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Salon.com August 6, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
More waves in the radio business Is corporate behemoth Clear Channel behind the latest shakeup? |
Salon.com March 14, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Pay for play Why does radio suck? Because most stations play only the songs the record companies pay them to. And things are going to get worse... |
Salon.com August 8, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Suit: Clear Channel is an illegal monopoly A tiny Denver promoter is taking the most powerful force in the music industry to court... |
Salon.com June 5, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
The "Bootylicious" gambit Can a hot new single from Destiny's Child help Columbia Records crack the indie promoters' control of pop radio? |
Salon.com June 25, 2002 Eric Boehlert |
Will Congress tackle pay-for-play? Radio-station owners are shocked -- shocked! -- as the music industry's payola scandal widens. Record-label execs aren't buying it (and neither should you). |
Salon.com August 7, 2002 Eric Boehlert |
The empire strikes back As the music industry's "pay-for-play" scandal deepens, the big five record labels try to crush the expanding power of the dreaded indie promoters. |
Salon.com August 7, 2002 Eric Boehlert |
Radio's titan hits the skids After replacing a high-profile exec, Clear Channel, the 800-pound gorilla of the entertainment industry, suddenly faces a lot of banana peels. |
Salon.com April 30, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Radio's big bully Dirty tricks and crappy programming: Welcome to the world of Clear Channel, the biggest station owner in America... |
Salon.com August 8, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Rock 'n' radio rumble A dust-up involving Clear Channel and a Blink-182 concert in Cincinnati doesn't seem to be an isolated event... |
Salon.com May 30, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Tough company Clear Channel is as big as NBC or Gannett. Chances are it owns a half-dozen radio stations in your town. And it's fighting employee suits alleging everything from broken contracts to sexual harassment. |
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Eric Boehlert |
Record companies: Save us from ourselves! With payola up but profits down, labels are wondering if paying $100 million to middlemen "fixers" is still a swell business idea... |
Salon.com July 24, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Payola City In the wild world of urban radio, money buys hits -- and nobody asks questions... |
Salon.com April 3, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Fighting pay-for-play Sources in the music industry call for a federal clampdown on the new payola... |
Wired January 18, 2008 Brendan I. Koerner |
Why Things Suck: Radio The FM band between 92.1 and 107.9, where commercial stations reign, is mostly a desert of robo-DJs and pop pabulum. |
Salon.com March 27, 2002 Eric Boehlert |
Washington tunes in Critics accuse Clear Channel of shady radio deals and nasty concert business. Now the government is starting to pay attention... |
Salon.com November 20, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Is Clear Channel playing a "shell game"? Critics of the radio-industry giant charge that it is skirting federal ownership rules with puppet competitors... |
The Motley Fool November 29, 2011 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Sirius XM and Pandora Better Watch Out Radio giant Clear Channel announces that the iHeartRadio customized stations that it rolled out two months ago will continue to be commercial-free through the end of March. |
The Motley Fool July 11, 2011 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Does Clear Channel Have a Shot at Pandora and Sirius XM? Clear Channel takes a viral -- and vital -- shot at entrenched radio darlings with its iHeartRadio app. |
Salon.com October 1, 2002 Todd Spencer |
Radio killed the radio star Consolidation has resulted in 10,000 layoffs, the demise of a beloved trade magazine, and a decline in programming quality. But industry execs are fat and happy. |
Popular Mechanics September 16, 2008 Glenn Derene |
Is the Music Industry Trying to Kill Modern Internet Radio? Why the creator of Pandora might have to shut down and whether Apple or Microsoft will have to bail out the Web's favorite personalized music service, even as they unveil their own. |
Reason December 2004 Jesse Walker |
Liberal Demographic Clear Channel turns left: American broadcasting is a government-protected cartel, not a free market. But even a distorted market needs consumers, and if an underserved group of listeners is big enough, someone will notice them. |
The Motley Fool March 10, 2006 Adrian Rush |
XM: The Sounds of Salesmen? Clear Channel's insistence on XM ads is a reminder of why traditional radio is in decline. |
The Motley Fool May 15, 2008 David Lee Smith |
Clear Sailing for Clear Channel After months of wrangling, it looks like Clear Channel's as good as gone, as it's buyout by private equity firms finally seems to be happening. |
InternetNews March 7, 2008 |
CBS, AOL Combine Online Radio Networks New and old media take to the airwaves in joint Web radio venture. |
Popular Mechanics September 22, 2009 Seth Porges |
In Defense of FM Radio on MP3 Players Yes, Apple has pushed me back into FM radio. |
Salon.com June 19, 2002 Gary Dretzka |
