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The Wires (Oct 8, 2005)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. SDN has no affillition with these stories.Kurt Hanson Oct 6: Just as satellite radio is now throwing a "city-grade coverage" signal over the continental U.S., soon some variations of 3G and WiMax will be throwing a city-grade coverage signal over most of the GLOBE! Still, there is substantial debate over which form of coverage will dominate. Intel (promoting WiMax) and Qualcomm (promoting cell phone providers' 3G data networks) are just two of the major players jockeying for the millions of subscribers at stake through competing technologies. Kurt Hanson Oct 7: WiBro is a surprise contender for mobile high-speed subscribers. Hope it's good enough for people to listen to dfsx while driving. From Investor's Business Daily: "South Korea’s government hopes to groom WiBro as the next wireless technology that will fuel the country’s export sales... South Korea will be the first country to try out WiBro, a mobile version of WiMax... "WiBro has been designed to whisk voice, data and video to mobile phones, handheld devices and laptop computers. It’ll be faster and have a much longer reach than Wi-Fi. So it will work even for users in fast-moving cars or trains. "WiBro, say its backers, will carry much more Internet content than cell phone networks or Wi-Fi networks. South Korea is a good place to test that claim, since its wireless phone networks rate among the world’s best. "If WiBro succeeds in South Korea, that would give mobile WiMax a big boost in the U.S. and elsewhere... "LG and Intel are working to harmonize WiBro and mobile WiMax standards. There are some minor technical differences between South Korea’s WiBro and the mobile WiMax, called 802.16e, being developed by Intel and others... "Samsung, South Korea’s largest electronics firm, has jumped on the WiBro bandwagon. "In the U.S., Sprint Nextel has agreed to test Samsung’s WiBro equipment late this year or early in 2006... "Some observers say it’s taking mobile WiMax too long to make it out of test labs and into the commercial world. Next-generation CDMA networks as well as other wireless broadband technologies seem on a faster track than mobile WiMax. "'WiMax is unlikely to threaten the business models of incumbent phone companies,' said Dennis Saputo, an analyst at Moody’s Investors Service. But, he added, 'WiBro could change our thinking on that.'" Register for a free trial membership at Investor's Business Daily here. Dr. Demento Gets Gummy (Happens October 7, 2005)From drdemento.com:Dr. Demento To Receive Gummy Award At October 7 L.A. Ceremony Dr. Demento will be receiving a Bubblegum Achievement Award, named in honor of bubblegum music, that happy, upbeat style that lit up the pop singles charts in the late Sixties and early Seventies. (Think "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies, "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe, and "Yummy Yummy Yummy" by Ohio Express). The Doctor will be appearing in person at the ceremonies, along with fellow honorees Ron Dante (lead singer for the Archies and the Cuff Links), Joey Levine (Ohio Express singer-songwriter) and Steve Barri (producer of the all-chimp band Lancelot Link & the Evolution Revolution). Organized by Kim Cooper, editor of the book "Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth," the biannual event brings original 1960s artists, producers and industry leaders together with contemporary performers inspired by the bubblegum sound, for a multimedia happening that's as entertaining as it is unique. The ceremonies will be hosted this year by performance artist Kelly Kuvo (as The Bubblegum Queen) and Canadian pop duo Canned Hamm. Legendary marionette artist Bob Baker will present a program of bubblegum and Halloween-themed sketches, and there will be a raffle drawing. Free cake and Bazooka (the official bubblegum of the Bubblegum Achievement Awards) will be provided. The Bubblegum Achievement Awards ceremony will take place at 7 PM Friday, October 7 at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, 1345 W 1st St. in Los Angeles. Tickets ($52 per person) may be ordered online using Paypal from http://www.bubblegum-music.com, or by sending a check or money order payable to "Scram" to PO Box 31227, Los Angeles, CA 90031. The Wires (October 6, 2005)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. SDN has no affillition with these stories.Kurt Hanson: Has the dream of having portable wireless Internet radio come true to the churgin of Clear Channel? From Investor's Business Daily, by James Detar: "All aboard! Wireless broadband is about to roll out of the station. "Digital subscriber line and cable modem services provide about 40% of U.S. households with broadband Internet access...Now, regulators are about to OK a standard that would give people