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  radiodaysfade
The nation's biggest radio operator, with 1,200 stations, including seven in Chicago, reported Friday that radio revenue was flat in the fourth quarter, and up only 2 percent for the year.
Having watched radio advertising fail to increase significantly in a year of unprecedented political spending, a summer Olympics and a gradually improving economy, Mirsky said investors have come to expect that radio is likely to be mired in the low-single digits for years to come.
Even as traditional radio trailed the gains made in 2004 by other media, John Hogan, Clear Channel Radio's chief executive, argues that radio still offers advertisers a cost-effective means to reach a large audience.
www.byrnesmedia.com /News/2005/march/radiodaysfade.html   (1310 words)

  
  Fade article - Fade radio communications signal strength receiver signal interference - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Fade is caused mostly by conditions in the atmosphere at higher frequencies, and mostly by the ionosphere at lower ones.
In audio engineering, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease in the volume of a source, such as when a song is gradually reduced to silence at its end (fade-out), or gradually increases from silence at the beginning (fade-in).
In stage lighting, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease of the intensity of light projected onto the stage.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Fade   (440 words)

  
 Fade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The loss of signal strength at a radio receiver, see fade (radio).
Fade-in or fade-out, the gradual increase or decrease in volume, see fade (audio engineering).
Similarly, an increase or decrease in intensity of a light source, particularly in theatre, see fade (lighting).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fade   (131 words)

  
 Rain fade article - Rain fade satellite communications microwave Radio Frequency electromagnetic - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In satellite communications, rain fade refers to the absorption of a microwave Radio Frequency (RF) signal by rain or snow.
It also refers to the degradation of a signal caused by the electromagnetic interference of the leading edge of a storm front.
Rain fade can be caused by rain or snow at the uplink or downlink location.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Rain_fade   (135 words)

  
 BBC - Gloucestershire Clubbing - DJ Fade
DJ Fade is part of the 11A 'stable' of artists and his mixing talents have scooped him a World Mixing Champion title.
DJ Fade is part of the 11A story, an exciting arts collective in the heart of Gloucester and at 26 years old he is already making waves in the music industry.
Fade had the decks set up in one of the downstairs rooms at 11A and used two records to demonstrate his fast, rhythmic style.
www.bbc.co.uk /gloucestershire/clubbing/2003/05/djfade.shtml   (465 words)

  
 Fade - the band
Fade officially launched the release of their debut EP "Greed" at The Cat and Fiddle Hotel, Balmain, on Friday July 22 to a capacity crowd.
Fade single Greed, the title track off Fade's debut EP, was accepted onto the latest AIR (Association of Independent Records) Rock Sampler.
Contemporary in style, with a dark edge, Fade is a dynamic young band with a growing track record of live performances and a rising fan base.
www.zeromusic.com.au /fade   (391 words)

  
 Birdman is winging it again - The Boston Globe
Radio Birdman, a dysfunctional gang of Australian sonic anarchists who, along with their Aussie neighbors the Saints, helped usher in Europe's nascent punk movement in the '70s, was an outfit destined to flame out before it really had the chance to fly.
Radio Birdman's debut US tour was scheduled for 1976, opening for the Ramones.
Producers, publicists, artists, and radio employees, among others, are all included in the nominating process, but the public is also encouraged to join in the voting.
www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2006/09/01/birdman_is_winging_it_again   (957 words)

  
 Classical Radio's Fade-Out   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Great music on the radio is in dangerously short supply these days; in some places it has been abandoned altogether.
A radio station trying to do justice to the great art of classical music must take its mission seriously, programming with the integrity and intelligence of a serious arts institution.
For public radio, this means putting to use a vast collective classical music library; broadcasting live events; exploring new kinds of compositions; and providing a stage for distinguished performers, composers and music scholars.
www.gregsandow.com /Juilliard/david_wuhan.htm   (522 words)

  
 Fade out for democratic radio? | Oct 20, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
And if, because of their lobbying, low-power FM (LPFM) dies this week, we'll have no one to blame but ourselves, we who gave away our public airwaves—our forgotten natural resource—to a very few, very powerful mass-media oligarchs.
The monstrosity that was the 1996 Telecommunications Act gave $70 billion worth of the public airwaves to major TV broadcasters for free and gutted anti-consolidation legislation in the radio industry.
Just ask Pacifica Radio, a nationwide patchwork of liberal, freeform community stations, that reaches only one-seventh of the country.
www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxx/2000.10.20/opinion/p12radio.html   (726 words)

  
 Radio Fade-Out Vexes Viacom
Viacom's cable networks lost perhaps $2 million in revenue because of the war, he said, but he was inclined to think that $2 million was spent subsequently.
But Karmazin said the war wasn't to blame for radio's poor performance in the quarter, as sales dropped 2% from year-ago figures.
Karmazin said the first meeting he was having after the conference call was with executives at the company's New York radio stations.
www.thestreet.com /pf/tech/georgemannes/10082007.html   (655 words)

