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From USA Today: Napster, the popular and controversial Internet
song-swapping service, will be  spending
less time signing up members and more time defending its business
practices in coming weeks.
Today, Napster interim CEO
Hank Barry will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee
in a session devoted to digital music. Panelists include outspoken
anti-Napster musician Lars Ulrich of Metallica, MP3.com CEO
Michael Robertson and Roger McGuinn of 1960s-era band
The Byrds.
Other musicians are joining the crusade. In an ad running
in major newspapers today, a group called Artists Against Piracy
cites Christina Aguilera, Vertical Horizon, Sisqo, Garth Brooks
and Bon Jovi and says that when their music is available online,
''our rights should be respected.'' The ad does not name Napster.
The music industry showdown of the year takes place in San
Francisco on July 26, when Napster faces the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) in federal court...
''Napster is a way to preview music, and people who preview
it end up buying more. It's like radio.''
-- Hank Barry, Napster interim CEO |
"It's the artist's right to choose what happens to
his or her material. This is all about spin, about Napster setting
us up against our fans... A company like Napster takes the choice
of what happens to an artist's work away from the artist. It's
called stealing.'' -- Lars Ulrich of Metallica |
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From Radio
Ink: "Feed The Monster" and KCBS-AM, the Bay area's only
all news station, today  announced
they have completed and launched the station's ground-breaking site,
located at www.kcbs.com.
The site boasts several first class characteristics, including
current global news and up-to-the-minute local news, sports scores,
business information, a station program schedule and in depth business
and financial features on specific industries. To complement its
core attributes, the site is highlighted by a number of value-added
features, such as real time traffic, current weather conditions
and forecasts and stock quotes and lookups.
David Kendrick, president and chief operating officer for
FTM Media, commented, "FTM Media is diligently working to provide
select major market radio stations with one of the greatest tools
available today to increase station brand awareness as well as station
revenue..."
Read more in Radio Ink here
or visit the KCBS site by clicking the screenshot above.
(Note, of course, that despite all the site's bells and whistles,
there's no audio feed available to site visitors.)
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Citadel
inks web deal
with Ubrandit.com
 From
Radio & Records: The B-2-B Internet provider already provides
free personalized web pages to a number of Jefferson-Pilot, Midwestern
Broadcasting and Clear Channel stations, but this is the first deal
that gives the Philadelphia-area company an entire radio group. All
180 of Citadel’s stations will be able to offer Ubrandit.com's million-plus
books, music, video and DVDs.
Read more in R&R Online here.
Dotcoms creep up
on 800 numbers in radio ads
From Radio & Records: A just-released Response Marketing
Group study of radio advertising found that 29% of radio ads include
toll-free phone numbers, while 24% include Internet addresses. Some
44% of ads feature both. The study, which analyzed more than 3,300
advertisements, found the next most frequently used response mechanism
in radio spots is a street address (10%), followed by a phone number
(9%).
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