Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For 2006
> An impressive list of artists lined up in Nashville to warn the FCC about the pitfalls of media consolidation. (Hollywood Reporter)
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The end of the year cutbacks continue as new owner Live Nation shows almost 80 people out the door at House of Blues including many of the chains best club bookers and word that the VNU layoffs (Nielson SoundScan, Billboard, Hollywood Reporter and more) won’t end until 4100 jobs are axed.
> The 89 most redundant and repetitive cliches in music(because 100 would be a cliche). (AOL)
> EMI has signed a pan-European agreement with Yahoo!
Music to enable
European consumers to watch videos from EMI’s catalog.
> One tech writer asks if satellite radio has already peaked and postulated that internet broadcasting via wireless could surpass the paid services. (Yahoo Tech)
> Clear Channel is adding on demand lifestyle programming to its web sites including shows aimed at Gays and the NASCAR set. (Radio Ink)
> A new memory chip may mean a new generation of improved portable devices (AFP)
> The Akamai Net Usage Index for Digital Music tracks where and when digital
music is being
consumed on a global basis. (more)
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WORTHY CLICK – See how they do things across the pond. E.M.P. is Europe largest online and mail order seller of rock merch. (click)