  
 Satellite Radio Is Clear With No Station Loss Across The Land
Satellites dedicated only to radio in various orbits from the 3 major providers beam the waves from their satellites which are all at the same approximate distance of 22,000 (35,000 km) miles up in outer space.
XM radio was the first to launch commercial service in limited areas in the United States with its launch on September 25, 2001 which was delayed from September 12 because of the terror attacks on the United States.
XM Radio has a third HS-702 satellite ready to be launched in case one of the two orbiting satellites fail.
www.satellite-tv.info /htm/satellite-radio.htm   (1481 words)

  
 Microwave Networks Inc - TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR CONVERTING FROM ANALOG TO DIGITAL MICROWAVE RADIO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The major impairment to the quality and reliability of a working microwave radio link is the effect that atmospheric anomalies have on the signal as it propagates from one end of the link to the other, more commonly referred to as fading.
Fades of this type affect the amplitude of all frequencies within a receiver’s RF pass-band equally and simultaneously, resulting in a weak but undistorted signal.
Fades of this type affect the amplitude of all frequencies within a receiver’s RF pass-band unequally and not necessarily simultaneously, resulting in a distorted, although sometimes strong, received signal.
www.microwavenetworks.com /anatodigi.htm   (3560 words)

  
 CD Baby: FADE TO BLUE: Single
Fade to Blue is a pop/rock band based out of Columbus, Ohio.
With the compilation of these five individuals and their diverse musical backgrounds, Fade to Blue’s sound has evolved to what it is today.
Fade to Blue had their first opportunity to perform out of state and found themselves playing to sold out shows in Knoxville, Tennessee and Atlanta, Georgia.
cdbaby.com /cd/fadetoblue2   (328 words)

  
 Mars in Pop Culture: Radio :: Astrobiology Magazine - beginning study of life - Origin - evolution - life beyond Earth ...
The farther away we travel, the older the broadcasts are, until beyond a certain distance the rock music dims, the radio dramas fade out, and the deep silence of space prevails.
Radio may not be Earth’s most popular entertainment medium anymore, but compared to the questionable special effects used in science fiction movies — especially the earlier ones -- perhaps the movie house of the mind is still the best place to enjoy imaginative tales about aliens.
These were adapted for radio by scriptwriters George Lefferts and Ernest Kinoy, both of whom later wrote for various TV series.
www.astrobio.net /news/article1626.html   (643 words)

  
 Radio Sound Effects
Radio Theater is telling a story by the careful mixing of sounds - both verbal and non-verbal.
Radio is a "hot" medium - that is, the listener's imagination and experience are involved in giving the story depth, substance and meaning.
In radio theater, and particularly in sound effects, recording technique often depends on the "degradation" of sound.
www.greatnorthernaudio.com /audio_theater/Sound_Effects.html   (2007 words)

  
 Satellite Rain Fade - Causes and Solutions | Solid Signal | Gain Master Satellite Dish
Rain fade is one of the most common, and often most misunderstood, phenomena to affect satellite signals.
But the more you learn about the causes of rain fade, the better your chances are to lessen its impact on your satellite system.
Rain fade seems to correlate very closely with the volume of raindrops (expressed in cubic wavelengths) along the path of propagation.
www.solidsignal.com /satellite/rain_fade_about.asp   (650 words)

  
 NCEM -- Radio: Listening Up
NCEM's radio outreach began with the "Indian Gospel Broadcast" from CKBI Prince Albert (SK) in 1958.
Through radio the Gospel was penetrating barriers of literacy, race, religion, language and geography.
RADIO "CIAM" - 92.3 FM NCEMers Michael and Man Sandstrom initiated and pursued this venture, but they will be the first to tell you that they certainly didn't do it alone.
ncem.gospelcom.net /news/nls483feat_radio.htm   (1562 words)

  
 Radio
She turns on the radio hoping for a distraction.
(fade in on Emily) She's dancing with her stuffed bear around the room smiling for the first time since her dreadful break up with Zander.
(fade in on Emily) She dancing with the bear, but in her mind it's Zander and his arms are wrapped tight around her.
www.angelfire.com /tv2/pixiesticks/Radio.html   (635 words)

  
 The Morning News - The Non-Expert: Not Fade Away, by Kevin Guilfoile
The Federal Communications Commission eventually relaxed the rules but still required radio hosts to disclose when music was coming from a recording instead of being played by a live orchestra crammed into the studio like Earth Wind and Fire on TRL.
My own record collection is far from complete, but, true enough, the earliest instance of a fade I can find is on ‘Lean Baby,’ a terrible Sinatra tune about dating skinny women recorded in 1953, some 13 years before his marriage to an emaciated Mia Farrow.
The fade became part of our musical vocabulary and not a single person gave it another thought until you brought it up just now.
www.themorningnews.org /archives/how_to/the_nonexpert_not_fade_away.php   (1349 words)

