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Thanks
to all the fine companies
(including those listed below) who agreed to be part
of our recent "RAIN
Vendor Guide (Ver. 2.0)" issue. If
you didn't have a chance to spend time with it yet,
you can access the issue here.
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 TV
Worldwide.com and the International Webcasting Association (IWA)
will produce a global concert webcast to benefit the IWA's Legal
Defense Fund for its efforts to save the Internet radio industry.
Artists slated to appear include The Gerry Beaudoin Trio
with Jay Geils (right), formerly
of the J.Geils band, Signorello, and The Mike O'Meara Blues Band
featuring Mike O'Meara of the nationally syndicated "Don and Mike"
radio show. The concert is scheduled for Monday, July 22 at 7:30
PM EDT. The event will be webcast live via TVWorldwide.com from
the State Theatre in Falls Church, Virginia outside of Washington,
D.C.
Internet radio stations around the country are invited to
simulcast the show. Webcasters confirmed to carry
the show include Radioio, WolfFM, Flaresound, Houndogradio, Twangcast,
Whereveradio, The Megarock Network, and Digitally Imported.
"We are grateful for the contribution being made by
all who are supporting this event and stand by our members' efforts
to bring to public attention the outrageous rates proposed by the
CARP, renewing efforts to reach an equitable solution, whether it
is through
negotiation or legislative relief," said Susan
Pickering, Executive Director of the IWA, in a press
release.
TV Worldwide is a global Internet broadcaster and streaming
media service provider. Last May TV
Worldwide streamed and archived video from the U.S. Copyright
Office's public roundtable on webcasting recordkeeping issues. The
IWA is a worldwide nonprofit trade organization dedicated to the
growth and development of webcasting and streaming media.
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From Declan McCullagh in CNet News.com: "Count Rep.
Rick Boucher, D-Va., as one politico who's hardly impressed
by
a draft bill that would help Webcasters but curtail fair-use rights
[see RAIN coverage here].
"Reps. Howard Coble, R-N.C.,
and Howard Berman, D-Calif., wrote
the double-edged legislation in consultation with the Library of
Congress' Copyright Office and appear likely to introduce it this
month. Coble and Berman were polling their colleagues on a House
Judiciary subcommittee to find out if there was support for the
legislation.
"In a rejoinder written with Rep.
Chris Cannon, R-Utah, Boucher sent a follow up letter
to the subcommittee, concluding the draft bill 'would retard rather
than advance the development of the digital music marketplace.'
The two-page letter viewed by CNET News.com says the proposal
does not correctly follow the Library of Congress' suggestions
made in report last August and should be viewed 'cautiously' by
the panel.
"'We will not be signing onto this version of the bill as
original cosponsors,' Boucher and Cannon wrote. 'But we remain willing
to work with all members of the subcommittee to craft a bill that
actually implements the many suggestions made by the (Library of
Congress) and that would help develop the online music market with
due consideration of the interests of all affected parties, including
consumers.'"
See McCullagh's entire column in CNET News.com here.
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From the Wall Street Journal: "AOL
Time Warner Inc. has begun a search for an executive to
take the helm of its America  Online
division, fueling uncertainty about the continued tenure of Robert
Pittman, the media company's chief operating officer.
"Mr. Pittman has been running America Online since April,
when he was sent to try to fix the division; the unit has suffered
from drastically lower advertising revenues and slowing subscriber
growth...
"The company retained an executive-search firm, Spencer
Stuart, two weeks ago to recruit the new CEO and is looking at both
internal and external candidates, say people familiar with the situation.
These people say there is no short list of potential candidates
yet. To keep the search under wraps, it is code-named Pat, after
AOL Time Warner's top human-resources executive, Patricia Fili-Krushel.
"The search is expected to culminate in the selection
of an outsider, but a "number of potential internal people'' also
will be
considered, one person close to the situation said. One obvious
choice would be Don Logan, the chairman of Time Inc., the massive
magazine-publishing unit. While it's unclear whether Mr. Logan would
take the job, the similarities between the subscription-plus-advertising
formula of a magazine business and America Online are striking.
"Other possible inside candidates include Michael Kelly,
chief operating officer of America Online and former chief financial
officer of AOL Time Warner, and James de
Castro, a veteran radio executive who recently joined
America Online."
This story, from Friday's Wall Street Journal, is
online here
(subscription required).
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From the New York Times: "Looking for a digital music
appliance that will do everything short of teaching you to
play guitar?
