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Both the Northeast’s wretched weather and the Ivy League’s stringent travel restrictions artificially condense the conference schedule into one month of exhausting play. The early-season swings through the South are in practice just preseason tune-ups, used to find a fourth starter and actually see some live pitching for the first time in six months. In a league where it’s virtually impossible for a team to receive an at-large berth to the NCAA tournament, none of that matters...
...running an Internet radio station commercial free. From their home in Paradise, Calif., in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, they operate Radioparadise.com a format-busting station that spins a tasteful mix of music ranging from the Beatles to Norah Jones to the Strokes. Fewer than 5,000 listeners tune in during peak times, but fans like it so much, they sent the couple $120,000 in contributions last year, covering the cost of bandwidth, song royalties and other expenses and leaving enough to support a "comfortable lifestyle," says Bill Goldsmith, who quit a 30-year career in FM radio...
...with patchy, low-quality sound. These days about 19 million people listen to online radio at least once a week, up from 7 million in 2000, according to Arbitron. Online listenership is growing at an average 43% a year as more people get broadband connections at home and tune in for content that's unavailable or in short supply on commercial stations, from blues to folk to Al Franken's new liberal Air America network, which is broadcast in just a few markets on the AM/FM dial but was streamed 2 million times in its first week, according...
...radio remains the top broadcast medium after TV for advertisers who want to reach a mass market. Radio ad sales in Arbitron markets are forecast to rise 5.5% this year, to $14 billion, according to BIA Financial Network, a media consultancy in Chantilly, Va. Yet as more consumers tune to stations like Radioparadise, those numbers could slip. Goldsmith's thoughtful playlists are organized by musical theme, moving from, say, a bluesy Tracy Chapman tune to a Latin-blues Carlos Santana track to a rock-blues number by the Hellecasters. He heeds listener feedback and says the only thing he really...
There are flaws on the album—some great songs are left out and the back-up band doesn’t match Reed’s genius—but there is an amazing sense of freshness and timelessness to each tune. Even the often-heard VU pieces offer something different at this point in Reed’s life. In every piece, there is something that hits you, something beautiful, right where the memories...