lautstark 06.03.2009 | 16:08:45
Modern Lover
sehr schade (money ruins everything)!!

snegurotschka 06.03.2009 | 18:16:00
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ja, sehr betrüblich.

hier etwas mehr text.

leones 09.03.2009 | 17:54:59
Hail to the freaks
ach wie blöd, ich mag es nicht wenn mich dies wirtschaftskrise persönlich ans bein pinkelt......

hansmoleman 13.03.2009 | 13:41:45
- el topo
ein essay über die idiotie des vermeintlichen unternehmerischen denkens der plattenindustrie, verfasst von den machern des frisch begrabenen fabchannels:

March 13th, 2009

Dear Fabfriends,

The decision to kill our darling has been the hardest we ever had to make. And I totally understand all of your questions about a possible future, the archive and ways of generating revenue with Fabchannel. During the last nine years we did everything within our powers to create an artistically and commercially sound live music platform. In this blogpost I am going to try to explain a little about the road we travelled. Hopefully this will make things more clear.

Fabchannel and the record Labels
No money means no content. That is the way the labels (major and independent) look at potential partnerships with internet companies. Even when it is obvious a service provides added value in promotion and sales, the mantra stays the same: no money, no content. Even when a service invests substantial amounts of money in creating high quality concert footage and an award winning platform to show it to the world, the mantra stays the same: no money, no content.

When you look at it from a label point of view it might even look logical. Their businessmodels have been hammered the last ten years by decreasing CD sales. Their radio, TV and newspaper partners are not doing their promotional job as they used to. And last but not least: the majority of consumers are now downloading tracks for free. All bad things for companies that invest in recordings of artists.

So the most important feature that new partners have to have is: MONEY. Money to counter the decrease in CD sales. Promotion has turned into a dirty word. MTV for example got big and wealthy by showing videoclips paid for by the labels. So now these labels think: We will not let that happen again. From now on everybody who wants to become a mediapartner online is going to have to pay upfront to even start!

Take note of the word online after mediapartner. It is very curious to see that for radio and TV stations, the rules are a bit different. Labels pay so called ‘pluggers' to persuade DJ's to play their new artists. And the radiostations do not pay for the recordings, just like MTV. Some radiostations even insist of getting a percentage of the record sales before they decide to plug a new artist.

You see the difference in perception? Internet = source of income, Radio/Television = partner in generating income.

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