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Radio 2020: True goal of SoundExchange offer: Screw artists and indies?
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RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter" Publisher (and AccuRadio CEO) Kurt Hanson tries to figure out how the radio and music industries can work together for their mutual success. Sunday, July 8, 2007. True goal of SoundExchange offer: Screw artists and indies? A week and a half ago, the negotiating committee of SoundExchange. Offered a "compromise solution" to webcasters. They announced at a House subcommittee. Hearing (and in a synchronized press release) an offer to limit the CRB. What good does it do P...
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Radio 2020: April 2008
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RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter" Publisher (and AccuRadio CEO) Kurt Hanson tries to figure out how the radio and music industries can work together for their mutual success. Thursday, April 3, 2008. The Pleasure of Personalization (v2). Dramatic presentations changed in many ways when they leapt from the distribution mechanism of live theater to the distribution method of the movie screen. Similarly, because the Internet is a delivery mechanism that sends a separate. These new opportunities into a pr...
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Radio 2020: Welcome to Radio 2020, the blog
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RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter" Publisher (and AccuRadio CEO) Kurt Hanson tries to figure out how the radio and music industries can work together for their mutual success. Monday, June 18, 2007. Welcome to Radio 2020, the blog. Early experiments with structures like LMAs were precursors of consolidation. And so forth. In just a similarly few years from now, the year 2020 is going to be here. What do we know or reasonably suspect radio is going to be like then? HD Radio will be dead or at best limpi...
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Radio 2020: July 2007
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RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter" Publisher (and AccuRadio CEO) Kurt Hanson tries to figure out how the radio and music industries can work together for their mutual success. Sunday, July 8, 2007. True goal of SoundExchange offer: Screw artists and indies? A week and a half ago, the negotiating committee of SoundExchange. Offered a "compromise solution" to webcasters. They announced at a House subcommittee. Hearing (and in a synchronized press release) an offer to limit the CRB. What good does it do P...
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Radio 2020: June 2006
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RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter" Publisher (and AccuRadio CEO) Kurt Hanson tries to figure out how the radio and music industries can work together for their mutual success. Thursday, June 22, 2006. 53 Corinne Bailey Rae / Capitol. Sales this week: 14,892. Cume: 1,568,447. Housewife word of mouth is slow. Shit, the way this album is moving it could be the new "Dark Side Of The Moon"! Well, not really. But this could sell for YEARS! Lefsetz on "Memory Almost Full". Think ALL NEW MUSIC SUCKS! This busi...
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Radio 2020: What do consumers want?
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RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter" Publisher (and AccuRadio CEO) Kurt Hanson tries to figure out how the radio and music industries can work together for their mutual success. Sunday, June 17, 2007. What do consumers want? Of course, this is reported. Listening, not actual listening, which might be somewhat higher. But still, let's assume this number is largely, with a certain margin of error, true. So, what does that tell us? Of Internet radio listening is to the Internet-only channels. Big radio make...
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Radio 2020: The Price is Wrong
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RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter" Publisher (and AccuRadio CEO) Kurt Hanson tries to figure out how the radio and music industries can work together for their mutual success. Tuesday, May 22, 2007. The Price is Wrong. Why are they doing this? Because they're lawyers, not marketers! And to a workman with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.). I'll add a link to the Dust-Up essay HERE soon. Meanwhile, an Answer is starting to form in my mind. Let me try a rough draft:. August 28, 2010 at 2:59 AM.
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Radio 2020: Nine days left
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RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter" Publisher (and AccuRadio CEO) Kurt Hanson tries to figure out how the radio and music industries can work together for their mutual success. Friday, July 6, 2007. Meanwhile, record sales are in free-fall. CD sales fell from 256 million units in the first six months of 2006 to only 205.7 million in the same period of this year, a 19.3% drop. But that's down 50 million CDs and up only 9 million digital albums, so it's a net-downward trend. The outlook is decidedly blue.
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Radio 2020: "Big radio makes a grab for Internet listeners"... or does it?
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RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter" Publisher (and AccuRadio CEO) Kurt Hanson tries to figure out how the radio and music industries can work together for their mutual success. Sunday, June 17, 2007. Big radio makes a grab for Internet listeners". or does it? A big story on the front page of the Arts section of The New York Times last week said:. Determined to corral the next generation of listeners.". But the details in the story didn't support its thesis. What does that mean? Live chat rooms. Blog...
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Radio 2020: June 2007
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RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter" Publisher (and AccuRadio CEO) Kurt Hanson tries to figure out how the radio and music industries can work together for their mutual success. Monday, June 18, 2007. Welcome to Radio 2020, the blog. Early experiments with structures like LMAs were precursors of consolidation. And so forth. In just a similarly few years from now, the year 2020 is going to be here. What do we know or reasonably suspect radio is going to be like then? HD Radio will be dead or at best limpi...