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Click
the blue arrow next to the issue date above to read the
following RAIN news stories from yesterday's issue:
(1) Internet radio growing surprisingly slowly, Arbitron
webcast ratings suggest. (2) RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen
discusses interactivity and Napster with RAIN (Part
2 of 2). (3) Xenote folds. (4) RIAA and OSU call
in police on student for sharing MP3s.
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From Crain's Cleveland
Business: "Newspaper publishing giants Knight-Ridder
Inc., Pulitzer Inc.  and
Gannett Co. have poured $6 million into Everstream
Inc., a Solon-based company that provides music for web sites.
"The money is part of an initial round of financing totaling
$8.5 million, and includes $1.5 million from Everstream founder
Stephen McHale and his brother,
John McHale. The financing round closed Aug. 25.
"Everstream creates online 'tuners' for more than 260
newspaper web sites. Web site visitors can tune to one
of 56 music channels that feature
a variety of music styles, including rock ’n’ roll, country and classical,
while reading the online newspapers or visiting other sites...
"The company expects to be profitable by the end of 2001."
Read the entire Crain's Cleveland Business story here.
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Everstream is also the provider of the programming behind
FMCities.com (see 9/8 RAIN story here).
Other investors in this round of financing -- putting
in an additional $1 million -- were veteran Cleveland radio
execs Tom Embrescia and
Lee Zapis. Zapis is actively
involved in the company and serves on the company's Board of
Directors.
Also note that somewhere in the deal is former AMFM Chairman
Stephen Hicks's Capstar
Partners.
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RAIN
Reader Cocktail Party tentatively scheduled for
Friday September 22, 5-7p. I thought we'd just
meet in the bar at the stylish, new
W Hotel, which is very close to
the Moscone Convention Center. Please let me know here
if this conflicts with anything major.
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From Business Wire: "James de
Castro has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ultimate
Inc.,
the worldwide marketplace for experiences. Mr. de Castro will be responsible
for overseeing all aspects of the Ultimate Inc. business in San Francisco
and New York.
"In addition to his appointment as CEO, Mr. de Castro
has opted to become a major  shareholder
of Ultimate Inc.
"A 25-year veteran of the radio broadcast industry, Mr.
de Castro most recently served as Vice-Chairman of AMFM Inc.,
the nation's largest radio broadcasting company. Mr. de Castro was
also President and CEO of the company's radio group, its largest division,
with revenues over $1.8 billion in 1999 and Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of AMFMi, the company's Internet subsidiary. Last month,
AMFM merged with Clear Channel
Inc. in a transaction valued at $23.8 billion."
UltimateBid.com auctions off once-in-a-lifetime experiences like
a golf game with major sports celebrities, front-row concert tickets
with backstage passes, and walk-on parts on TV programs. (It should
be a nice match for Jimmy's showmanship skills.)
Read the complete article here
and visit UltimateBid.com here.
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Emmis Communications
will unveil their Local Media Internet
Venture (previewed in the 5/12 issue of RAIN here)
with a
formal presentation this Thursday at the NAB
gathering in San Francisco by Emmis's Jeff Smulyan and Doyle Rose.
The LMIV is intended to be an industry-owned network with
large scale resources to provide content, technology, and marketing
to local member station websites. Particpating broadcasters are
apparently to include Emmis, Bonneville, Greater Media, and Jefferson-Pilot,
with a rumored $60 million behind the venture.
Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan and Radio President Doyle Rose will
be among the presenters at the NAB. Look for a full report in Friday's
RAIN.
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From PRNewswire:
"nTunes.com, the leading
e-commerce solution provider for the radio industry, has named
former Clear Channel
Internet technology leader and radio veteran Brian
Parsons as its new president. The move reflects the strong,
steady success of the nTunes business model.
"The company creates and syndicates customized CD and DVD
movie stores, seamlessly integrated into radio station Web sites-turning
e-listeners into e-consumers."
Read the entire
press release here.
BY
PAUL MALONEY
Radio Corporation
of Singapore's 98.7 "Perfect
Ten," is the Hot A/C outlet in RCS's stable. The  company
operates six English-language stations, three in Mandarin Chinese,
two in Malay, one in Tamil, plus a three-language shortwave service
-- pretty much locking up (we assume) the radio market of this city-state.
RCS has also introduced a multi-channel digital radio service
called RCS Smart Radio
which enables equipped users to receive CD-quality signals from a
variety of AM, FM, and satellite-only stations.
Perfect Ten features a roster of cute, young DJs hosting high-energy,
"party atmosphere" shows. The station appears to be very
listener-driven, as the site has numerous
user forms for dedications, requests, and the "Talk Show"
and "Ask Dan" features ("It could be about music, health,
Guiness Book of records, family or even that crush you have on that
cute individual, anything!!!"). Each personality has his or her
own associated page, linked from several spots throughout the site,
 with
pictures and some personality background.
Two of the shows are of the countdown variety, with one focusing
on the British music scene. There's also "Up Close & Personal,"
where musical guests come by the station to perform. These episodes
are archived on the site in their own section.
The span of musical variety here is significantly wider than
on most tightly-formatted American radio stations. Retro
(and announced as such) alternative (Flock
of Seagulls), rock (Creed),
Top 40 (Christina
Aguilera), modern
rock crossover
(Red Hot Chili Peppers), and even
ambient on one of the specialty shows.
Unfortunately, the station doesn't seem to be up-to-speed on
the promotional and "contest" elements of good radio --
at least on the site. But if Perfect Ten could it step up and give
the visitor just a little bit more reason to listen (and visit the
site), they'd be that much closer to "perfect."
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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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