Presentation to the Boston College Radio and Media class. Guest Lecturer in Dr. Michael Kieth's class.

1. Internet Radio
George Capalbo
Paul Kamp
backbone networks corporation

2. Internet Radio
George Capalbo
Paul Kamp
backbone networks corporation
Monday, March 15, 2010

3. Internet Radio
• Terrestial Radio under pressure
• What is internet radio, and what’s happening?
• How do I listen to Internet Radio?

4. • Develop Internet Radio Technologies
• Marketed as a hosting service
• Working with College Networks, Public Radio
• Network of 40+ college stations, power XM 136

5. College Radio Network

6. College Radio Network
A.E.R.
K-Heart
Calvary HS

7. 24 hours of listeners worldwide

8. 24 hours of listeners worldwide
200,000 - 250,000 listener sessions per month

9. A Brief History of Radio -- 100 year old technology!!
• 1901 - First transatlantic signal (Marconi)
• 1922 - Commercial AM broadcasting
• 1930’s - Radio ‘at home’
• 1960’s - Stereo FM radio
• 1970’s - First Satellite radio networks
(distribution)
• 1980’s - Data sent with audio
• 1990’s - Growth of group ownership
• late 90’s - ‘Convergence’- digital internet radio
• 2000’s - Consumer satellite networks (XM/Sirius)
• Late 2000’s - The death of terrestrial radio?

10. A Brief History of Radio -- 100 year old technology!!
• 1901 - First transatlantic signal (Marconi)
• 1922 - Commercial AM broadcasting
• 1930’s - Radio ‘at home’
• 1960’s - Stereo FM radio
• 1970’s - First Satellite radio networks
(distribution)
• 1980’s - Data sent with audio
• 1990’s - Growth of group ownership
• late 90’s - ‘Convergence’- digital internet radio
• 2000’s - Consumer satellite networks (XM/Sirius)
• Late 2000’s - The death of terrestrial radio?

11. New Technology is disruptive

12. The death of terrestrial radio?
• Major media in financial trouble
• Trying to adapt to new media
• Under pressure for additional royalty payments

13. Where is radio going?

14. Where is radio going?

15. 1942
The American Federation of Musicians
went on strike.
Union president James C. Petrillo told
musicians that phonograph records were:
"A threat to membersʼ jobs."

16. "Web radio is growing exponentially.
“These little stations develop a popular
URL and then flip it and sell it for big
money and the artists get nothing..."
John Simson, Soundexchange
(Washington Post 3/18/07)

17. WOXY internet station ceases operations... yesterday
“...streaming music stations must
pay royalties for the right to play
music online, which scale up in
cost as listenership increases...”

18. Some history on Royalties
• http://www.backbonehub.com/royalties_history.m4a

19. Some history on Royalties
• http://www.backbonehub.com/royalties_history.m4a

20. Radio Music Royalties
all Radio pays:
• Composition rights (song and lyrics)

21. Internet Radio pays extra royalties!
•Performance Royalties
• Commercial stations pay each time you hear a song
• Non-Profit stations pay a flat rate
• Satellite radio also pays a percentage of revenue

22. WHY?

23. Terrestrial Radio Royalties?
“The proposed bill H.R. 848 known as the
Performance Rights Act would extend
current royalty rights to include audio
transmission. As they currently stand the
royalty laws only cover digital transference
but H.R. 848 would allow copyright
umbrellas to also encompass audio
broadcasts by analog radio stations...”

24. This continues to churn, and will do so for many years

25. How do I Listen to Internet
Radio?
• On a Mac or Windows: iTunes, Winamp, Songbird
• On the go-- iPhone
• Standalone devices

26. Where is the tech going?

27. New Streaming Technologies
based on AAC audio

28. New Streaming Technologies
based on AAC audio
• Drive more listeners to your stations
• Icecast/shoutcast support
• Apple’s new HTTP-LIVE
• QuickTime® Streaming

29. How to find stations?

30. How to find stations?
• xiph.org -- icecast directory
• shoutcast.org (coming soon)
• radiotime (coming soon)
• (and of course iTunes)

32. PC, or mac Firefox, you get QuickTime

33. Safari on OS X 10.6, you get HTTP-LIVE

34. iPhone, iPod Touch, you get HTTP-LIVE

35. iPad, you get HTTP-LIVE

36. iTunes/terrestrial automation

37. iTunes/terrestrial automation
• While playing live music
• Inject graphics, links into Live stream
• Works with iTunes
• Broadcast Electronics Automation

39. Syndicated sources of programming

43. IBS-Palooza coverage on WJZ-TV Baltimore

45. Questions? Answers?

46. http://www.backbone.com
George Capalbo
gcapalbo@backbone.com
Paul Kamp
pgk2@backbone.com