mobile broadband wireless. "A mobile version of WiMax will be unveiled within days, insider Fawzi Behmann said in a recent interview. "Indeed, mobile WiMax might have far more potential than its fixed version. For one thing, there’s hope for faster speeds...Where users must be within 300 feet of Wi-Fi nodes to use that service, they need be merely three to five miles from WiMax towers. "Mobile WiMax will first be in notebook PCs, in 2007, Intel says, and will go into cellphones a year or so later... "About half of the 200 million PCs sold a year are notebooks. Cell phone makers expect to sell about 780 million handsets this year. If mobile WiMax pans out, these products are candidates for WiMax chips. And so are game players, MP3 music players and a bunch of other portable gadgets. For whichever technology wins out, wireless broadband chips could be one huge market... "WiMax is a strong wireless contender, says ABI Research analyst Alan Varghese. 'Is WiMax all hype? I don’t think so,' he said. He points out that it can carry a big load of data, including music, movies and business data." Jack-FM should be very afraid. The simple-minded music directors of Jack-FM may very well be forced to find work managing a fast food franchise soon as they can't compete with wireless portable Internet radio. Read the full story online at Investors.com Also, Read Business Wire: Rapid Adoption Predicted for WiMax, excerpted in that issue of Kurt Hanson The Wires (October 5, 2005)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. SDN has no affillition with these stories.(read more - International Herald Tribune). Today, cheap computers and fast online connections have taken the place of rooftop aerials in cracking the lock on video that was once held by broadcasters and, more recently, satellite and cable television companies. Digital technologies are putting television series, sports matches and other fare onto the Internet, within easy reach of millions of people across the world. TV programming is migrating online, and material is copied and redistributed around the world as soon as it hits the airwaves. The Internet, it seems, is about to punch a hole in the traditional model of broadcasting, just as it already has with the recording industry (read - Media Week). The president and CEO of Clear channel, Mark Mays, says that AM-FM radio is struggling with the competition from the new technologies like podcasts, Internet streaming, cell phones, music downloads and satellite radio. "If XM is allowed to have 150 channels in each market, it is a competitive disadvantage for us to have only eight," Mays told a midday audience in Washington (donwload - PDF). 12 stations in New York and L.A., for a single owner? Clear Channel's Mark Mays says it's time to relax local-market limits in large markets. Mays tells the deregulatory-minded PFF think tank that in markets with 60 stations or more, "there is room to raise the limits from 8 [up] to 10 stations." And in markets with 75 stations or more, up to 12 stations. Read the prepared text of Mark Mays' speech HERE From fmqb.com: Sirius Doubles Q3 Subscriber Growth. On the heels of XM announcing a substantial subscriber increase, Sirius Satellite Radio today announced that its subscriber base grew by a net 359,000 during the third quarter of 2005. That reflects a 97 percent increase in net subscribers over 2004's Q3 gain of 182,000 and brings Sirius over 2.17 million subscribers. Tuned in Dance (October 5-11, 2005)No time for comments, except for Clear Channel to sell some of their underperforming stations to a programmer that can program real dance music instead of that payola crap they keep playing all the time. If you can't compete with Internet, satellite, and mp3, sell your station to somebody who can. Dance on the radio beats dance on the Internet or satellite if it's local and live.
1. Send Me An Angel - Pepper Mashay To receive a copy of our Top 10 Dance Chart email: tunedin@tunedinradio.com *If you know of any stations that would be interested in airing Tuned In Radio, The New Rhythm Of The Nation or any dance artists that want to be interviewed on the show, contact me by phone, fax or email. Tuned In Radio's Top 10 is based on trends, requests, published listings, serviced product and media attention. Check out our website at: www.tunedinradio.com The Wires (Oct 4, 2005)Third-party stories are copyrighted by their respective owners. SDN has no affillition with these stories.From RadioandRecords: Dona Shaeib resigns from KPRI. Shaeib resigns from her role at the Compass Broadcasting Triple A after being with the station, formerly called "Sets 102," for more than a decade. VP/Programming & Marketing Bob Burch, who joined KPRI earlier this year, will add day-to-day programming duties for the station. There are no current plans of replacing Shaeib, but Burch says the station is looking for a MD. |