I wrote a post earlier this year about divShare, which offers a good place to store and share your archived show audio. Currently I’m taking a second look at Box.net and its Box Widget feature.
The Box Widget is basically a slick looking way to display the contents of a folder in a small Flash window on your web page. Say you have a folder on Box.net where you keep all your parody songs and you want those song files displayed on your website. With the Box Widget, anything you drop into that folder on Box.net automatically shows up in the widget on your page.
Recently I had the opportunity to interview Garth Brooks. To prepare, I visited web sites like Wikipedia hoping that I might find some nuggets that would help me come up with some unique questions. I then went off to a quiet place in my house for about an hour and just started writing question after question on a legal pad. Knowing I’d have time for only about ten questions, I slowly cut some 40+ questions down to 12-15. Not all were killers, but a number of people who’ve heard the interview have told me it was obvious I prepared.
When it’s time for an artist (or other celeb) interview, what are some better questions you’ve asked? Knowing it’ll lead to a great response, is there a question you ask every celebrity?
What are some of the funnier responses you’ve received from questions you’ve asked?
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Arbitron has released its first-ever report on satellite radio ratings, with detailed figures on listenership for Sirius and XM. Unsurprisingly, Howard Stern’s “Howard 100″ is the most popular channel in satellite radio, with an AQH of 96,700 listeners and a total cume of 1,225,100. However, this is still only a fraction of Stern at his peak on terrestrial radio.
… As for some of the other, big-name personalities, Oprah Winfrey’s “Oprah & Friends” channel draws a weekly cume of just 115,800, while Martha Stewart’s Sirius channel nets only 35,700 listeners per week.
… Overall, Arbitron found that XM has a weekly cume of 10,332,900, while Sirius has a cume of 6,595,000. The satellite ratings were for persons ages 12+, based on approximately 466,000 in 300 markets during the Spring book (April-June).
If you’re looking for royalty-free sound files, Soundsnap is a free online database of sound clips separated in 16 categories. All files have a preview and users can download them in mp3, wav, and aiff format.
The Drudge Report reports Don Imus has secured a deal returning him to the airwaves on December 3. According to Drudge:
“Imus In The Morning” will make a high-impact resurrection on WABC in New York City, top sources reveal. “We’ll have him on a standard 40-second delay,” a studio source explains. “Don is rested, humbled, and ready for war!” Specific terms of the deal will not be released, but the host, who was fired by CBS and MSNBC after making disparaging comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, has inked a eight-figure, multiyear contract with WABC parent company, Citadel Broadcasting.
Nearly four years after Janet Jackson’s incident at the Super Bowl, some knucklehead TV host in Sacramento, California, thought it was still worthy of discussion. Maybe — MAYBE — if the interview had taken place 6 months after her Super Bowl appearance it might have made sense, but when you’re aching to bring it up four years later, you’re nothing but an amateur broadcaster.
Here’s the story. Video’s on the right side of the page. Kudos to filmmaker Tyler Perry for trying to run interference.
Pearl Records announced this week that they will make the online premiere of Garth Brooks’ new music video for hit hit “More Than A Memory” available exclusively via country radio station websites on Friday, October 19th. The video will debut within an online player being dubbed ‘The G-Player’, a device housing exclusive commentary, photos, trivia, news and a release-day messaging campaign known as ‘Wake Up With Garth’. Radio stations interested in receiving a custom player branded with their station logo in advance of next Friday’s video premiere should contact McCoy & Associates at radiospecials@dtccom.net.
From KansasCity.com: It was only a few minutes after 10 a.m. Saturday when the marquee at the Sprint Center flashed the happy news: “Second show added Nov. 12.”A Garth Brooks crowd numbering in the hundreds whooped it up — hey, these are country music fans — and it seemed that every face grew a big smile. Fans knew that tickets to Brooks’ originally announced show on Nov. 14 at Sprint would get snapped up soon after 10 a.m., when they first went on sale. But many felt comfortably certain another show would be added. Then came announcements at 10:17 a.m., 10:29 a.m. and 10:40 a.m. of third, fourth and fifth shows. Each time the crowd grew giddier. A sixth show was added, and by 11 a.m. the line was gone and the mayhem over. Ticket buyers could walk right up to windows of the new Sprint Center. A total of nine shows were announced, Nov. 5 to 12 and Nov. 14, along with special guest Trisha Yearwood. And they were all sold out. That’s about 140,000 tickets, each costing no more than $32.50. Brooks apparently knows how to make concert fans happy — and how to do it dramatically.
A Detroit radio station has apologized after a disk jockey advertised a contest to determine when Britney Spears would commit suicide. “When will Britney end it?” listeners were asked on the Web and the Tuesday night radio show hosted by DJ Big Boy on Channel 955, according to a story in the Detroit News. “If you can guess the exact day that Britney dies, whether it’s from drugs or however she dies, if you’re right, we’ll give you a thousand bucks,” the News quoted DJ Big Boy as saying. More from FoxNews.com.
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