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From the company press release: "Internet broadcasting
and e-services provider GlobalMedia.com
today announced that Barr Potter,
a 22-year veteran of the film, video and
new media industries and a Board Member of GlobalMedia.com, has
joined the company as President and Chief Operating Officer.
"Mr. Potter will report to Jeff Mandelbaum, who retains
the titles of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer.
In his new role, Mr. Potter will oversee the day-to-day operations
of the company. Mr. Mandelbaum will focus his energies on financing,
key customer relationships and raising the company profile.
"From 1994 – 1999, (Potter) was Chairman and CEO of
Largo Entertainment, a leading independent film finance and foreign
sales company owned by JVC Entertainment, Inc...Largo’s fully
financed “Affliction” captured the 1999 Academy Award for James
Coburn as Best Supporting Actor.
"As President and CEO of My Own Channel, Inc. he was
intimately involved in the development of the business model for
a broadband, business-to-business Video-on-Demand ASP. He is also
on the board of, ClassicMovies.com, which has agreements with
MGM and Columbia to distribute their classic movie libraries via
streaming over the Internet through GlobalMedia players. Mr. Potter
orchestrated the deal between ClassicMovies.com and GlobalMedia.com."
BY PAUL MALONEY
According to RadioAMP
Vp of Business Development Charlie Moore, "It's all about
driving 'frequency of use.'" His
company has introduced an Internet audio system of that allows
users to personalize what news, weather,
and sports information they hear, on demand.
Moore says, "The big obstacle Internet radio has faced
is how to develop content that makes people want to come back
again and again. You will build loyalty with 'choice' and 'convenience.'
Together these features increase the number of times listeners
connect to the service and improve overall time spent on the site."
Unveiled at this week's Webnoize
industry convention in Los Angeles, the new service lets users
personalize the
types of reports they hear, and even the order they run. Available
newscasts include "Headline," business and financial
reports, and entertainment varieties like soap opera rundowns
and horoscopes. User can also choose to hear results from their
favorite sports teams (and only in the sports they select), and
local forecasts (again, if they choose). All in all, over 800
newsclips are available, several updated more than once a day.
Content for the new feature is supplied by Source
Media.
Moore explained that these choices are exactly what will
make the service compelling. "The more content we can
serve, music or otherwise, that's interactive and gives listeners
what they want, when they want to hear it, the farther along we
are in producing a winning service."
"We all listen to the radio at different times for
different reasons. This service will break the barriers to interactivity
we've seen. Visitors won't have to go hunting for the specific
news they want every time they log on, and they won't have to
choose (from personalization options) every time."
If all goes to plan, the current "breadth of offerings"
of the service is just the beginning. Moore is confident that
the
backend RadioAMP has built for the site will allow the range of
content and interactivity to easily grow.
The personalized news feature is to debut on AltaVista
Radio and CDNow
Radio, and then appear later on other RadioAMP-powered
services like NBCi Radio
and iWon
Radio.
From the company press release: "Soundbreak’s
"Sweet Spot" music interview program will join iNEXTV’s
original programming line-up to be distributed to iNEXTV’s online
video network of more than 25 million viewers on the Internet..."
iNEXTV is a producer and distributor of video for the Internet.
"'Sweet Spot' is an on-going weekly one-to-five minute
video program of 
interviews
with music industry artists, musicians or personalities produced
by Soundbreak.com, Inc, including Norman Cook - a.k.a. "Fatboy
Slim," controversial rap artist Ice-T, John Taylor of Duran Duran,
Linda Blair of "The Exorcist," Slash, ex-guitarist for Guns N’
Roses and rock band MxPx.
The "Sweet Spot" will be seen on Juno later this month
and through other upcoming distribution deals.
Read the press release here.
From CNet News.com: "Excite@Home and Viacom's MTVi
Group on Wednesday launched a long-awaited
co-branded music channel,
Excite Music.
"The channel was first announced in April with an
expected summer release. It was accessible to the public Tuesday
afternoon and includes music news, Internet radio stations from
MTVi's Sonicnet.com, MTV video clips and sales of legal music
downloads...
"Excite hopes to augment its e-commerce music play
with a more varied offering, including videos that 
are
not widely available on Napster-like file-sharing networks. The
deal also gives MTVi a way to syndicate its content and raise
brand awareness."
Read the CNet story here.
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From InternetNews.com: "
Scour,
Inc., has just announced it will shut down the Scour Exchange
community within 48
hours to facilitate a resolution of pending litigation and a sale
of its assets in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Scour, Inc. filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on October 12, 2000, seeking protection
from its creditors...
"Listen.com offered Nov. 1 to purchase Scour for $5
million and 527,918 shares of Listen.com stock. The Listen.com proposal
was supported by Scour's board and management.
"However, CenterSpan Communications Corp. has now announced
its intent to submit a bid for Scour's assets. If CenterSpan is
the winning bidder, it plans to re-launch Scour Exchange in the
first quarter of 2001 as a secure and legal digital distribution
channel based on CenterSpan's new technology platform."
Read the story
here.
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