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November 02, 2005
CD USA
Satellite television provider, DIRECTV, announced a new, original channel for their 2006 lineup featuring live performances by "popular music artists including the Goo Goo Dolls, Sean Paul, Ben Harper and David Gray." The artists on the press release are not exactly Swankster worthy, or critically acclaimed, but an interesting piece of news nonetheless.
More interesting, however, is that DIRECTV will be teaming up with online phenomenon MySpace.com to feature emerging artists on the new channel, which will be called CD USA. Both DIRECTV and MySpace are controlled by News Corp, who control about 135%* of the world’s media outlets. This is a fascinating cooperation between the Television and Internet medias. The MySpace network has taken off as a 2nd Generation version of Friendster and is now practically a requirement for bands and artists to extend their fan base by setting up a MySpace page.
I’m curious to see how prominent a role the MySpace emerging artists will play on this new channel. Taking a quick glance at the UK version, CD UK, it seems pretty bubblegumish. I do see The Darkness scheduled for next week though, so I’ll hold out hope for the American version.
Any British Swankster readers out there willing to share a word on CD UK?
*Exaggerated for humorous demonstration that News Corp owns lots of shit.
Tags: CD USA, DIRECTV, MySpace
Posted by Merry Swankster at November 2, 2005 05:56 PM
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