by Bob Cherry, cybergrass.com I DOUBT if anybody today hasn’t heard of the problems of the music industry. The labels are crying about their loss of CD sales, XM and Sirius radio are hemorrhaging cash by the tens of billions of dollars. Terrestrial broadcast radio’s audience is shrinking. Mom & Pop “brick and mortar” record stores are all but extinct. Continue Reading →
More and more listeners are abandoning AM and FM and going to the unregulated realm of Internet and digital sound. Internet radio now has 60 million weekly listeners. AN UPDATED study by Bridge Ratings pegs Internet radio’s weekly audience at 60 million, with average time spent listening up as well. The study also identifies a trend that other studies have Continue Reading →
North Carolina Writers’ Network 2010 Hall of Fame Inductees THE North Carolina Writers’ Network has just announced the 2010 inductees into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame – a list including two very distinguished historical figures and three living authors: – Walter Hines Page (1855-1918), who worked as a newspaperman, founding Raleigh’s State Chronicle, and as a magazine editor Continue Reading →
New artists question armed forces. The series “FORCES” (by German artists Daniel and Geo Fuchs, exhibiting in Barcelona’s ADN GalerÃa) comes from a research project that brought the artists to question the phenomenon of military and armed forces. It consists in a series of photographs of fighters in unlikely or at least improbable situations: they appear into impenetrable woods, deserts, Continue Reading →