ARTISTdirect and Radio Free Virgin Announce Partnership to Enable Radio Free Virgin Listeners to Purchase Music and Merchandise From Thousands of Major Label Artists.Business Editors/Technology Writers LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2001 ARTISTdirect, the leading online music company that connects music fans directly with their favorite artists, and Radio Free Virgin, a pioneering digital radio broadcast company offering in-depth, genre-rich music programming, today announced a partnership to provide Radio Free Virgin listeners the ability to purchase a comprehensive suite of music and merchandise from major label artists. Consumers listening to their favorite Radio Free Virgin stations will have the opportunity to instantly purchase products of the artists playing at that time. While a song plays, album artwork as well as a Buy button will appear within the Radio Free Virgin Player. When listeners click the Buy button, they are automatically linked to the album and merchandise on ARTISTdirect's site. In addition to CDs, merchandise stock includes apparel and posters as well as some exclusive items. Through this dynamic relationship, ARTISTdirect and Radio Free Virgin are enabling listeners to become impulse buyers of an array of products from thousands of world-renowned recording artists. "We're very excited to expand our relationship with Radio Free Virgin," said Keith Yokomoto, president, ARTISTdirect. "Through their over 40 channels, Radio Free Virgin offers consumers a wide selection of music, and we are complementing that with the ability to buy both the music and merchandise on demand." "Radio Free Virgin is thrilled to be able to offer our millions of listeners access to ARTISTdirect's catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. of music and merchandise," stated Zack Zalon, general manager of Radio Free Virgin. "As a full-service music provider, Radio Free Virgin provides listeners with the best digital broadcasting Digital broadcasting is the practice of using digital data rather than analogue waveforms to carry broadcasts over television channels or assigned radio frequency bands. It is becoming increasingly popular for television usage (especially satellite television) but is having a experience possible, both online and off, across all genres of musical styles." About ARTISTdirect Inc. ARTISTdirect Inc. (Nasdaq:ARTD) is a music and media company that combines an online music network with integrated offline assets to provide a single-stop solution for music fans, artists, labels and advertisers. ARTISTdirect.com (www.artistdirect.com), a comprehensive online destination, blends music programming, community, e-commerce retail and digital music services. Through the ARTISTdirect Talent Agency, the company also manages offline musical tour booking and develops event-marketing programs extending sponsor reach. Through its co-venture, ARTISTdirect Records, the company operates a record label. The company has headquarters in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . About Radio Free Virgin Part of the worldwide Virgin family, Radio Free Virgin is a leading digital radio broadcasting The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. company that uniquely combines music and technology to bring consumers the highest quality music content available via digital distribution, both on and off the desktop. Radio Free Virgin's state-of-the-art, CD-quality streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. combines the company's proprietary software application (available by download free of charge at www.radiofreevirgin.com) and innovative, genre-rich, original music channels programmed by well-known artists, celebrities, musicologists A musicologist is someone who studies musicology. An ethnomusicologist is someone who studies ethnomusicology; a zoomusicologist is someone who studies zoomusicology. and DJs from around the world. Based in Los Angeles, Radio Free Virgin is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. funded by Richard Branson Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950 in Shamley Green, Surrey, England), is a British entrepreneur, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 , and is a unit of Virgin Audio Holdings LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . |
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