"The FireBall, from Escient, can recognize and organize
thousands of CD's, hundreds of MP3 files and dozens of Internet and
satellite radio stations.
"The device is essentially a computer configured solely
for music management. Place a CD in the FireBall's
tray or in a CD changer connected to it, and through an online database
it reads and catalogs the disc by artist, album, song and genre. The
system also obtains lyrics, images of album covers and information
about artists...
"Up to 850 hours of music can be stored on the unit's
40-gigabyte hard drive. Or songs can be cataloged and then  played
from an attached CD player. The Fireball can burn CD's, and it can
download songs to a portable player. Fireball users with broadband
connections can listen to 60 Sirius satellite radio stations free
of charge. (Satellite radio normally carries a monthly fee.) About
40 Internet radio stations are programmed into the system and can
be searched by genre."
Read this entire review here. |
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"Only
ONE copy...for only as long as it takes to perform..."
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You do realize, however, that it would also limit our ability
to save only ONE copy for use on our hard drives for only as long
as it takes to perform it!
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Kevin Shively
Beethoven.com |
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"The
light bulb would be illegal..."
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Stop the Insanity! The technological knowledge and prowess
of most (90%) Members of Congress is the size of the checks they
receive from their RIAA and MPAA Hollywood backers.
Concepts like Consumer Rights, Fair Use, Freedom of Speech
and Technological Development are totally unknown to our Congress.
Had Congressman Berman served during the prime of the great
inventor Thomas Edison, the light bulb would be illegal, stopped
dead in it's tracks by the wax and candle industry.
Public stations
now off line
This is from the SOS:
Save Our Streams website, which focuses the struggle
against thewebcasting royalty rates as they pertain to independent
educational and noncommercial stations. |
| KWJC-MO; WRSU-NJ; WERS-MA; KTSW-TX; WSUM-WI; WSTB-OH; WONB-OH;
WXOU-MI; WZIP-OH; WUTK-TN; KDIC-IA; KETR-TX; WSBF-SC; WRMC-VT;
KSDS-CA; WNYU-NY; WSUW-WI; WEVL-TN; KRCL-UT; WSRN-PA; KXCI-AZ;
WUVT-VA; KSJS-CA; KDHX-MI; WPTS-PA; KBCS-WA; WMHW-MI; KBVR-OR;
KXRJ-AR; WDWN-NY |
| Silenced iM Network affiliates
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Zydeco to the Bone; Nuevo Wave-O; Jazzeteria; Altrok.com;
Celtic to the Bone; Extra Smooth Symphonie; Melancholia; Qawwali-On-Demand;
60s RnB to the Bone; Just Classic Rock; All Top40 Hits; Piecemeal;
Swing Central; Cafe Twilight; Jazz to the Bone; Drone Sickness;
Gospel to the Bone; Truly Cool, Cool Jazz; 400 Years of Hits
Jazz to the Bone; Hot Bubblegum 100; Dream Chamber; Modern A
Cappella; African to the Bone; Hillbilly Radio; Cajun N Country
to the Bone; X-tra Energy Dance; World Intensity; New Orleans
to the Bone; Modern Rock Hits; Rastaman's Reggae
MainLine Rock; Latin to the Bone; House Party; Love Field; Planet
Musiquarium; The Breakbeat Jungle; Succubus; Bollywood; Club
Reggae; Hyperspace; Murder, Betrayal and Redemption; Top RnB
Hits; ChitrapatSangeet; Resonant Radio; Sweet Revenge
Female Voices; Old Dawg Country; EnginesOfReagan; Lovecats;
Muddy Channel; Movie Music; Adventures In Radio; Truly Alternative;
Alt Songsters to the Bone; Spacerant; Trance-ilvania; Vox Radium;
50s RnB to the Bone; Box O Bone's; Digitalis; darcade; Not AA
Radio; Busted Heart Radio; Shuaku No Bi; Hillbilly Radio; Kickin'
Kountry; Cyberspace Sonata; Solvent Loud Radio |
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| July 25-28, 2002 |
The
Conclave 2002 Learning Conference: Minneapolis, MN |
| Sept. 12-14, 2002 |
NAB
Radio Show 2002: Seattle, WA |
| Oct. 1-4, 2002 |
Streaming
Media East: New York, NY |
| Oct. 20-22, 2002 |
NAB
European Radio Conference: Prague, Czech Republic |
| Oct. 30-Nov. 2,
2002 |
CMJ
Music Marathon 2002: New York, NY |
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