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During Sirius Satellite Radio CEO Mel Karmazin’s keynote speech at the Morgan Stanley Global Automotive Conference this week in New York, he told the recording industry he would pay significantly higher fees if it removed music from terrestrial stations and made music available exclusively to satellite listeners, Radio Ink reports.
Of Sirius’s performance, Karmazin said, “over 90 percent of those surveyed are satisfied with service and 86 percent would recommend Sirius to a friend.” He added “that in spite of iPod and other alternatives that exist, 94 percent of people (still) listen to radio in the course of a week and they listen for over 19 hours a week.”
Sirius provides “content that allows us to have advertising and subscription revenue streams,” said Karmazin. However, Sirius’s “commercial-free music stations will be commercial-free. We will not run commercials on our music stations, and the reason for that is when consumers are asked why they subscribe to satellite radio, one of the drivers is that terrestrial radio is running too many commercials.”
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Ad pages during the first…
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However, the…
AMC’s Mad Men snared 16 Emmy nominations, including best drama - the first time a basic cable series was nominated in the best-series category.
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Vogue will follow the lives of three young women as they enter the world of top modeling, pulling video together for a web-based reality series called Model.Live. Clothing retailer Express LLC paid in the low seven figures to be the…
Antiperspirant manufacturer Mitchum is launching a promotion, kicked off in the Pacific Northwest this month, that offers consumers $1 coupons attached to hangers that come from dry cleaners.
This is the third time Mitchum has partnered with EcoHangers - a company…
