 RAIN 02/02: Webcast hearing deadline approaches; College radio gets iPhone app ·Feb 2, 12:12 PM WEDNESDAY DEADLINE TO TAKE PART IN NEXT WEBCAST RATE DETERMINATIONPetitions to Participate, along with the $150 filing fee, to take part in the webcasting royalty rate determination proceeding for the 2011-2015, are due this Wednesday, February 4. An original petition, 5 copies, and a .pdf version on a CD can be mailed or hand-delivered to the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, D.C. For more information, refer to the Federal Register notice here (the notice begins in the third column on page 318).
Should webcasters and the record industry reach a settlement on the 2006-2010 rates (the Webcaster Settlement Act gives them until the 15th of this month to do so) — as public broadcasters did — and agree that those rates will carry over to the next term, the CRB rate determination won’t be necessary. BACKBONE LAUNCHES COLLEGE RADIO iPHONE APPBackbone Networks Corporation has launched their College Radio Tune iPhone application today. The application features the IBS Student Radio Network and will automatically add new stations to the app. Oklahoma State University, Goucher College, and Methodist University are among the stations initially included. For more, read the official press release here.
NEW MEDIA AT CHICAGO TV STATION: IT’S “LOVE IT OR LEAVE” FOR NEWS STAFFOne major-market television station is retooling its very workforce as it tries to evolve for a new media age. The Chicago Tribune reports that NBC-owned WMAQ-TV told news producers, writers and editors “they must reapply for new multi-faceted positions, the demands of which reflect the station’s efforts to provide content not just for TV but the Internet, mobile devices and other emerging platforms.” The new positions, with titles like “platform manager and content producer,” are open to outside candidates as well. Read the story in The Trib here.NEW HIGH-END STEREO SYSTEM BASED ONLY ON INTERNET RADIO, HARD DRIVEHigh-end stereo manufacturer Bang & Olufsen has created an “all digital” home audio system using only a hard drive and an Internet radio tuner as its sources. The $5,900 BeoSound 5, Twice.com reports, can connect to “around 8,000 Internet radio stations…” [not including Internet music services like Pandora] “through an aggregation service maintained by B&O.” Meanwhile, the unit is designed to create “Pandora- or Last.fm-like” listening experiences using the owner’s own music library. B&O has developed an algorithm they call MOTS (More Of The Same), “which analyzes the musical characteristics of stored songs to automatically generate a playlist of tracks similar to a user-selected ‘seed’ track.” While other systems will generate playlists based on meta data in “tags” like genre, artist or mood, product manager Dave Zapfel told Twice.com the MOTS system “lets owners of large CD libraries ‘rediscover their music collections’ through playlists that deliver ‘subtle surprises along the way.’” Read more in Twice.com here.
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