By ArticleSnatch on January 19, 2008
MTV has announced that players of its Rock band game have downloaded more than 2.5 million songs since its launch on November 20, 2007. A Metallica pack is currently the game’s best selling music download, followed by three song packs from The Police, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie and a collection of Black [...]
| Tagged David Bowie, MTV |
By ArticleSnatch on November 9, 2007
ComScore said 62 percent of downloaders paid nothing for Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ release, but the band has denounced the report as “wholly inaccurate.”When Radiohead announced their download plan for ‘In Rainbows’, they made the album’s purchase a name-your-price model. Naturally, plenty of people wondered what fans would pay for something when paying nothing was an [...]
| Tagged Andrew Lipsman, comScore Inc., MTV |
By ArticleSnatch on October 30, 2007
During a live dialogue with MTV viewers, Presidential candidate Barack Obama pledged to support Net Neutrality if elected president, and to appoint a pro-neutrality Federal Communications Commission. CORRECTION: Earlier, at the time slated for webcast, Obama mentioned nothing about it, and the question was not asked. Perhaps they meant Central or Mountain Time, but Obama [...]
| Tagged Barack Obama, CNN, Federal Communications Commission, google, Internet functions, Joe Niederberger, MTV, open Internet principles, pop site, Time Warner |
By ArticleSnatch on October 30, 2007
Senator and Presidential candidate Barack Obama (D-IL) was expected to field a question about Network Neutrality today during a live video stream via MTV and MySpace from Coe College, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Doing so, according to supporters would bring the issue to the campaign table officially. If they were waiting for it, they were disappointed. [...]
| Tagged Adam Green, America, Barack Dodge, Barack Obama, Cedar Rapids, Coe College, controversial political action group, Federal Communications Commission, Internet freedom campaign, Iowa, Joe Niederberger, Lisa Simpson, MoveOn, MTV, open Internet principles, South Carolina |
By ArticleSnatch on September 15, 2007
It was strange enough to see Nissan and Yahoo become involved with a series of live music concerts. Now those concerts are being moved from the Web to cable TV, and they will wind up on MTV’s high-definition channel (known as MHD). Nissan/Yahoo Live Sets Move To MTV As we noted when “Live Sets” first [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged Avril Lavigne, Cable TV, MTV, New York Post, Nissan, online viewing, Tony Bennett, Velvet Revolver, yahoo |
By ArticleSnatch on September 8, 2007
MTV Networks (MTVN) announced today the development of two dozen targeted Web sites that will allow users to have better access to their favorite music, entertainment and pop culture content. MTV To Launch Two Dozen Sites Starting in the third quarter and fourth quarter 2007, the Web sites will come from across MTVN’s brands and [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged Judy McGrath, Mika Salmi, MTV, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon |
By ArticleSnatch on August 22, 2007
RealNetworks, MTV Networks and Verizon Wireless have partnered to create a digital music service that users can access using their PC, portable music device or mobile phone. As part of the partnership, MTV Networks and RealNetworks are creating a new company, Rhapsody America, whose offering will be the exclusive digital music service for Real and [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged cellular telephone, mobile phones, MTV, MTV Networks, MTV Networks Music & Logo Group, Music Service, portable music device, Rhapsody America, United States, V Cast Music, Van Toffler, Verizon Wireless |
By ArticleSnatch on August 15, 2007
The CW – the other network you probably don’t watch – is giving us a new reason to check them out this fall. Not that it’s original, just that it’s primetime and that means something, right? From the description, it sounds a bit like VH1′s "Web Junk" show, just with a bigger budget and more [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged America, David Hurwitz, Jimmy Kimmel Live, MTV, online discussion, Online Nation, Paul Cockerill, television networks |
By ArticleSnatch on July 7, 2007
If you didn’t know there was a Generation Jones, you’re not alone, and those of this generation are not alone either – a new social network called Boomj.com aims to connect them, ridding them of the more ominous moniker, "the lost generation." The label is the brain fruit of social commentator (the title given him [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged Davy Crocket, Echo Boom, Generation Xbox, heavy metal, Internet Generation, Jonathan Pontell, Lawn-Darts-They-Tried-To-Kill-All-Of-Us Generation, MTV, social network, Transformers Group |
By ArticleSnatch on June 26, 2007
A Day of Silence has swept across the bandwidth of a number of music webcasting services as they protest new royalty rates that could put them out of business for good.If you want to hear the future of web radio with the Copyright Royalty Board’s new rates in place, chances are your regular music listening [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged Copyright Royalty Board, Ian C. Rogers, Internet radio starting July 15th, MTV, music webcasting services, online radio, Washington DC, web radio, yahoo, Yahoo Music |
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