Interactive One and Songza Launch BlackPlanet Radio, the First Social Radio Website for the African-American Consumer
NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Interactive One, the largest digital media company serving Black Americans and a subsidiary of Radio One, announced this week a partnership with Songza, a leading streaming music service, to launch BlackPlanet Radio, the digital industry's first social radio website targeted towards African Americans.

Universal Republic and Island Def Jam Appoint Ivan Gavin to Chief Operating Officer
NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Republic & Island Def Jam, a division of Universal Music Group (UMG), has appointed Ivan Gavin to the newly-created position of Chief Operating Officer, it was announced today by Barry Weiss, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the company, and to whom Mr.

Carrie Underwood is First Artist Announced to Perform at 2012 CMA Music Festival
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The iconic CMA Music Festival will once again take over the Downtown Nashville campus for four days this summer, Thursday-Sunday, June 7-10, 2012. The event that USA Today calls "the crown jewel of Country Music festivals" started in 1972 as Fan Fair®.

Satellite Radio
Does it annoy you when you press the scan button on your car radio and it whirls through the scores of stations but doesn't land on anything that appeals to you? Does it bug you that music stations tend to play the same songs over and over, completely missing what you want to hear? Does it drive you nuts when you are enjoying a certain radio station and the signal fades, skips or is covered with static? If you've answered yes to any of these questions and you have an extra ten bucks a month folded away in your pocket, you could be a strong candidate for pay-radio or, as its purveyors would rather portray it, satellite-delivered subscriber radio. It's coming sooner than you think.