the London Radio Theater. “If we look at the numbers of people who listen to our radio stations […]
Regular Radio Survivor readers are doubtlessly aware of Turntable.fm, my colleague Matthew’s favorite online music site. Turntable lets users join a room, pick an avatar and play DJ for all the other listeners in the virtual club. Matthew likes the “Classical of all kinds” room, but there are rooms dedicated just about every other genre […]
