Spinner.com Partners With Record Label Phoenix Media for Internet Broadcast of Exclusive Live Recordings by Marquee Artists.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 1999-- Leading Internet Music Service Offers Custom Channel and Player of Live Rock Recordings, Programmed by Legendary Sam Kopper Spinner.com, the first and largest Internet music service, today announced a strategic partnership with Phoenix Media Group, a New York-based record company, to launch Radio Phoenix. Through this partnership with Spinner.com, Phoenix Media will be able to deliver co-branded, top-quality streamed music to the desktops of music consumers via its Web site, www.radiophoenix.com. "Spinner.com is extremely excited to have the opportunity to be a part of the launch of Radio Phoenix," said Dave Samuel, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of Spinner.com. "The label offers a wealth of exclusive content capturing some of the defining moments in the history of rock. They have assembled an impressive catalogue of master tapes, complete with sound recording copyrights, of concerts by classic rock artists originally recorded for radio broadcast. Radio Phoenix will be programmed by radio pioneer Sam Kopper, a Phoenix senior partner. We feel that this represents a true best-of-breed partnership between an emerging rock label and the leader in programming streamed music over the Internet." Sam Kopper played an integral role in the emergence of FM Radio as the dominant radio format through his role in developing progressive rock as the first program director at WBCN WBCN Wide Band Communications Network in Boston and now continues at the forefront of the music industry by working with Spinner.com to create a customized music channel that reflects rock's greatest live moments from the Phoenix Media vault, a diverse collection of master tapes produced in connection with broadcast concerts. The Radio Phoenix branded music channel will complement Spinner.com's existing channel offering of more than 120 Channels and 175,000 songs. Phoenix's exclusive music will be featured on the Spinner.com site and players as the "Rare Live" channel, as well as on a co-branded Web streaming music player See digital media hub. (Spinner FacePlate) dubbed Radio Phoenix. The FacePlate will be promoted and accessible on the Phoenix Media Web site (www.radiophoenix.com). "Spinner.com will greatly enhance the offerings of our site," said Tad Flynn, managing partner and CEO of Phoenix Media. "As the world's leading Internet music broadcaster, they will intensify our user's online experience through the addition of music played across the rock genre -- from Spinner.com's existing database and channel offerings, as well as from the unique Radio Phoenix channel programmed exclusively for our online users. As an independent label focusing on great past and present moments in live music this offers a unique opportunity to continue to serve our core customer needs." The customized Radio Phoenix FacePlate, a co-branded version of the Web-based Spinner.com player, will be available free of charge to all Internet users. The Web player will feature Phoenix's "Rare Live" channel, a focused selection of seven other Spinner.com channels; and a link to the Phoenix Store where consumers can shop for live and studio CDs, T-shirts, and more. The Radio Phoenix FacePlate is scheduled to launch May 11, 1999. About Spinner.com Spinner.com is the first and largest Internet music service with a database of 175,000 digitized songs delivered on 120+ highly specialized music channels. Covering an unprecedented depth and breadth of music programming -- with channels such as 90's Rock, Bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. , British Invasion British Invasion Musical movement. In the mid 1960s the popularity of a number of British rock-and-roll (“beat”) groups spread rapidly to the U.S., beginning with the triumphant arrival of Liverpool's Beatles in New York in 1964 and continuing with the Rolling , Chicago Blues This article may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since June 2007. , Top Pop, Great Guitar, Jungle and Latin -- Spinner.com reaches one million unique listeners per month, broadcasting 1.75 million songs per day. The Spinner.com music players -- the stand-alone Internet application Spinner Plus and the Web-based Spinner -- display song information as music is played, while providing dynamic links that enable online purchasing and real-time listener feedback. Based in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Spinner.com combines the power of the Internet with advanced digital audio technology to raise entertainment to a new octave. Spinner.com investors include Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation. In 1988, Sony Corporation acquired CBS Records, Inc. for $2 billion. CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name, and Sony renamed the label , Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking , Amerindo Investment Firm, IDG IDG International Data Group IDG Integrated Drive Generator IDG Installation Design Guide IDG Internet Discussion Group IDG Inset Dielectric Guide IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) Ventures, Arts Alliance, Phoenix Partners and Allen & Co. The company has partnerships with industry leaders including RealNetworks, Amazon.com, @Home Network, as well as 350 record labels. New listeners can visit Spinner.com and download a free player at www.spinner.com. About Phoenix Media Group The Phoenix Media Group is a privately held record company whose vision and mission is to provide a recording and multi-media forum for musicians who embrace live performance as a foundation for their art. Phoenix Media releases recordings of both new studio and live projects by artists that combine strong songwriting with vibrant and constantly evolving live performances through its Phoenix Rising label and both releases and licenses recordings of classic rock concerts by a diverse array of artists through its Phoenix Gems label. Radio Phoenix lies at the core of the company's Internet strategy for communicating directly with its target consumers. Current releases on Phoenix Rising include Kingfish kingfish, common name for several fishes, among them the croaker and pompano. kingfish Any of various fishes, among them certain species of mackerel and a drum. (featuring Matthew Kelly For the musician associated with Ratdog, Kingfish, and T-Bone Walker, see . Matthew Kelly (born, 9 May 1950, Urmston, Lancashire, England) is an English actor, who made his name as a television presenter. with guest performances from Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia); the young, talented and turbo-charged Foxtrot foxtrot one of the two artificial gaits of the five-gaited horse. A four-beat gait midway in speed between a walk and a trot. There is a great deal of similarity with several other gaits such as amble, fadge, slow pace, stepping pace, running walk, jog, hound jog. 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