R23 Information Services #86

April 30 is the Last Date to Elect Small Webcaster Agreement and for Broadcasters to Pay Past Fees................................... and Don't Forget the Recordkeeping Obligations

Best Buy is reported to be considering allotting...about 200 titles ...of vinyl albums in all of its 1,000-plus stores.
Billboard

MTV Networks Japan Launches Streaming Service
billboard

Tata Communications Reports 50K WiMAX Subscribers
wimax.com

Swedish ISPs vow to erase users' traffic data
cnet

Wowza Media Systems aims to make three-screen service a reality
broadcast engineering

Radio23 Information Services #85

What do you expect? It's talk radio, court says
sfGate

The End of "Reach"
Hear2.0

The Next Leg Of Growth For Sirius XM
satwaves

In a digital age, vinyl albums are making a comeback
LaTimes

Apple and Verizon consider iPhone deal
USAtoday

R23 Information Services #84

Why Radio & Music Industry Sucks Nowadays
YouTube

Analysis: What The IFPI, RIAA Numbers Reveal
Billboard

Radio gets a radical revamp
BBC

AT&T Reports Dramatic Growth of Wi-Fi
Daily Wireless

Smartphone Markets Compared
Daily Wireless

Radio23 Information Services #83

Sweedish Study: 86% Would Pay For Legal P2P billboard

No surprise here: Oprah appearance huge for Twitter cnet

Slow start for Nokia's music plan BBC

KLSX radio cuts the talk, increases its ratings LAtimes

FLYCAST ADDS SONGFLYER FOR TWITTER, FACEBOOK radio inc

AIRtime Fellowship Program Details Announced

APPLICATION DEADLINE: JULY 1, 2009

The AIRtime program provides artists (individuals and/or collectives) with valuable assistance with which to concentrate on new transmission works and conduct research about the genre using free103point9's resource library and equipment holdings. AIRtime Fellowships are awarded to approximately three artists each year. Fellows present their work in conjunction with WGXC, in Greene and Columbia Counties, and our city-based programs at the Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church in Manhattan. Fellows receive an honorarium, and technical and administrative support from free103point9 staff. Participating artists are encouraged to archive recordings and other digital media with the free103point9 Transmission Art Archive project.

free103point9 defines “Transmission Arts” as a conceptual umbrella that unites a community of artists and audiences interested in transmission ideas and tools. This genre encompasses a diversity of practices and media working with the idea of transmission or the physical properties of the electromagnetic spectrum. Transmission art is generally a participatory live-art or time-based art, and often manifests as radio art, video art, light sculpture, installation, and performance.

Radio23 Information Services #81

Handbook on Radio Automation

Stock Shock: Sirius XM Radio Stock Manipulation Movie Trailer

Sirius XM Gets Creative on YouTube

Google tips FCC about new YouTube comment filtering system (digital indecency)

Randomly scanning America's best radio stations on Twitter

Radio23 Information Services #80

Dave Matthews Band Chooses Pandora to Promote New Single

Record Store Day: Come celebrate 'cool stuff' culture USAtoday

Sirius XM Extends Rally, Now Up Over 800% From Lows yahoo

How to Attract "Listener 2.0"

12 Major Broadcasters Hit w/Online Radio Patent Suit

Radio23 Information Services #79

Arbitron/Edison Study: Online Radio Audience Reaches 42 Million fmqb +billboard + mediaweek

Court Rejects Harvard Plea For RIAA Webcast hypebot

WGXC Program Application

Want to do a show on the new community radio station coming soon to Greene and Columbia Counties in New York? Click here to download the WGXC Program Application. Go to www.wgxc.org for more information. Applications due Jan. 1, 2010.

Radio23 Information Services #78

Radio23.org Launch Party @ Bell House w/ Prefuse73 & tons more friends :: April 23rd

Goom Radio Raises More Than $16 Million in Venture Capital to Launch Internet Radio Service

WOXY "signs" Gang of Four's Dave Allen

New platform includes products and services from Ando Media and StreamTheWorld

Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets, and schedule their release.

Radio23 Information Services #77

eBay to launch a Skype IPO in 2010 BBC

Become a great iPD McVay New Media

AT&T Chief Presses to Keep iPhone, Deepen Wireless Push WSJ

Should YouTube pay more? 154 million Rickrolls = £11 ArsTechnica

Digg founder Kevin Rose sat down with Trent Reznor of NIN

Time-Warner bandwidth cap protest this Saturday in Rochester, NY

From Cory Doctorow in Boing Boing:

Adam sez, "There's going to be a large protest in Rochester, NY on Saturday to fight the upcoming "tired pricing" aka absurdly-low bandwidth caps. This is not only anti-competitive, but it will cost local residents significantly more, in an economy that is already hurting. Not to mention deaf folks who rely on video chat for ASL, etc... It'd be great if people would come and show their support to convince Time Warner (RoadRunner) to abandon the plan. If we successfully fight this here, perhaps other communities across the country won't have to."

Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009
Time: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: Time Warner Cable Store
Street: 71 Mt. Hope Avenue
City/Town: Rochester, NY

Radio23 Information Services #76

If record labels can't keep obscure albums in print, why not let bloggers post them for people to rediscover? The Guardian

Cheapest Broadband? Would You Believe Pakistan? Daily Wireless

internet radio love on the wii & ps3

‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers NYTimes

Triton Digital to announce a One-Stop Integrated Mobile Platform for Broadcasters hear2.com

Averting radio spectrum saturation, opportunistically

From ICT Results:

Mobile users want better video calls, streaming television and faster downloads, placing more demands on the limited radio spectrum available to operators. Could handsets that intelligently sense their radio environment and opportunistically grab free bandwidth be a solution?

A team of European researchers believe they could be. Whereas most recent initiatives aimed at making more efficient use of the radio spectrum have looked at spectrum management from the network end, the team behind the ORACLE (Opportunistic Radio Communications in unLicensed Environments) project focused instead on making handsets actively manage how and when they use the network.

ORACLE’s pioneering approach promises to minimise bandwidth saturation in both licensed bands of the radio spectrum, such as that used to carry mobile phone signals, and unlicensed industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) bands – the kind used by WiFi networks and RFID chips.

“With demand booming for new services, both in terms of the number of connections and also quality, we need to find better ways of utilising the radio spectrum available to us… otherwise we will reach a point of saturation,” notes Dominique Noguet, the head of the Digital Architecture Design and Prototyping lab at Minatec CEA-LETI in France and coordinator of the ORACLE project. “We are dealing with a finite resource, but one that can be reused in novel ways,” he adds.

Radio23 Information Services #75

Survey Shows Popularity of Internet Radio, Regular Radio Continues Holding Its Audience

Google & Universal Announce VEVO Channel hypebot

Manage Your Social Networks entrepreneur

HD Radio Crying Out to Be Heard nyTimes

the end of the music album as the organizing principle pamplemoose

Radio23 Information Services #74

How Apple will kill satellite radio this summer

Internet access in Ford trucks. Cars far behind?

Australia To Build $31 Billion Broadband Network

PSP tutorial - Internet Radio feature

Singapore's internet radio streaming dries up

Coup d'etat at WBAI radio

From Edwin Johnston on NYC Indymedia:

Without any notice to WBAI manager Tony Riddle, nor to the governing board of the Pacifica Foundation, the interim executive director, Grace Aaron of Los Angeles, has conspired with some of her appointees to take control of WBAI in an undemocratic process. Here is a link to a reposted statement from Grace Aaron of her super-secret plan to take control of WBAI in NYC. This statement was reposted by Joe Wanzala of Berkeley, the vice chair of the Pacifica governing board. Earlier in the day, WBAI manager Tony Riddle sent out an e-mail to his staff making it known that Grace Aaron had directed the locks to be changed at the transmitter without informing him of any of this. During the day various programmers at WBAI began bringing this coup d'etat to light and members of the WBAI local and national board who are supportive of the coup are calling for those programmers who went on the air to complain to be fired and removed from their positions. All Pacifica stations and affiliates need to open their phone lines for a complete dialogue with listeners to get through this treacherous period.

Radio23 Information Services #73

Groban, Marsalis, press Congress for arts funding

Raise money via Twitter: campaign tools and instructions

Who wouldn’t love having this stackable Radio and Speaker System for Macmini on their table?

Tickets Goin' Mobile

Google Could Be In Talks To Buy Twitter

The Boat That Rocked

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Kenneth Branagh star in this movie coming out Aug. 28 about the UK offshore pirate radio operators. From the film's web site:

Celebrated filmmaker Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually) brings audiences his most personal comedy to date. Writing and directing the story of a band of rogue deejays who captivated British radio listeners in the ’60s, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz, Curtis welcomes us aboard "The Boat That Rocked."

Leading the cast of the new film are Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as Radio Rock’s infamous deejay The Count; Bill Nighy as the station’s owner (and ship’s captain), Quentin; Rhys Ifans as mystic deejay royalty Gavin; Nick Frost as the amorous, sarcastic disc jockey Dave; and Kenneth Branagh as the man out to shut down Radio Rock, Minister Dormandy.

Radio23 Information Services #72

Internet Radio is a Serious Threat to Sirius Radio

Clearwire Transforms Wi-Fi Devices with the CLEAR(TM) Spot Personal Hotspot Accessory

ABC Radio Networks Changes Name to Citadel Media

Billion Dollar Charlie takes on the RIAA

EMI slaps the "idiot-tax" on free music