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Salon.com
April 3, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Fighting pay-for-play Sources in the music industry call for a federal clampdown on the new payola...   |
Salon.com
June 5, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
The "Bootylicious" gambit Can a hot new single from Destiny's Child help Columbia Records crack the indie promoters' control of pop radio? |
Salon.com
June 25, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Will Congress tackle pay-for-play? Radio-station owners are shocked -- shocked! -- as the music industry's payola scandal widens. Record-label execs aren't buying it (and neither should you). |
Salon.com
August 7, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
The empire strikes back As the music industry's "pay-for-play" scandal deepens, the big five record labels try to crush the expanding power of the dreaded indie promoters. |
Salon.com
July 24, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Payola City In the wild world of urban radio, money buys hits -- and nobody asks questions... |
Salon.com
March 13, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Record companies: Save us from ourselves! With payola up but profits down, labels are wondering if paying $100 million to middlemen "fixers" is still a swell business idea... |
Salon.com
August 6, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
More waves in the radio business Is corporate behemoth Clear Channel behind the latest shakeup? |
Salon.com
April 30, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Radio's big bully Dirty tricks and crappy programming: Welcome to the world of Clear Channel, the biggest station owner in America... |
Salon.com
August 8, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Suit: Clear Channel is an illegal monopoly A tiny Denver promoter is taking the most powerful force in the music industry to court... |
Salon.com
June 25, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Is Clear Channel selling hit singles? Insiders suggest that the broadcasting giant gave an obscure singer major airplay to promote its pricey new market-research program. |
Salon.com
August 8, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Rock 'n' radio rumble A dust-up involving Clear Channel and a Blink-182 concert in Cincinnati doesn't seem to be an isolated event... |
Popular Mechanics
September 16, 2008
Glenn Derene |
Is the Music Industry Trying to Kill Modern Internet Radio? Why the creator of Pandora might have to shut down and whether Apple or Microsoft will have to bail out the Web's favorite personalized music service, even as they unveil their own. |
Wired
March 2005
Charles C. Mann |
The Resurrection of Indie Radio FM never sounded so freaking good. How the coming digital boom - and Big Radio's bottom line - is driving the new golden age of multichannel, microniche broadcasting. |
Salon.com
July 25, 2000
Mark Schapiro |
The day the music died The merger of America's largest concert promoter with its largest radio station owner will mean Pringles, payola and more Top 40 from coast to coast. |
Wired
January 18, 2008
Brendan I. Koerner |
Why Things Suck: Radio The FM band between 92.1 and 107.9, where commercial stations reign, is mostly a desert of robo-DJs and pop pabulum. |
Salon.com
August 7, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Radio's titan hits the skids After replacing a high-profile exec, Clear Channel, the 800-pound gorilla of the entertainment industry, suddenly faces a lot of banana peels. |
Salon.com
November 20, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Is Clear Channel playing a "shell game"? Critics of the radio-industry giant charge that it is skirting federal ownership rules with puppet competitors... |
Salon.com
March 26, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Web radio's last stand A new ruling involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is set to wipe out independent online music stations... |
Salon.com
May 30, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Tough company Clear Channel is as big as NBC or Gannett. Chances are it owns a half-dozen radio stations in your town. And it's fighting employee suits alleging everything from broken contracts to sexual harassment. |
Inc.
