- Oprah helps Buble debut at #1 on US album chart
- CRTC favours single tariff for radio and copying for personal use
- Four year deal with Yangaroo allows Grammy judges to vet online
- Flutist Robert Cram first recipient of $20K OAC award
- Liverpool Ukulele Ceilidh Society granted $3K by Heritage
- Canadian Laliberte preaches water conversation from on high
- Today’s CRTC corrections, approvals and notice of consultation
- International
- Global performance rights revenue up 16% in ’08
- Hollywood bigwigs beamed in testimony for iiNet trial
- McCartney. Coldplay, Universal top ASCAP songwriter awards
- PRS backs down after threatening to silence singing shop gran
- Guy Hands personal fortune withers by £250M in one year
- Technology/Marketing/Media
- FM app for iTouch, iPhone feaures integration with iTunes
- Wal-Mart US launches no-contract phones
- Microsoft considering Zune software for Macs
- Facebook, Twitter see growth as MySpace declines
- Shazam mobile song identifier wins KPCB funding
- 77% of Americans blame media for making economic crisis worse
- Libertarian coalition opposes Performance Rights Act
- Microsoft calls for global data technology rules
- WSJ to supplant USA Today as nation’s top selling newspaper
- Talent/Features
- Paris Records, a cornucopia of American alt culture
- Audio: Sophie Tucker cylinder discs restored on new CD anthology
- Edwyn Collins wins WMG dispute, but acrimony remains
- LA Times: Michael Buble’s ‘Crazy Love’ pleasant but vanilla
- ABC: Buble beats Kiss to #1 on US album chart
- Time: Britney Spears triumphant after devastating fall
- Audio: Canada’s Tia McGraff captures US heartbreak with ‘Angry Eagle’
- Minnelli joins Babs in Sex & the City sequel
- Bon Jovi is NBC’s artist in residence for two months
- Audio: Winehouse protege offers oodles of retro sauce
- Sex Pistols to sue over ‘God Save the Cream’ ad campaign
- Obituaries
- Pop culture icon, ‘Captain’ Lou Albano, aged 76
Today’s headlines, October 15
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