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...says IRA GLASS, the beloved-by-the-bookish host of public radio's This American Life, "it's a nightmare." Yet after rejecting two offers from broadcast networks, Glass is finally attempting a televised version of his program for Showtime. Won over, he says, by the cable channel's yearlong courtship, Glass is two-thirds finished with a pilot presentation due in June. The trickiest task, he says, is translating the radio stories into a visual medium without creating "that smell of documentary." Oh, yes, and preparing for life in front of a camera, which for Glass meant losing...
Sonically, IDT resemble a number of middle nineties “grunge-lite” acts—Better Than Ezra in particular. But thematically, Bell and collaborating lyricist Michael J. Palmer ’03 channel the spirit of Michael Stipe circa “New Adventures...
Sirius and its bigger satellite competitor XM are death stars to the broadcast-radio industry. Since 1996 companies such as Clear Channel and Infinity (part of Viacom) have taken advantage of deregulation to buy hundreds of stations with the idea of bringing scale--and higher ad prices--to the airwaves. For a while it worked, as industry revenues rose at a double-digit clip during the late '90s ad boom and stations racked up profits thanks to cost cutting. But for listeners, that consolidation brought homogeneity, as corporate playlists suffocated local jocks, and ever more ads were jammed into each...
...Stern brings in the young dudes, it will be up to Stewart to even the scales with women. Sirius appeals to guys because men tend to be early technology adopters and because Sirius has bulked up on pro sports, offering channels for NBA, NFL and NHL games (assuming that hockey returns), and starting in 2007, stock-car racing via NASCAR, which Karmazin lured from XM. Sirius signed Stewart for a bargain $30 million over four years, plus a share of ad sales. It's paid to her company, Martha Stewart Living OmniMedia, in return for a 24-hour women...
...outdone, terrestrial-radio groups are migrating to digital and see cell phones as a content battleground too. The nation's big station groups, including Clear Channel, Infinity and Citadel Broadcasting, are upgrading to enable FM stations to split their signal into multiple, digital streams. That will open up the airwaves for niche formats--all Elvis, all the time--and channels for targeted content like college sports. Digital music channels may also be offered ad-free, for a subscription fee, parrying satellite's advantage. "We're not gonna be on defense anymore," vows Infinity's CEO, Joel Hollander. Like other radio...