Media Decoder Blog: Digital Notes: Royalties for Streaming Music Grew 17% in 2011
SoundExchange, the agency that compensates performers and record labels when music is played on satellite and Internet radio, reported $292 million in royalties. Also, the Pirate Bay add a promotional site.
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Israeli radio in Farsi transmits peace to Iran
While Israeli leaders are increasingly sounding belligerent warnings of a potential military strike against Iran's nuclear installations, a group of Iranian-Israelis are transmitting a different message.Radio ...
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‘Visual Audio’ exhibit broadcasts Anacostia voices via online radio
Archivist and oral historian Lindsay Reynolds and sound artist and educator Rob Peterson are on a mission to create Internet radio as art — one voice at a time. Their project is titled “Radio Transmission Ark,” which, as part of the “Visual Audio” exhibit at Anacostia’s Honfleur Gallery , seeks to catalogue the feelings and ideas of the people of the District’s 8th Ward through interviews ...
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PFT: Super Bowl livestream draws over 2.1M users
As expected, the broadcast of Super Bowl XLVI set an all-time TV audience record. Less expected, but not really surprising, was that the live online stream of the game did the same thing.
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Why Israeli radio transmits in Farsi for listeners in Iran
Iranians in Israel run Radio Radisin, a private, Farsi-language station that tries to build a bridge between Israel and Iran
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