 RAIN 02/06: AccuRadio debuts genre-specific websites for jazz and indie rock ·Feb 6, 12:04 PM ACCURADIO DEBUTS ACCUJAZZ.COM AND FUTURE PERFECT RADIO.COMAccuRadio spun off two of its most popular Internet radio channels as their own dedicated genre-specific websites this week.
AccuJazz features 24 channels of jazz based on categories such as style, instrument, region, composer and decade. Examples include “Piano Jazz,” “New Orleans,” and “‘50s Jazz,” with the promise of an additional channel launching weekly. Find AccuJazz here. Future Perfect Radio boasts 26 channels of indie music, including genre- and region-specific channels such as “Twee-Pop” and “The Big Apple.” The programming features five new bands each week, with interviews, tour dates and videos for those bands as well. Find Future Perfect Radio here. Both AccuJazz and Future Perfect Radio also offer customization tools like pause and skip functionality and artist deselection. AccuRadio is produced by the same team that brings you RAIN each day, and uses the underlying technology of Slipstream Radio. Note also, in the spirit of working cooperatively with copyright owners, that both websites have a very strong component of promoting new and independent artists and labels. JOIN KURT HANSON AND OTHERS FOR DINNER IN SAN JOSE ON MONDAY! If you’re planning to attend Radio Ink’s ConVergence ’09 conference next Monday and Tuesday in San Jose, you’re invited to join a group of RAIN readers who are planning to meet up for dinner on Monday night, tentatively at the Los Gatos Brewing Company (a well-reviewed, local, non-chain restaurant just a 15-minute drive from the Dolce Hayes Mansion). RSVP to kurt@kurthanson.com.
FORBES: MUSIC INDUSTRY MAKING A SMART MOVE BY KILLING NET RADIO WITH ROYALTIESAccording to some of the major labels, concert promoters and Wall Street analysts polled by Forbes, the music industry is making the right move for survival by pushing for Internet radio royalties, “Though this may kill Internet radio, it sets a precedent for publishers receiving a cut for the use of the music they own regardless of the medium,” writes David K. Randall in Forbes. Read what else the industry is allegedly doing “right” at Forbes.com. RAIN ANALYSIS: The article is ludicrous! First, the author incorrectly states that it’s the $7 billion music publishing industry that is behind these new royalties. It isn’t. Second, the precedent he’s talking about was established years ago and does not require webcaster-bankruptcy-level rates to stay established. Third, if in fact high royalty rates do kill Internet radio, that would probably hurt the industry’s chances of getting Congress to extend the royalty to terrestrial radio, not help. — KH
DiMA CHIEF: PERFORMANCE ROYALTY “PARITY” SHOULD BE “TECHNOLOGICALLY NEUTRAL”DiMA’s executive director Jon Potter was among those reacting to the reemergence of legislation calling for a broadcast radio performance royalty (RAIN coverage here). “If establishing ‘parity’ is Congress’ goal, then the final legislation should be technologically neutral and should thereby ensure that internet radio is no longer disadvantaged compared to other radio platforms,” he said. Read more reactions to the proposed legislation at Digital Music News here.PANDORA HIRES EX-AOL DIRECTOR AS VP Pandora has hired Brian Mikalis as vice president of performance sales. Mikalis was previously director of business development at advertising technology company AdReady, and was director of AOL business development prior to that. For more, read Pandora’s press release here.
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