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Pandora Shares Impressive January Audience Stats
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Pandora just shared monthly metrics for January 2013. Listener hours for the month hit an impressive 1.39 billion, an increase of 47% from 952 million during the same period last year. Pandora's share of total U.S. radio listening is now at 8.03%, an increase from 5.55% at last year. Active listeners were 65.6 million at the end of January, an increase of 38% from 47.6 million during the same time period last year. Pandora is now releasing key audience metrics ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Crescent City Stomp: A Mardi Gras Celebration
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Don Mopsick
Crescent City Stomp: A Mardi Gras Celebration This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band teams up with New Orleans natives Topsy Chapman and Vernel Bagneris to celebrate the roots of New Orleans Jazz. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. They ...
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WBGO Is In The Mood For Love: Send Your Love Today!
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
WBGO is in the mood for love! CELEBRATE VALENTINE’S DAY WITH A LOVE LETTER TO WBGO JAZZ 88.3 NEWARK, NJ, February 4, 2013 – Valentine’s Day is coming, and WBGO Jazz 88.3 is in the mood for love. Listeners are invited to submit love letters via email to [email protected] (please write WBGO Love Letter in the subject line), online at wbgo.org/loveletter or by regular mail to: WBGO Love Letter 54 Park Place Newark, NJ 07102 WBGO ...
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Riverwalk Jazz Whenever You Want!
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Don Mopsick
By Mick Carlon The only drawback to my all-time favorite radio show, Riverwalk Jazz, was that I had to wait until Saturday mornings to listen. No longer! Thanks to Stanford University’s Archive of Recorded Sound, twenty five years of this exalted show—over 350 radio shows, over 4,000 song performances—are now available twenty four hours a day, seven days a week on your computer. Bookmark this address: riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu. Presented on two channels, the music never stops. Allow me to quote from ...
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Triple Crown Of Tunesmiths This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, it’s the music of songwriters Vincent Youmans, Johnny Green and Harry Barris. Special guests Shelly Berg and Dick Hyman join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band on piano and Topsy Chapman, Marty Grosz and Carol Woods handle the vocals. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at ...
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Rdio Launches Free Music Streaming in 17 Countries
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Freemium continues to be a popular weapon in the music streaming wars, and today Rdio launched free streams for 6 months in 15 of the 17 countries in which it's available. The markets include the United States (where it's been free since Oct 2011), United Kingdom, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. Rdio is not offering the 6 month free in Germany or Brazil. In the other markets new listeners can ...
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NPR Music and WBGO Present The Checkout – Live at Berklee with Jaleel Shaw
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
The Checkout – Live at Berklee, which brings critically acclaimed, New York-based Berklee alumni back to their alma mater for concerts in the Red Room at Cafe 939, continues on Thursday, February 7 with rising alto and soprano saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, a 2000 Berklee graduate. Shaw will be performing with alumnus pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Boris Kozlov, and drummer Johnathan Blake. Presented by NPR Music and WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM, the shows will be webcast live worldwide in high definition ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Doc Cheatham, Bob Haggart And Joe Williams
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz: Doc Cheatham, Bob Haggart and Joe Williams share their music and stories with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. Adophus “Doc” Cheatham (1905-1997) was a walking encyclopedia of jazz history. He rubbed shoulders ...
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