- Want to be a star? CTV posting for CHUM FM afternoon drive host
- Canadian broadband blasted by Harvard study
- CIMA signs first partnership with film production company
- International
- Senate panel approves radio performance royalty
- Judge strikes down performance royalty for ringtones
- DOJ setting strict conditions on Ticketmaster merger
- Chinese authorities crack down on ticket scalpers
- This is it! Sony strikes novel deal with iTunes for new MJ EP tracks
- Music publisher Chrysalis back in the black
- Technology/Marketing/Media
- UK’s Channel Four follows WMG in striking YouTube deal
- Nielsen report undermines paid content lobby
- Radio failing to adapt to social media marketing
- Pandora’s shotgun wedding with the RIAA
- UK ISP argues three-strike proposal vulnerable by hackers
- The cunning genius of public radio funding drives
- Google to launch e-bookstore next year, reports publishers’ split
- Sometimes even free music is not enough
- Media full of hot air in chasing Balloon Boy?
- BBC streaks ahead in multi-platform brand extensions
- Leaked report pegs Nokia’s CMW global sub count at 107K
- Shazam hits 50M users
- Talent/Features
- Fleetwood Mac: Sex, drugs, fear & loathing
- Good common sense conversation with Garth Brooks
- Brit music stars sign on for Children In Need charity
- Lady GaGa rolls out ‘Monster Ball’ tour dates
- Wynton Marsalis to receive France’s Legion of Honour
- Nick Cave offers ‘novel’ apology to Kylie and Avril
- A-ha! A name from the past not slipping quietly away
- Backwood Barbie packages Dolly’s best in 4-CD set
- Thriller leads Halloween sheet music sales
- Obituaries
- Blues guitarist Johnny Jones, aged 73
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