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A new group has formed with the intention of fighting the recording industry’s efforts to gain a performance royalty from broadcast radio and TV, writes Radio Ink.
National Public Radio, Univision Communications, Border Media, Bustos Media and Davidson Media Group form the founding members of the Free Radio Alliance.
The group calls the proposed performance royalty a tax, and says that the victims of the tax would be smaller, specialized radio stations that serve as “a cultural lifeline to numerous religious, Hispanic, African American and other niche communities,” according to a Free Radio Alliance spokesperson.
Other founding members include the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, the Independent Spanish Broadcasters Association and the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, as well as state broadcasters’ associations, including groups from Alabama, Alaska, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and Texas.
All sectors of the media business will suffer from the weakened economy in 2008 and 2009, with a slump in local advertising particularly hurting newspapers and local TV, according to a new projection from Goldman Sachs.
Broadcast nets will experience…
The New York Times is shuttering its International Herald Tribune site; NYTimes.com will soon host the international news normally reserved for its sister website.
The move is not about cost savings, but rather about growth, NYTimes.com general manager Vivian Schiller…
Unilever’s Vaseline set forth on an unusual research project in a small town in Alaska. Setting up a storefront, the company began giving away free bottles of lotion and asking recipients to name the person who had recommended they come…
Meet the Press, the show hosted by Tim Russert for 17 years before his death last June, is beginning to slip in ratings.
Last month, CBS’s Face the Nation pulled ahead of Meet the Press for the first time in two…
Bloggers collectively create nearly one million blog posts each day, and half of bloggers believe blogs will be a primary source of news and entertainment in the next five years, according to Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report, MarketingCharts writes.…
Wal-Mart and Costco reported same-store gains in September, with sales rising 2.4% and 9% respectively. Sales at Target stores open at least a year fell 3%, writes Retailer Daily.
Below, fiscal results from the discount retail giants:
Sales of food and…
