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The impact of radio on sound recordings

At the time of radio’s introduction, the idea of transmitting entertainment and news through the airwaves was revolutionary. New institutions and new business models were developed to take advantage of this technological breakthrough, including the idea of using advertising to support the market, which has largely continued to this day.

Radio grew into a major industry, with a profound influence on the culture and social mores. Although it was later to be eclipsed by television, it continues to this day to be one of the major forms of entertainment, with the average American listening to approximately three hours of radio per day.

Radio stations generate positive values to listeners, as evidenced by the willingness of listeners to spend several hours each day listening to radio even though they have to put up with advertising. Advertisers pay for the right to place their advertisements in radio programming, generating the revenues upon which private radio stations depend for their existence.

We have already discussed the two possible impacts that radio might have substitution and exposure. It is likely that both effects are at work at any one time. The relative strength of each, however, determines the overall impact of radio on record sales.

The prevailing view is that radio play enhances the market for prerecorded music. Much of this view can be traced to the fact that firms in the recording industry carefully cultivate their relationship with radio broadcasters to make sure that radio stations play their recordings. Often, this cultivation crosses over into what is known as “payola”, a pejorative term indicating that record companies are paying radio stations, station programmers, or disc-jockeys to pay particular recordings.

As we shall see, the recording industry underwent a devastating decline shortly after the advent of radio. Even some commentators who assign the cause of the recording industry’s decline to radio’s emergence believe that the major impact of radio on record sales changed from substitution to exposure, and that radio now enhances the sales of recordings. For example, according to the BBC website, The record industry had spent the first twenty years of the century convincing the public that they needed a source of music in the home but they didn’t foresee the possibility that it may be free. Unfortunately, The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) had by the early 1920s started mass-producing commercial radios which, while acoustically inferior, offered a far wider range of news, drama and music. The record companies retaliated by drawing up contracts for their major artists, forbidding them to work for this rival medium. This move to limit radio’s output was doomed to failure as new vacuum tube amplification rapidly improved reception and sound quality. Record sales plummeted.

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Music and teenagers

Teenagers listen to a lot of music, mostly whilst doing something else (like traveling or using a computer). This makes it hard to get an idea of the proportion of their time that is spent listening to music.

They are very reluctant to pay for it (most never having bought a CD) and a large majority (8/10) downloading it illegally from file sharing sites. Legal ways to get free music that teenagers use are to listen to the radio, watch music TV channels (not very popular, as these usually play music at certain times, which is not always when teenagers are watching) and use music streaming websites (as I mentioned previously).

Almost all teenagers like to have a ‘hard copy’ of the song (a file of the song that they can keep on their computer and use at will) so that they can transfer it to portable music players and share it with friends.

How teenagers play their music while on the go varies, and usually dependent on wealth –with teenagers from higher income families using iPods and those from lower income families using mobile phones. Some teenagers use both to listen to music, and there are always exceptions to the rule. A number of people use the music service iTunes (usually in conjunction with iPods) to acquire their music (legally) but again this is unpopular with many teenagers because of the ‘high price’ (79p per song). Some teenagers use a combination of sources to obtain music, because sometimes the sound quality is better on streaming sites but they cannot use these sites whilst offline, so they would download a song then listen to it on music streaming sites (separate from the file).

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Music and radio on the internet

The availability  of high quality digitally compressed music on the Internet has caused waves in the music distribution industry. The sale of music has been a highly centralized activity involving the record companies who record artists, distributors who ship music media items such as CDs, and retails outlet who make music artefacts available to the consumer.  CD prices are generally fixed across geographic borders (government taxes and shipping costs differentiate one region from another). Up to recently the basic purchase unit of music has been a collection of tracks by a single artist or band. Though compilation albums of mixed artists are available, their number are generally low compared to single artist items. However, the music industry does not offer the facility to purchase in-store personally built compilations even though this activity is commonly carried out by consumers using blank tapes and, of late, recordable CDs.  A common off-shoot of this activity is that home-made compilations are swapped or given as presents despite the fact that this contravenes the artist’s copyright.  With the advent of MP3 compression techniques and the ease with which people can now send data over the Internet,  near CD quality digital tracks are suddenly easily available for millions of people to download and store locally. The piracy aspect of this activity is greater than ‘home taping’ in that an unregulated distribution channel (The Internet) had been put in place.  The music industry has little agreement on  issues of digital authentication, or on how to decentralise their sales operations to take into account the new paradigm of personalised delivery over a network. Furthermore, there is continuing debate on the payment system suited to music download. This made us to think twice about above things than we choose Hammerstein Ballroom Tickets.You might choose Chicago Blackhawks Tickets for your sport entertainment and Jeff Dunham Tickets as your safe option to experience musics. Also listening radio is a cheap and effective idea of experiencing music.

Space

The business of radio has been in some turmoil even before the economic downturn of 2008-2009. There’s a lot of consolidation, competition, and less advertising to go around. Add in satellite radio and internet radio to the mix with earthbound stations and the pie seems to be getting cut up into more pieces. The Radio industry will have to look to new technologies and innovation to get healthy again. iPhone applications are one of these new innovations to watch for.

Radio is moving in a new direction with streaming audio on iPhone apps. The mother of all radio iPhone apps would be Clear Channel’s “I Heart Radio” application, which feeds off of Clear Channel’s “I Heart Radio online streaming website of 750+ radio stations. Last count showed 150+ stations streaming via I Heart Radio on the iPhone. But streaming individual stations on a giant aggregator app like this can sometimes be slow with lengthy buffering times.

Another option is for a radio station, either land based or online or satellite to have its own dedicated iphone app. Why be one of hundreds or thousands of radio stations on someone else’s app when you can have your own custom Streaming Radio iPhone app with its own icon on your listener’s iPhone screen? Your radio station gets one step closer to your audience, and your listeners have direct icon access to your streaming broadcast! Add advertising to your Radio Station iPhone app for increased revenue and social networking features to build your listener community. Read the rest of this entry »

Entropy

Radio has proved to be a boon in the arena of information and entertainment. It was very difficult to imagine in the past an instrument like this, through which a person can listen the voice of the people sitting in the remote areas. The popularity of this device can be imagined with the matter of the fact that now you can see this instrument with all the sections of people. With the advancements of technologies, a new form of radio is available to us and it is online radio which is often termed as live radio also. This form of radio is a result of the progress made in the telecommunication technologies. Moreover, you need not required to buy any separate device in order to listen online radio. It can be listened on the speakers of your home or office PC.

Several websites on the World Wide Web provide the facility of live online radio. These can be listened better if you have a fast Int Read the rest of this entry »

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