New York Probes Links Between Radio, Labels
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New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer appears to be searching for a paper trail linking record labels, independent radio promoters and New York radio stations to unlawful business practices.
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Radio frequency identification tags contain more information than standard bar codes and several hundred can be scanned at once.
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Viewpoint: Record labels don't trust us with their music. But they need to retune that thinking, says Lev Grossman
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Big pharmaceutical companies are testing new tracking technology they hope will help them spot counterfeit drugs before they reach consumers' medicine cabinets. By putting tags that transmit radio waves on medicine bottles sent to drug stores, company officials think they will be able to detect fake drugs.
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New music sharing network allows users to amass points by referring buyers.
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(National-NBC) Nov. 15, 2004 - A new government initiative will put radio antennas on the labels of some of the most counterfeited drugs in the world.
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By Jeff Leeds  Radio broadcasters have long been accused of corrupting the public airwaves by accepting bribes from corporate music giants.  But in a pair of agreements disclosed Monday, U.S.
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A new radio station targeting both Israelis and Palestinians takes to the airwaves this week based on a format that pioneered debate between blacks and whites in apartheid-era South Africa.
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There may be a compromise in the works between music webcasters and a group that represents performers and record companies over an upcoming rate increase for playing music over Internet radio.
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British music company EMI Group Plc confirmed on Friday that it, along with others, is to face an inquiry into the promotion of records on New York radio stations.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - EMI Group PLC, the world's  third-largest music company, on Friday said it and other music  companies faced a New York probe into how music companies  influence what songs are played on the radio.
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Eliot Spitzer, scourge of corporate America, has turned his sights on to the music industry. The New York state attorney general is investigating the music industry&#39;s practices for influencing which songs are played on the radio.
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The symbiotic relationship between the major record labels and online music companies is as testy as ever at a digital music conference. Eliot Van Buskirk reports from New York.
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Eliot Spitzer, fresh from rocking the insurance industry, has now asked the music business to uncover the secrets behind how radio stations decide what records they play.
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Whether federal regulators allow Sirius and XM to merge rests on how they view the radio marketplace: Does combining the nation's only two satellite radio companies create a monopoly, or does the growing presence of music on cellphones, computers, and iPods amount to competition?
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NEW YORK - If you've tried to buy digital music online lately, you may have noticed your options have blossomed, seemingly overnight.
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Is the time right for Madison Avenue to pick up the tab for digital music? Listening Post columnist Eliot Van Buskirk takes a look at SpiralFrog.