America’s largest TV provider, Comcast, has launched a new channel that’s got our attention. It’s called ARC, or the A&R Channel, and it is dedicated to getting unknown musicians’ videos into the 17 million homes that Comcast serves. How are the videos chosen?
ARC will rely on musicians to submit their own videos, and fans to vote for plays. Sort of like Total Request Live, except ARC will actually play the videos all the way through. Oh, and with a million times more variety. The channel will also feature original shows, interviews, and live events, so remember to check the music section of the “On Demand” channel if you subscribe to Comcast Cable television.
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The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at NYU was created with the intention of offering “serious, career-minded students of recorded music… their own school.” This summer, the Department gets something they’ve been missing: master classes.
Department Chair Jeff Rabhan explains,
“These courses teach the skills that students need to move ahead while also gaining entrepreneurial knowledge. The behind-the-scenes information you learn in these classes is the kind that can last an entire lifetime.”
Class topics will range from music production, to music business, to music image-making, and true to NYU form, they are being taught by some very heavy hitters.
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The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a presenting body of 750 highly-influential internet, business, and entertainment professionals, announced this year’s nominees for the Webby Awards last week, and competition is fierce.
Two kinds of awards (The Webby Award and The People’s Voice Award) will be awarded to nominees spread out across various categories in four separate fields (Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile Web). The nominees for People’s Choice in the music category, which falls under the Online Film and Video field, are far from homogeneous.
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