On-demand Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

How is COVID-19 impacting our demands for entertainment? Glad you asked…

MIDIA Research spends a lot of time looking how how we consume music in the digital age. The company has

Here’s a reprint of a post I made back on July 27. It’ll provide background to the rant that’s to

Things are not well in the relationship between record labels and YouTube. Stories abound (like this one) that labels are

I wish, wish, wish it were possible to make my Ongoing History of New Music shows available for on-demand listening

My wife hates buffet restaurants. “There’s just too much food! Too much choice! Too much waste! Buffets confuse me and

The US Copyright Office has initiated a study into music licensing to try and streamline the process. The current system

Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
Mark Silver