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Friday's issue of this newsletter, in which we
revealed the apparently low AQH numbers of streamed stations
in Arbitron first "InfoStream" ratings results,
drew lots of reader comments.
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If you haven't read Friday's issue, or if you'd like to
review it again, please click the screenshot above.
Then click here to
read several of the most insightful comments from readers.
MP3.com is one of the top music destination websites on the Internet,
with over 3.4 million unique visitors per month -- making it virtually
tied for the most-popular music website with MTV.com, and miles ahead
of the existing Internet-only radio broadcasters. (Click here
for a list of the top 100 websites, as of August 1999, per PC Data
Online.)
CNN posted a story late Friday afternoon reporting that MP3.com
is now about to enter the competition among Internet-only radio broadcasters.
CNN wrote, "MP3.com has launched a service allowing users
to create
their own fully interactive music stations consisting of songs from
the site's database... The system, under which 4,000 stations were
created during its two-week beta test, allows users to pick songs
from the database of 200,000 tunes and 35,000 artists and set up their
own 'radio station'..."
For the full story from CNN, click here.
To visit the MP3.com website itself, click the logo above.
"What is MP3?" It's a compression format
that allows music to be stored on a hard drive or transferred
between computers in about 1/12 the size that was previously
required. (It used to take 20 minutes to download a 3-minute
song in the ".wav" format. In the MP3 format, it can
be done quicker than in real time.) The MP3 format has thus
become the leading method of storing music and trading songs
among Internet users. An excellent introduction to the subject
is available on the CNET website here.
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 According
to the recent press release announcing BroadcastAMERICA's deal with
Nick Verbitsky and Dick Clark's United Stations Radio Network (as
reported here last week; click here
to read the press release):
"BroadcastAMERICA's exclusive partnership to stream the industry
mogul's programming is transforming the Internet into the 'fourth
medium' for entertainment."
The press release continues, "With a variety of network programs
covering virtually every format, this partnership brings popular,
mainstream entertainment online, signaling the validation of the
Internet as the 'fourth medium' of entertainment -- following print,
radio, television and film."
Once again, just like on Friday, it seems to me that there's a possible
math error here somewhere.
 Sirius
Satellite Radio Inc., the digital satellite radio broadcaster,
last week announced "exclusive associations with internationally
renowned recording artists and performers MC Lyte and Grandmaster
Flash, each of whom will have an ongoing presence on Sirius' music
and talk channels..." The company recently announced a similar
deal with the recording artist Sting.
Sirius is the satellite radio company formerly called CD Radio.
The company will soon be competiting with terrestrial radio by offering
50 channels of commercial-free music and up to 50 channels of news,
sports and entertainment programming for a monthly subscription
fee of $9.95, starting in the fourth quarter of 2000.
Click here for the
story from PRNewswire. (Use the "search" feature
looking for "Sirius.")
If you've been enjoying this newsletter for the past week or
two, perhaps you might be willing to recommend RAIN to your
colleagues?
For example, you could send an e-mail to people in your address
book, telling them...
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