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Traditional
and Internet radio programmers and managers have their
choice of what look to be insightful,  educational
experiences: the National
Association of Broadcasters's "Internet@The
NAB Radio Show" and Gavin
Magazine's "Gavin.com
Music on the Net." The "choice" part
comes in because the conferences are at the same time (the NAB is
September 20-23, Gavin September 20-22).
Internet@The
NAB Radio Show is a "show-within-a-show," as
it's part of the larger broadcaster trade association's convention.
Among the scheduled 16 panel discussions, some of the most vital
seem to be:
- New
Media & Autos: Is the Free Ride Over? Representatives of the
satellite broadcast and radio hardware industries discuss the
new competition of satellite and Internet radio in cars.
- Streaming:
What’s In It for My Station? The strategic and marketing issues
surrounding streaming your radio station on the Internet.
- Can Radio
Survive the Broadband Revolution? Representatives of Arbitron
and Coleman Research will show what they found in their study
of households with broadband access and how their behaviors and
attitudes compare with "normal" radio listeners.
- The Internet,
The Law and You Legal experts have advice for broadcasters
on their Internet activity, such as music copyrights.
Over at
the Gavin show, things appear to be a little bit more music-oriented.
Some highlights for radio:
- Radio
vs. New Media: A Fight to the Finish? RAIN's Kurt
Hanson is one member of a panel
which will examine how evolving new technologies might impact
the “old media” world of radio.
- The First
Annual Wammy Awards New awards to recognize excellence and
achievement in music on the Internet.
- Radio:
Competing on the Net Execs from traditional and Internet radio
provide some practical solutions for stations.
We hope
to provide you with reports from both of these shows next week
in RAIN. You can register for either of these events online
-- for the NAB, here;
for Gavin.com, here.
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From CyberAtlas: "Streaming media players and instant
messaging software have become common components
on most home computers in the US, according to a report by PC
Data.
"The 'Home PC Portrait' found that nearly 79
percent of home Internet users
have installed streaming media players on their computers.
Real Player, the leading brand
is installed on 80.8 percent of home PCs. Microsoft's
Windows Media Player is second
with 55.3 percent...
"Another Internet application that has seen its name
all over the news recently, is also seeing an increase
in popularity. The Napster
application climbed from 1.1 million unique users at home in February
of 2000 to 4.9 million unique users in July, a
345 percent increase, according to Media
Metrix. Napster use also grew at work: from 417,000 unique
users in May 2000 to 887,000 US users in July."
Read the entire CyberAtlas piece here.
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Michel Marriott for the New
York Times has written a very nice article on a few of the
new consumer jukeboxes. 
The idea behind these products is to make it easier to listen to
your music by storing and sorting the selections from your unwiedly
CD collection or hard drive that's overrun with digital files.
Here are the products:
-- "The AudioReQuest ARQ1 Digital
Music System by
ReQuest
Multimedia, at $800...is designed
primarily to copy songs from CD's (it can also copy from cassette
tapes and vinyl records), translate their tunes into MP3 files,
store them and play them. Introduced this year, (it) can hold up
to 320 hours of music if the songs are recorded at the near-CD-quality
bit rate of 128 kilobits per second. To take full advantage of the
AudioReQuest's best features, you need to link it to a home stereo
system, an Internet- linked PC and a television set...
-- "The
only device I tested that is truly tempting was made by Creative...its
Nomad Jukebox ($500),
introduced this month, is a portable music player about the size
of a portable CD player, but it is heavier and holds the equivalent
of 150 CD's of music. What it does, once linked to a PC or Mac by
way of a U.S.B. cable, is store more than 100 hours of MP3 music
files on its six- gigabyte, shock-resistant hard drive.
-- "The Escient
TuneBase 100 ($3000)...plugs into an Internet connection,
a CD changer holding 100 or more CD's and
a television, or an optional $2,000 L.C.D. touch-screen controller.
Drawing upon PC technology, the TuneBase locates a unique identification
code for each CD and automatically goes online to the Compact
Disc Database, which contains all the information
a CD would ordinarily display on its cover, like the name of the
artist, the song titles, album cover art and liner notes. That information
is then downloaded into the TuneBase's hard drive and shown on any
display screen connected to the system."
Read the entire New York Times article here.
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| September
20-22 |
Gavin.com:
Music on the Net, San Francisco |
| September
20-23 |
NAB
Radio Show, San Francisco |
| Sept.
29-Oct. 1 |
MOBE/Internet
& Technology, Chicago |
| October
5-7 |
Billboard/Airplay
Monitor Seminar, New York |
| October
9-12 |
QuickTime
Live! Conference,
Beverly Hills |
| October 10-12 |
Streaming
Media Europe 2000, London (NEW!) |
| November
5-7 |
NAB
European Radio Conference, Berlin
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| November 12-14 |
Canadian Association of Broadcasters
(CAB) "Broadcasting 2000: On-air / On-line," Calgary
(NEW!) |
| Nov.
28-Dec. 1 |
Radio
Ink Internet Conference, Santa Clara, CA, featuring
a brand-new national study on Internet radio usage presented
by Eric Rhoads & Kurt Hanson |
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