Satellite radio to the rescue Corporate dreck dominates the FM airwaves like never before, but hope for music lovers may finally have arrived. |
The Motley Fool December 22, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Sirius XM 1, Citadel 0 Citadel's bankruptcy is only the latest step down for terrestrial radio. |
The Motley Fool July 7, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Last Big Radio Deal It may be all downhill for Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, and the rest of the broadcasting world's talk show stars. |
The Motley Fool February 25, 2008 David Lee Smith |
Clear Channel Is Anything But Radio giant Clear Channel has been heading for a buyout by private-equity firms for nearly a year. Amid a mounting credit crunch, there's rampant skepticism that the deal will even get done. |
Salon.com July 25, 2000 Mark Schapiro |
The day the music died The merger of America's largest concert promoter with its largest radio station owner will mean Pringles, payola and more Top 40 from coast to coast. |
The Motley Fool March 8, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
XM Ads It Up Clear Channel wins a dispute requiring that its XM channels include advertising. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool May 20, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Music's 2010 Overture If traditional radio and the major record labels want to matter in five years, they better make some changes. |
Inc. December 1, 2009 Adam Baer |
The Best New Wi-Fi Radios Wi-Fi radios have caught flak for getting spotty reception and being tricky to set up. Here are four new models that are not only easier to use but also benefit from stronger Internet radio signals and improved wireless connectivity. |
The Motley Fool January 11, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Music for the Masses Sony, the fourth and final major music label to offer downloadable tunes in the unshackled MP3 format, will be available in the virtual aisles of Amazon.com later this month. |
PC Magazine May 2, 2008 Brian Heater |
Radio 2.0 Although many people are still tied to terrestrial radio, a new era is on the horizon. Wi-Fi radio lets you listen to Internet stations on any Wi-Fi-enabled device, not just your laptop. |
BusinessWeek May 1, 2006 Tom Lowry |
From Vanilla To Full Metal Racket Clear Channel is racing into the Digital Age with an array of high-def niche channels. |
The Motley Fool September 1, 2011 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
4 Dates to Circle in September It's going to be a telltale month if you know what to look for in stocks and in earnings reports. |
Wired March 2005 Charles C. Mann |
The Resurrection of Indie Radio FM never sounded so freaking good. How the coming digital boom - and Big Radio's bottom line - is driving the new golden age of multichannel, microniche broadcasting. |
The Motley Fool July 19, 2010 Mac Greer |
The Real Threat to Sirius XM? In this third part of our four-part series, Sirius Buzz writer Spencer Osborne discusses what is the biggest danger to the future of Sirius XM? Is it Apple's iTunes, terrestrial radio, or Internet radio? |
Job Journal January 18, 2009 Janet White |
Get the Job by Having It Traditional job hunting is all about the process of getting hired, but a job-search expert suggests a more transcendent approach: Get the job of your dreams by thinking, speaking and acting as if you already have it. |
The Motley Fool August 22, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
Putting Pandora Back in the Box Who wins when you kill the innovators? |
The Motley Fool November 21, 2011 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Sirius XM Hops On the Crazy Train The satellite radio monopoly warms up to Ozzy Osbourne. |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2005 Kelvin Taylor |
Clear Channel Changing Its Tune Clear Channel is betting that HD radio will give consumers what they're looking for. |
PC Magazine February 1, 2008 Alan Henry |
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BusinessWeek February 23, 2011 Brad Stone |
Michael Robertson Bucks the Music Industry Again The San Diego entrepreneur's latest: DAR.fm, a digital audio recorder that downloads songs from radio. |
The Motley Fool March 4, 2011 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Sirius XM Pulls an All-Nighter The satellite radio provider will be launching Tiger Blood Radio, a short-lived channel devoted entirely to the Charlie Sheen saga that has blown up over the past week. |
AskMen.com Greg Yates |
How To: Become A Recording Artist - Part II Advise on getting a record deal and becoming a professional recording artist. Learn about marketing, distribution, legal representation, management, and most importantly, record labels. |
The Motley Fool May 5, 2006 Amanda Tyler |
Radio One Fine-Tunes Strategy The broadcaster takes a first-quarter beating but still tops guidance. Investors, watch for the company to focus more on its Internet business and strengthen its station portfolio with more acquisitions. |
InternetNews October 1, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
11th Hour Save for Internet Radio Bill that would spare Internet radio stations a 70 percent royalty rate is headed for the President's desk. |
The Motley Fool June 7, 2010 |
United Airlines Switches to Microsoft Zune Channels United Airlines has just started to replace Sirius XM Radio with Microsoft's Zune channels. |