Dive into the archives.
- My trip to San Diego
Mostly, I’ve been listening to Sirius XM as we drove down the coast from Seattle to San Diego. Not that satellite radio is so much better than broadcast. I just like to be able to count on having my classical, jazz, and BBC World Service and NPR channels everywhere. As you can see, I don’t [...]
- I get it now.
Sirius 72, the “Pure Jazz” channel, is an oldies station. Sometimes it takes a while to break the radio code, even if you’re an old radio guy. Matt Abramowitz, the Sirius jazz programmer, told me they’re merely playing the “best” cuts so casual Sirius channel surfers will get a truly great experience if they try [...]
- A Sirius Chat
A couple of weeks ago I got to talk by phone with the programmer who runs Pure Jazz 72, Sirius Satellite Radio’s 24-hour jazz station that, as the name implies, plays classic mainstream modern jazz. Jazz, traditionally identified as America’s only native artform (an assertion that might attract argument from certain other tribes), remains a [...]
- What he said, but…
Jerry Del Colliano is writing about Last.fm today. They’ve just opened up their music library for free requests on demand, with ads. Jerry says they’ll fail with young people, because young music fans want to own their music. Could be. Jerry’s reacting to a Motley Fool commentary that claims Last.fm will kill broadcast music radio. [...]
- News Break, ala MarconiDreams.com
This just in: I’m sitting here listening to Dinah Washington on my computer, from Last.fm. They just rolled out free on-demand listening by artist. Just go to the site and type in an artist’s name, and bingo, you’re listening to that artist. You only get one track at a time, and there’ll be an on-screen [...]
- PANDORA: AN IDEA FOR RADIO PEOPLE TO STEAL…BACK
At one time, disc jockeys were hired for their talent as entertainers, and their love of, and feel for, music. Pandora.com has taken the music idea and run with it. Pandora is the offspring of the Music Genome Project, where musicologists have developed a method of classifying recordings by their musical and performance characteristics. An [...]
- PAY FOR PLAYS; RADIO TRIES TO FIGHT IT OFF.
As long as radio stations have played records, they’ve been paying royalties to songwriters, through ASCAP and BMI, the music publishing collection agencies. Thanks to the storm stirred up by Internet song-trading, the artists and the recorded music industry want to be paid by on-air radio too. Radio, of course, is trying to fight it [...]
- RADIO SCIENCE, OR, HOW GOOFY CAN YOU GET?
This is from Tom Taylor’s Radio-Info.com newsletter, issue of today:
At Edison Research, it’s time for Christmas music (testing). This is an update of the 600-title national test they did in 2004, which Edison says “found that listeners had very strong preferences in the Christmas music they liked and did not, preferences that in many cases [...]
