Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: box office, Cablevision, digital media, Disney, DRM, EA, ESA, ESRB, Hollywood, Hulu, industry, megaupload, News Corp., publishing, simcity, television, Time Magazine, Time Warner, upfronts, Viacom
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Ten media news items that you might have missed recently.
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Tags: A&E, ABC, Academy Awards, Billboard, Cablevision, CBS, copyright, DirecTV, Dish Network, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, independent film, Kickstarter, music, piracy, PlayStation, Sony, television, Time Warner Cable, Viacom, visual effects, YouTube
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Some thoughts on the current state of qualitative radio scholarship, plus a line-up of radio studies related papers, panels, and events at this year's SCMS conference.
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Tags: radio studies, SCMS
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Ten media news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: advertising, Amazon, AOL, Apple, Barnes and Noble, CBS, Dell Inc, Dreamworks, Grammy Awards, NBC, Netflix, social media, Super Bowl, television, Virgin Media, Xbox
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As various groups rethink drama's place in the "new golden age" of radio, podcasts by The Truth, a group responsible for some of the most interesting dramatic audio in recent memory, are producing a new sense of audioposition.
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Tags: American Public Media, Audioposition, Jonathan Mitchell, Media Convergence, Mercury Theater on the Air, musique concrete, Orson Welles, podcasting, Radio Drama, Radio Plays, soundscape, Studio 360, The Magnet Theater, The Truth, This American Life
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Can an Internet college radio station cultivate a local audience in today's diffuse media environment? Some experience from Louisville's Bellarmine University suggests that a local focus in an online context allows college stations to reach a variety of listeners who have community ties but who are presently located in far-flung locales.
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Tags: Bellarmine University, Clear Channel, College radio, College Radio Day, internet radio, KVRX, local media, WBGU
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: advertising, Apple, audiences, Blockbuster, digital music, Disney, Hollywood, independent film, internet, iTunes, MGM, mobile technology, Nintendo, piracy, porn, Samsung, Sony, Sundance, television, Twitter, video games, video on demand, Warner Bros., Xbox
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A few concerns about open access, and especially about the predatory journals that swim in them.
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Tags: academia, journals, open access, phishing
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, box office, children, China, cloud services, digital media, Disney, Dreamworks, DVDs, e-readers, gaming, Hollywood, internet, iTunes, music, Nintendo, Redbox, social media, streaming, television, UltraViolet, Wal-mart, Xbox
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By broadcasting exclusively online and abandoning space-based FM or AM broadcasting, college radio stations run the risk of losing the local focus that has been integral to the programming and operations of the campus and community radio sector.
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Tags: canada, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, CKUW, College radio, community radio, internet radio, KUSF, local media, public media, radio, WYBCX
Posted in Columns, On Radio | Comments Off on On Radio: FM Campus Radio and Community Representation
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey's co-hosting of the 2013 Golden Globes was one in a number of prominent moments for women at this year's awards ceremony. Some might be tempted to claim that the event helped raise the banner for women. Not so fast.
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Tags: Amy Poehler, Claire Danes, Django Unchained, feminism, girls, Golden Globes, Hollywood, Jessica Chastain, Jodie Foster, Lena Dunham, television, Tina Fey
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What Are You Missing? links back on 2012.
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Tags: box office, digital media, e-readers, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, independent film, iTunes, magazines, music, newspapers, porn, television, Twitter, video games, YouTube
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The Abigael Affair crystallizes the challenges of NPR’s campaign to re-create itself as a fully modern and digital multi-platform news, information, and culture channel, while maintaining its distinctive affective character.
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Tags: Abigael Evans, election, NPR, radio
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Christine Becker attended a media industry forum at Georgia State University and left with thoughts about challenges for both the media industries and academia in Atlanta.
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Tags: academia, Atlanta, production culture, tax credits
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