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KURT HANSON
According to industry reports, Internet-only radio station FastBand
GlobalCast is scaling
down its  daily
Bourbon Street Internet broadcast.
COO Lynn Yeldell confirmed to RAIN taht full-time jocks and
Executive Producer David Ervin have been let go and that two
other full-time producers positions have been eliminated.
All Access reported
yesterday that "FastBand's Digital Recordings division in Los
Angeles had changes too as record producer Paul Fox and his
staff exit." Yeldell said she could not speak to that point.
As to All Access' report of an immediate reduction to their GlobalCast
live on-air hours from 24/7, to noon-midnight weekdays,  Yeldell
told RAIN that the station would continue to broadcast 24/7,
but that the hours of live, on-camera jocks would be at least temporarily
scaled back.
She confirmed that "New Orleans-based comedian and GlobalCast
overnighter Dan Rosenberg will stay with FastBand launching
a comedy oriented site at HumorVision.com."
More from Yeldell tomorrow in RAIN. Read more from All
Access here (registration
required).
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...
Click here
to read RAIN's May 5th issue, in which FastBand
GlobalCast was the "RAIN Internet Audio Site
of the Day."
Although it would have been cool if they could have gotten
 around
to actually broadcasting different dayparts from studios around
the globe (and perhaps they still will), their current plan
-- "We'll point a webcam at daytime pedestrian traffic
on Bourbon Street while playing obscure Brit pop, and then jocks
will talk a lot between records" -- may not be a formula
that is drawing massive audiences.
And, jeez, how many different initiatives did they have
going simultaneously?! A Digital Recording division in Los Angeles...plus
some kind of international TV production effort called InterVision...plus
the humor channel...
That lack of focus kind of sounds like a recipe for trouble,
doesn't it?
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Band starts Website urging
Napster sabotage
From the Wall Street Journal: The war against Napster is going
guerrilla. An Oakland rock band has started a Web site, stopnapster.com,
that urges people to sabotage the controversial service by mislabeling
songs posted to the music-sharing service. The band, the Tabloids,
also calls for releasing songs into Napster that have antipiracy speeches
inserted randomly into the music... Read the story in MSNBC.com
here.
Intel introduces Web appliance
From Excite News: Intel Corp.on Thursday unveiled its first
so-called Web appliance, which gives consumers a built-in phone, Internet
access and e-mail, in the company's latest move beyond its core business
of microprocessors for personal computers. The No. 1 semiconductor
maker said the Intel Dot.Station Web appliance would be offered by
Internet service providers, most likely as part of an overall service
package similar to those for cable TV set-top boxes or cell phones.
Designed by Intel, the device would be built by overseas consumer
electronics manufacturers. It will run on the upstart Linux operating
system that has emerged as a rival to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software.
Read about it in Excite News here.
Ex-record exec named COO of Napster
From Streaming Magazine: Napster announced that Milton Olin
has been appointed its Chief Operating  Officer.
Mr. Olin comes to Napster from another Internet startup company, FirstLook.com,
where he was Senior Vice President of Business Development. Prior
to that, Mr. Olin was Senior Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs
for A&M Records. Mr. Olin was previously a partner in the Los Angeles
law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp. Read the piece in Streaming
Magazine here.
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"Whenever I start thinking that I am not living up
to my potential, I remind myself of the old farmer and his
fight to the death with the insane pig. It's an exciting story,
and it takes my mind off all this 'potential' business."
Buy
this fine book from Amazon here.
(RAIN doesn't have an affiliate deal with Amazon or
anything. It's just a great book.)
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To read the original piece on ClevelandHits.com,
click here.
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"Korn
into Britney Spears?"
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I always scope
out the "competition" and the ClevelandHits idea sounded interesting,
so imagine my  dismay
(and competitive delight) to discover another fine mess the terrestrial
radio mind declares as internet radio.
Terrible looking site -- so busy I get a headache. Our sales manager
describes it as a trip to Coney Island on a budget. But the worst
problem is that the audio quality is so bad at 28.8 that I couldn't
hear anything. It was buffering so badly that every syllable
was garbled and totally unintelligible. It even timed out on me. I'll
try out our ISDN connection later and see if this makes a difference.
Maybe this is an opening day problem, but I tend to think they're
putting all their money into marketing (and press releases), and absolutely
nothing into content, design, or audio quality. And letting your listeners
program your content? Korn into Britney Spears? Keep
up the good work, guys.
I despair that terrestrial radio will ever "get" internet radio. But
at the same time, I'm delighted that they don't. Give us "amateurs"
a chance to build our audiences!
Wanda
Atkinson, General Manager
3WK
Undergroundradio
Music
as art
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"My
question to Mike..."
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Yesterday, RAIN wrote: "How many salespeople do you have?
And what kind of experience do they have? MH: 'I have four so far
and will eventually replace myself as a sales manager. They have a
little bit of radio station experience. But actually they're more
Internet savvy.'"
My question to Mike: What overall qualitites was he looking for and
how will he measure their success from a sales perspective?
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