Author: John McDermott @mcdradio

Good stuff here from Phil Boyce. He’s right about the network clocks, but it’s awful from the listener end of things. It’s the system that’s broken.

Good article about how to approach new technology without putting your head in the sand.

The PGA Tour recently revoked golf reporter Stephanie Weis credential after she used Periscope to show golfers teeing off in practice last Monday. This is justified in the eyes of PGA Tour legal counsel.But imagine if instead they saw this as an opportunity to reach her 33,000 Twitter followers on a Monday afternoon … and then worked with her to embed real-time ads in her feed?

via Livestreaming scofflaws are techs new innovators – May. 7, 2015.

A very good read on the state of some sections of the internet.  Definitely worth reading the entire piece.

Attracting writers who, quite understandably, are looking for any break they can get. Often media companies sell this to them as “providing exposure,” but let’s be clear about it: it’s just a way for a company to get someone’s labor on the cheap.

via Media companies: Get adults to run your verticals | Craig Calcaterra.

This is great.  Nice to see the team doing this on their own.  Should be interesting how sports broadcasts shake out in the years to come.  Now let’s dive in and do the road games too guys!

HARRISON, N.J. (April 17, 2015) – The New York Red Bulls announced today plans to stream live audio broadcasts of all home games from Red Bull Arena in both English and Spanish via the team’s official website, NewYorkRedBulls.com.

The Internet radio broadcasts will begin tonight, April 17 when the Red Bulls host San Jose at Red Bull Arena. In addition to the home broadcasts, New York’s games at NYCFC and Philadelphia will also be streamed live on the team’s website.

 

“We wanted to give our fans another option to follow Red Bulls soccer,” said New York general manager Marc de Grandpre. “Now fans anywhere with access to the Internet can listen. It was important from our perspective to provide both audio broadcasts in English and Spanish and we are excited to have a strong collection of voices to call the action.”

 

Fans can listen to the games on any mobile device or via their computer at www.NewYorkRedBulls.com/Live.

via New York Red Bulls launch internet radio network | New York Red Bulls.

What a really nice article about Star Wars Celebration in the Times today.  I got to know a lot of the people involved during my work on Star Wars Celebration Radio and they are all really awesome people.  It’s been a melancholy week where my professional side is itchy to do more SWC Radio (and I guess there is no such thing this time), but my personal side is excited to see them live streaming the Con on Youtube and StarWars.com

It’s a fantastic event you should attend sometime if you are a fan, put on by some really cool people who are actual fans of the saga.

Here’s a fun read that talks about SWC and also mentions some other cool things like Wondercon that I was able to be a small part of:  For Lucasfilm, the Way of Its Force Lies in Its ‘Star Wars’ Fans – NYTimes.com.

A good read in the Washington Post.  The part that stuck with me is the below.

As an example believe me I LOVE Star Wars.  But the hype over the trailer yesterday because of three lines from Harrison Ford?  The trailer is nice but it’s not Godfather II.   I will now be shunned.  (Oh and half the people that tweeted it spelled the character’s name as “Chewy.”  Noooo.)

More on Star Wars in the next post!

He also wondered whether the hype machine had finally cracked the formula for perpetual motion: Fame begets fawning praise; fawning praise generates big Web traffic; big Web traffic perpetuates fame; rinse and repeat ­forever-ever.

via Do you want poptimism? Or do you want the truth? – The Washington Post.

Good stuff here about how if artists start to become exclusive to one service that streaming will get messy.  Think of it as if you needed cable TV to watch baseball but football was only on AppleTV and whatever other sport you like only on Roku.  Would you have all three?  Would you do without one?

Tidals secret weapon isnt celebrities: Its Live Nation | The Verge.

Not to question the survey, but this feels high to me.  If the penetration is already that high it should be really interesting in five years.

More than four-in-ten (44%) of people surveyed by the IT services company Lochbridge report already using music apps on their smartphone while driving.

via Survey: Music Apps Get a Test Drive. – Insideradio.com: Story.

This is pretty interesting.  I’m curious to ask my college students about this feature.  I imagine this will get used a lot.

The PS4 in particular has one useful feature that makes perfect sense for a gaming console — you can play music in the background as you play games

via Spotify is launching today for Sony’s PS4 and PS3 | The Verge.