News Becomes Important Ingredient For Radio...

Radio Stations already offering news both on-air and online are smart to do so, according to a Pew Report on media consumption. Roughly a third (34%) of the public say they went online for news yesterday - on par with radio, and slightly higher than daily newspapers. The study, released yesterday reports that when cell phones, email, social networks and podcasts are added in, 44% of Americans say they got news through one or more internet or mobile digital source yesterday. The study says that with so many ways to get the news today, Americans are spending more time with the news than over much of the past decade. The average time Americans spend with the news on a given day is as high as it was in the mid-'90s, when audiences for traditional news sources were much larger...

In 2000, people spent about the same amount of time - 57 minutes on average getting the news from TV, radio or newspapers on a given day. With more sources available now (2010), they also spend an additional 13 minutes getting news online, increasing the total time spent with news to 70 minutes. Out of those 70 minutes, respondents spent 15 minutes listening to radio, the second most important news source. 32 minutes were spent watching TV news but radio (15) finished ahead of online (13) and newspapers (10) for news sources. The study, conducted June 8-28 on cell phones and landlines among 3,006 adults finds further evidence that the combination of digital and traditional platforms is leading to increased news consumption. It's interesting to note that 83% get news in one form or another as part of their daily life. Surprisingly even when cell phones, podcasts, social networks, email, Twitter and RSS feeds are accounted for, 17% of Americans say they got no news yesterday - about the same amount from previous years...

While young people are most likely to integrate new technologies into their daily lives, they are not using these sources to get news at higher rates than do older Americans. Rather, those in their 30s are the only age group in which a majority (57%) reports getting news on one or more digital platforms yesterday. There has also been a modest increase in time spent with the news among those 30 to 64 - but not among older and younger age groups...

10 Timeline Memories:
1.1960] Pay for play: The FCC adopts payola rules aka The "Alan Freed rules" after Freed and other disc jockeys were accused and in some cases fined and jailed for payola in the late 50s...
2.1970] Marathon man: The 1st NYC Marathon is won by Freeport (LI) firefighter Gary Muhrcke. Only 175 runners compete with 55 finishing. That race consisted of 4 laps around Central Park with no TV coverage or prizes. The race now covers all 5 boroughs and the number of runners could fill Yankee Stadium. It's also run the first weekend in November...
3.1971] Att-i-ca, Att-i-ca: The 4-day inmates' rebellion at the correctional facility in upstate NY ends as police and guards storm the prison. Forty-three die in the rioting...
4.1989] What's in a name?: Fay Vincent (whose name should have been reversed at birth) is named Commissioner of Baseball, succeeding the late A. Bart Giamatti...
5.1990] Premiered on this date: The original version of "Law & Order" premieres on NBC-TV...1993] "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" debuts on NBC. In 2009, Conan replaced Jay Leno on the Tonight Show. In 2010 he's headed for his own show on TBS...
6.1993] Count your fingers Yitzhak: Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands on an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy...
7.1996] "Happy Trails": Rapper Tupac Shakur dies 6 days after being shot in a drive-by shooting. Tupac was 25...1998] Former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace is a victim of Parkinson's disease at 79...
8.1998] Emmy Gold: "Frasier" wins a record 5th consecutive Emmy as TV's "Best Comedy Series"...
9.2001] Osama fingered: Secretary of State Colin Powell names Osama bin Laden the prime suspect in the terrorist attacks of 911. Limited commercial flights are restored for the 1st time since the attacks...
10.2007] Spygate: The NFL fines New England Patriots coach (In) Bill (We trust) Belichick $500,000 and the team $250,000 for spying on the New York Jets during a game - something totally unnecessary given the state of the Jets...

Music Memories:

• 1962] Number One on this date: "Sherry" - Four Seasons...
• 1965] Released on this date: "Yesterday" - Beatles...
• 1965] Grammy Gold: "Best Group of 1964": Beatles... "Best Male Vocalist": Louis Armstrong for "Hello Dolly"...

Commentary:
The Audio Engineering's New York Section will hold its annual September meeting with a screening of "Copyright Criminals" with a panel discussion to follow, hosted by Roger Johansen of Tangerine Mastering. The screening and panel discussion will be held at the New School's jazz performance space, 55 West 13th Street (5th fl.). The event starts tomorrow (9/14) at 6:30 pm...

"Happy Birthday...happy birthday":
Daisuke Matsuzaka (30), Stella McCartney (39), Bernie Williams (42), Zak Starkey (Ringo's son) (45), Jean Smart (59), Peter Cetera (66), Jacqueline Bisset (66), Blood, Sweat & Tears lead singer David Clayton-Thomas (69) & TV mogul Fred Silverman (73)...

Timeline Countdown: 5 nights until Yom Kippur, 10 days until autumn, 23 days until MLB playoffs start and 48 days until the first game of the World Series...