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Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy Exits, Stock up 20%

March 8, 2013

Wall Street reacted positively to news that Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy is exiting after 10 years at the helm. Pandora also announced strong quarterly earnings of $125 million, improving ad sales, and a strong forecast for the next. The company lost $14.6 million last quarter, but the stock still jumped almost 20% in after hours trading. ...

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Women Of The Harlem Renaissance This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

March 7, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, singer and actress Carol Woods—known for her many roles on Broadway and in the movies—joins us to remember the Women of the Harlem Renaissancen and celebrate their work. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and their guests perform the music of Duke Ellington and James P Johnson. The program is distributed in ...

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Ending Radio's Free Ride

March 7, 2013

By David Macias, cofounder of Thirty Tigers. He's exploring this topic further at SXSW on the panel Still Hazy After All These Years: Performance Royalties and Terrestrial Radio. The Robinson-Patman Act was a law passed in 1936 in order to strengthen anti-trust law. It forbids one entity from offering the same good or service to two different ...

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Nicole Henry Performs On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, 3/8/13

March 6, 2013

Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's SOUTH FLORIDA ARTS BEAT Friday, March 8th, 2013 Featuring NICOLE HENRY Miami Beach’s beloved Jazz, Pop and Soul vocal star returns for a worldwide performance on South Florida Arts Beat. She’ll sing tunes from the ‘70’s on her latest recording, So ...

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Sophisticated Ladies And Red Hot Mommas This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

March 1, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, New Orleans’ Topsy Chapman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to separate “sophisticated ladies" from “red-hot mommas." Heart-breakers, man-takers, vamps, tramps and the girl next door—through the decades they’ve all shown up in song. Songwriters are forever trying to decipher the feminine mystique, and singers never tire of crooning about the ...

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Dennis Owsley Seeking Recent Recordings for Updated Jazz History of St. Louis

February 22, 2013

Dennis Owsley, host of the Jazz Unlimited program airing at 9:00 p.m. Sunday nights on KWMU (90.7), is preparing to celebrate his 30th year of continuous jazz broadcasting on the station, and to do so, he needs a bit of help from local St. Louis musicians. Owsley, who also wrote the book City of Gabriels: The ...

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The Memories Of Danny Barker This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

February 21, 2013

This week's Riverwalk Jazz features interviews with New Orleans jazz pioneer Danny Barker. The Smithsonian Institution opened the vaults of the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History so that we could present Danny Barker’s authentic New Orleans vernacular as he recollects life in the Crescent City in the early 1900s. The program is ...

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A Riverwalk Jazz Valentine This Week

February 14, 2013

Valentine’s Day brings out our most sentimental feelings one moment and then inspires the goofiest humor the next. This week, Riverwalk Jazz explores both sides of the coin on our concert of love songs from the interwar years, interpreted by our stable of great performers sitting in with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The program is ...

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Paulette Dozier Sings On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, 2/15/13

February 12, 2013

Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, Friday, February 15th, 2013 Featuring PAULETTE DOZIER This renowned Jazz vocalist and stage actor has received acclaim for her recordings and live performances from New York to Italy and South Florida. She has received rave reviews of her stage presentations of ...

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Pandora Shares Impressive January Audience Stats

February 8, 2013

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 ...