KPFK Radio Show on the Music Industry: Samm Brown's FOR THE RECORD, co-hosted by Crystal Shepheard, focuses exclusively on the music and recording industry. broadcast is from 10pm to 11pm every Sunday evening from KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles or on the internet. Open phone lines allow guests on the show to talk directly with the audience.
Ghost Radio-103.1- KCDX,, Arizona's nonstop oddball rock time capsule - heard as far as 93 miles west of Phoenix, the station owner is a pharmacist who acquired a radio license in Florence.has yet to be interrupted by a single commercial for -- how's this for a nonstop music block? -- more than 18 months. broadcasting that way since at least March of 2002,they're owned by a company called Desert West Air Ranchers,
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists: Flash Intro- Double click back to get back here
AzOz: This Guy is depressed and selling all his music equipment some records for sale and current article links
USA Today:---- Music fans find radio unsatisfying --if this link becomes disabled then click on "USA Today"
CNN: How to kill a radio station from Monday, March 3, 2003
Important articles by Eric Boehlert from http://www.salon.com : Clear Channel's big, stinking deregulation mess - Fighting pay-for-play - Radio's big bully - Payola City - Stuffing MTV's ballot box, - Washington tunes in, critics accuse Clear Channel of shady radio deals and nasty concert business. Now the government is starting to pay attention. - Web radio's last stand, a new ruling involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is set to wipe out independent online music stations More Salon articles on radio consolidation: Introducing Salon's new series on the corporate consolidation of the information industries
Reclaim the Media , StylusMagazine
futureofmusic.org The Future of Music Coalition is a not-for-profit collaboration between members of the music, technology, public policy and intellectual property law communities. Has important current and historical info i.e.-.Radio Deregulation: Has It Served Citizens and Musicians?
San Francisco Bay Guardian article: Fighting media monopoly
Los Angeles Times Archives -1 Document Purchase $2.50 24-Hour Pass (4 Articles) $4.95 Single Month Pass (15 Articles) $14.95 Annual Pass (200 Articles) $149.95 LA Times: Small Record Labels Say Radio Tunes Them Out For their services, the promoters charge record companies as much as $4,000 a song to obtain airplay for new releases, according to promoters and record executives. That costs the major record conglomerates an estimated $100 million a year. But it's a price tag that's out of reach for Third Monk and other small labels.(to get more you'll have to buy it from the archive)- Middlemen Put Price on Airplay 2001 Music: Independent record promoters earn per-song fees, but pay stations for service that avoids anti- payola law [Joe Grossman] is an independent record promoter who spends most of his time trying to get songs played on certain radio stations for major record labels. Grossman has a pact with the radio station under which he pays KMBY an estimated $200,000 in annual fees in exchange for advance notice of songs added to the station's weekly playlist. (to get more you'll have to buy it from the archive)