May 1, 2000
Anne Marie Borrego |
Upstarts: MP3 Tunes on the Web. The way we listen to music is about to change. Again. But as usual, where there's change, there's start-up opportunity. |
Salon.com
October 1, 2002
Todd Spencer |
Radio killed the radio star Consolidation has resulted in 10,000 layoffs, the demise of a beloved trade magazine, and a decline in programming quality. But industry execs are fat and happy. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Music for the Masses Sony, the fourth and final major music label to offer downloadable tunes in the unshackled MP3 format, will be available in the virtual aisles of Amazon.com later this month. |
Salon.com
March 27, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Washington tunes in Critics accuse Clear Channel of shady radio deals and nasty concert business. Now the government is starting to pay attention... |
Job Journal
January 18, 2009
Janet White |
Get the Job by Having It Traditional job hunting is all about the process of getting hired, but a job-search expert suggests a more transcendent approach: Get the job of your dreams by thinking, speaking and acting as if you already have it. |
BusinessWeek
August 15, 2005
Jon Fine |
Late to the Download Dance Hear the song, buy the song -- downloaded through the station's Web site. Too bad radio didn't do this sooner. More than 100 U.S. stations are expected sell music this way by fall. |
BusinessWeek
February 23, 2011
Brad Stone |
Michael Robertson Bucks the Music Industry Again The San Diego entrepreneur's latest: DAR.fm, a digital audio recorder that downloads songs from radio. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Fool's Look Back Musical cacophonies and visual epiphanies came in handy this past week: You spin me right round, baby, right round like a record, baby... Learning to Reed can open a few investing doors for you... |
The Motley Fool
May 20, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Music's 2010 Overture If traditional radio and the major record labels want to matter in five years, they better make some changes. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Putting Pandora Back in the Box Who wins when you kill the innovators? |
The Motley Fool
October 25, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Spitzer Pumps Up the Volume New York's attorney general aims at the shady practice of payola in the music industry. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2007
Willie D. Jones |
Low Power to the People A South Carolina city is the latest battleground for low-watt community radio. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Is Internet Radio Dying? The days of independent radio on the Net could be numbered, say some experts. A recently established royalty fee payable to record companies may price many small content providers out of the market, leaving some with no choice but to shut down. |
Salon.com
December 19, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Music industry in the pits! Record sales are down, no one's seeing concerts, no one's advertising on radio and the stars are revolting... |
BusinessWeek
March 24, 2011
Ronald Grover |
Making Public Radio a Little More Private A group of media investors, seeing a way to thrive without federal funds, is looking to acquire local stations in Southern California. |
Salon.com
June 28, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
One big happy channel? The Telecommunications Reform Act handed over control of the radio airwaves to a chosen few. Will TV be next? |
PC Magazine
May 2, 2008
Brian Heater |
Radio 2.0 Although many people are still tied to terrestrial radio, a new era is on the horizon. Wi-Fi radio lets you listen to Internet stations on any Wi-Fi-enabled device, not just your laptop. |
Reason
June 2007
Jesse Walker |
Killing Internet Radio The U.S. Copyright Office recently announced a potential death sentence for thousands of Internet radio stations. Thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, webcasters must pay a special performance fee each time they play a recording. |
AskMen.com
Kevin Young |
How To: Start A Record Label More than ever, smaller record labels are wielding serious clout in the music industry. Here are some tips to success in this industry. |
Salon.com
March 20, 2001
Janelle Brown |
The next Napster? A new online music service aims to give listeners what they want -- if music-biz moguls are smart enough to let it. |
New Architect
February 2003
Bret A. Fausett |
Radio, Radio Why not let the webcasters play? |
Home Toys
February 2006 |
Playlist Fatigue -- Causes and Cures Streaming audio sources are expanding rapidly and many are commercial-free and subscription-free. With the new audio sources and software such as SelectRadio, you too can find the cure to playlist fatique! |
Fast Company
November 2013
Josh Dean |
Sean Parker's Unfinished Business Sean Parker tells us why he invests in Spotify. |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Sirius XM and Pandora Better Watch Out Radio giant Clear Channel announces that the iHeartRadio customized stations that it rolled out two months ago will continue to be commercial-free through the end of March. |
Wired
December 18, 2007
David Byrne |
David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists -- and Megastars What is called the music business today has became the business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over. But there have never been more opportunities for artists to reach an audience. |
Mother Jones
August 1999
Alex Markels |
Low Power To The People Muted by the high cost of broadcast licenses, diverse voices may yet step up to the mike, thanks to a new FCC proposal |
Popular Mechanics
September 22, 2009
Seth Porges |
In Defense of FM Radio on MP3 Players Yes, Apple has pushed me back into FM radio. |
PC World
April 19, 2001
Frank Thorsberg |
Web Radio Goes Silent in Legal Crossfire Broadcast stations suspend Webcasting while caught between union battle and copyright fights... |
Reason
May 2009
Tim Cavanaugh |
Don't Measure Me, Bro Why broadcasters fear accurate audience ratings measured by the new Portable People Meter. |
Reason
December 2004
Jesse Walker |
Liberal Demographic Clear Channel turns left: American broadcasting is a government-protected cartel, not a free market. But even a distorted market needs consumers, and if an underserved group of listeners is big enough, someone will notice them. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2007
David Lee Smith |
The FCC Doesn't Get It FCC head Kevin Martin has proposed changes that would allow companies to own a newspaper and a TV or radio station in the same market. This could cause more problems than it solves. |
