Tag Archives: Media

Can you? But Michael Jackson did, according to this report from Court TV: Michael Jackson paid out approximately $25 million to settle a civil suit by a boy who accused him of molesting him in 1993, according to the confidential agreement which was exclusively obtained by Court TV’s Diane Dimond. …

Ryan Seacrest did an interview with the Straits Times (funny name, ha) of Singapore in conjunction with a Sinaporean version of Idol: Now that American Idol is over, how are you feeling? (Audible sigh of relief) Well, I’m getting a little more sleep, you know. It’s balancing two TV shows …

Payola never goes away, it just mutates. And we wonder why the major labels still dominate the radio waves? During a single week in May, Canadian pop rocker Avril Lavigne’s new song “Don’t Tell Me” aired no fewer than 109 times on Nashville radio station WQZQ-FM. The heaviest rotation came …

Talking like a screaming, slashing, deranged libertarian gov-o-smasher, Declan McCullagh of CNET wants to abolish the FCC and offers to dynamite their building himself – okay I made that part up: It’s time to abolish the Federal Communications Commission. The reason is simple. The venerable FCC, created in 1934, is …

As a lover of radio and an intermittent broadcast professional I feel despair at the state of commercial radio today. I heartily agree with this policy statement, just released by the Future of Music Coalition regarding low power FM (LPFM): FMC Statement on Low Power FM Legislation For the past …

The legal and regulatory points are arcane and bone dry, but the implications for the future of file sharing are staggering. A little rethinking goes a long way, it would appear – this is very clever: A former McAfee CEO appears to have found a way around the legal minefield …

With non-media consumer companies getting into the promotion of digitally downloaded music (Pepsi, McDonald’s, Coke, Starbucks, etc), it is interesting that Scotland On Sunday elected to give away actual CDs by hot Scots Franz Ferdinand in yesterday’s edition: FRANZ FERDINAND CD – FREE INSIDE every copy of Scotland on Sunday …

The most interesting aspect of the turmoil that has beset the broadcast media, its corporate masters, the FCC, and the public in the wake of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl slip has been the philosophical arguments either for or against media content regulation. Many have taken an absolute or near-absolute …

Clear Channel has settled with a Denver concert promoter who alleged CC radio stations wouldn’t play songs by artists not playing CC-promoted concerts: Clear Channel Communications Inc. has settled a lawsuit with a Denver promoter who sued the No. 1 radio chain over charges it threatened to keep artists off …

Entertainment giant Viacom has been shaken by the resignation of president Mel Karmazin on Tuesday, and chairman of the Viacom Entertainment Group Jonathan Dolgen on Wednesday. HITS Daily Double has a nice summation of the Karmazin situation: Sumner Redstone’s bombshell announcement yesterday that he will relinquish his CEO title at …