Thursday, March 11, 2010, 9:26 pm
Archive for February 3rd, 2010
Mary J. Blige and Dave Matthews For the Performance Rights Act
During the Grammy awards, two dozen recording artists signed a petition encouraging Congress to pass the Performance Rights Act, also known as HR 848. The PRA would require radio stations to pay royalties to singers in addition to the songwriters who already get paid.
Sheryl
The business model for the record industry has left them behind. Bad music with a new world of digital and social media spell trouble.
Paul Porter
Industry ears
Music sales took nose-dive in past decade
By Kim Hart
TheHill.com
The music industry’s sales have been chopped in half over the past decade, due to changing consumer tastes and business models.
A report
Cable News Ratings
While Bill O’Reilly continues to dominate cable news at 8pm MSNBC with Keith Olbermann lost 44% of their audience in the month of January. Headline Newss and Nancy Grace soar to number two, while CNN and Campbell Brown continue to trail the pack.
Hopefully real news will reappear sometime this decade, opinion based agendas