  
 Fade Records Label Profile @ Club Radio Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
FADE was formed in the summer of 1993 when Neil Kolo, a young studio engineer, introduced himself to Chris Fortier, a young resident DJ at the infamous "Marz" club in Cocoa Beach, FL, and passed on a tape of some of the material he had been working on.
Chris, very enthused by what he had heard, expressed his interst in the idea of working together and learning about how to produce tracks of his own like the ones he had been playing up and down the East Coast of America.
The two tracks were then combined as a double A-sided release, which was the first release on FADE Records, the label that Chris owns and operates.
www.clubradio.net /dj/labeldetails.cfm?id=666   (213 words)

  
 2005 Annual Report: Radio/Intro
While some companies continue to consolidate, at least one major player in radio is moving to break in two.
Already radio news has changed from something that was once heavily local and widely available to something that exists largely on select stations specifically formatted for news or news/talks content.
The answer depends, in part, on the degree to which they were hearing from radio news about the larger world at all, something that probably varies from station to station.
www.stateofthenewsmedia.org /2006/printable_radio_intro.asp?media=1&cat=1   (290 words)

  
 Why Internet radio may fade | csmonitor.com
Traditional radio stations pay royalties to songs' copyright holders – not necessarily the artists performing the music.
Internet radio stations let computer users connect to a website and listen to music using special software.
Internet radio broadcasters say they fill an important role by playing and promoting music that would never be played on traditional stations.
www.csmonitor.com /2002/0617/p16s02-wmgn.html   (1096 words)

  
 Sam Ruby: Fade to white
pleas, the number of subscribers to my radio feed is actually increasing.
One problem might be that the #1 Sam Ruby on Google is at radio.weblogs.com - maybe you should replace your radio homepage w/ a redirect.
Change the template on that Radio page, if you can, to contain a link meta tag to use the new feed.
www.intertwingly.net /blog/910.html   (429 words)

  
 FADE TO BLACK PRESENTS - Michael Feldman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
If you are not one of over 1.3 million listeners who tune into Michael Feldman's radio show called "Whad'Ya Know" on a weekly basis, we hope this interview will make you a listener.
Heard on over 300 Public Radio stations across the world the program remains one of the most popular weekend shows on NPR.
We talked to Michael Feldman about the show, the state of radio, and comedy in general.
www.fadetoblack.com /interviews/michaelfeldman   (181 words)

  
 What is solar fade? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
GEO satellites orbit the earth above the equator and rely on microwave signals in the radio frequency spectrum for communications with an earth-bound antenna.
When the sun is directly behind a satellite the radio signals of the satellite communications are overpowered by the sun's radio frequency energy, creating noise, and the communications are therefore disrupted.
An example of a solar fade calculator that one can use to determine the approximate date and time of a solar fade.
www.webopedia.com /TERM/S/solar_fade.html   (256 words)

  
 Fade -- Kyle Mills
Now he's walking around with a bullet lodged near his spine, and he's not too fond of anyone in the government, least of all, his ex-best friend Matt Egan, whom he blames for his present condition.
But Fade is prepared to fight back at any cost.
Fade is a remarkable, take-no-prisoners program from an unparalleled writer at the height of his talents.
www.audible.com /adbl/store/CJProduct.jsp?productID=BK_AREN_000460   (227 words)

  
 CD Baby: FADE TO BLUE: Sentenced to Life
Sentenced To Life is Fade To Blue's first full length release featuring eleven colorful tracks.
Fade To Blue is working on a new record in hopes of building on the momentum of the energetic Sentenced To Life.
It is not often that you get that many great songs on one CD but Fade to Blue pulls it off on this one.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/fadetoblue   (585 words)

  
 Radio Fade-Out Vexes Viacom
Viacom (VIA :NYSE - news - commentary - research - analysis) President Mel Karmazin was characteristically upbeat about the advertising business Tuesday, but for one glaring exception: radio.
The comments, coming on a Tuesday morning conference call with analysts after the media conglomerate reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter earnings, hint at possible difficulties for other radio operators.
Karmazin's remarks and Viacom's strong financial outlook also spotlight the company's continuing rivalry with struggling AOL Time Warner (AOL :NYSE - news - commentary - research - analysis), which is slated to report earnings Wednesday morning.
www.thestreet.com /tech/georgemannes/10082007.html   (428 words)

  
 Longtime NFL radio voices fade out
His departure also highlighted the changes in broadcasting over the years, and how differently the public regards NFL radio broadcasters from their colleagues in Major League Baseball.
NFL radio voices may also resonate more in markets where home games are typically fled out on TV, but it's not a coincidence that those three broadcasters work in places where the NFL team is important to and popular in the community.
Steelers radio broadcaster and Pitssburgh icon Myron Cope retired from the booth last month after 35 years of calling games.
www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/sports/articles/0706nflbroadcast0706.html   (759 words)

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