 RAIN 6/22: Dahl to return to radio will daily podcast ·Jun 22, 11:09 AM STEVE DAHL SAYS CBS-BACKED PODCASTS TO BEGIN BY END OF SUMMERVeteran Chicago air talent Steve Dahl, off the air since his contract was bought out by CBS (he was most recently on that company’s Jack FM), has announced via his blog that he’s working with CBS to launch a daily podcast.
“I can’t officially make any announcements about anything, but I’m hoping to have a podcast up and available for your daily downloading pleasure by the end of the summer. I just have to wait for the FBI and the SEC to find my primary investor,” Dahl wrote. The investor bit is in reference to the fugitive David Hernandez and the Chicago Sports Webbio (in RAIN here). “Hat tip” to AllAccess and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on this. Read Dahl’s blog here. WEB MOST POPULAR, MOST TRUSTED NEWS SOURCE ACCORDING TO ZOGBY SURVEYA survey from Zogby Interactive found that if given only one source to find news, 56% of respondents would choose the Internet. Only 10% would select radio. 40% of respondents selected the Internet as the most reliable source of news, compared to 13% for radio. There’s more on the story here.UK SALES CHARTS WILL LIKELY SOON ADD STREAMING SERVICESThe UK’s Official Charts Company (OCC) says it will likely soon include streaming traffic from services like Last.fm, Spotify, and Imeem for the music sales charts it compiles.
The Guardian writes, “The internet has already had an enormous impact on the charts, with digital purchases driving singles sales to 115 million in 2008, compared to 30 million in 2003. 98% of UK single sales are now digital. The OCC, jointly-operated by the British Phonographic Industry and the British Association of Record Dealers, compiles official UK record sales charts, such as the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, and the UK Official Download Chart, plus genre-specific charts like the UK Dance Chart, the UK Indie Chart, the UK R&B Chart, and the UK Rock Chart. Read more here. SPOTIFY’S SIMPLICITY KEY TO SUCCESS, SAYS BILLBOARDBillboard suggests that Spotify’s simple and clean interface and lack of “discovery, recommendation and community bells and whistles” are key to the accolades the on-demand music service has garnered among users and in the media.Spotify is still unavailable to U.S. consumers, but has attracted about 3 million users in the UK, Scandinavia, Spain and France. It is scheduled to launch in this country by year’s end. It comes in a free ad-supported or a premium subscription plan. Forrester music analyst Mark Mulligan told Billboard, “What instinctively looks like it should be a failing is actually its core strength. It doesn’t have the discovery, search and community functionality that we’ve come to expect from the streaming services. But that’s why it just works… it’s so easy to use.” The company also just announced the premium edition will now offer streaming music at up to 320 kbps (what it calls “CD quality”). The free version streams at 160 kbps, according to Music Ally here. Read Billboard’s coverage here. share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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