http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/ en First Media Communications, Inc. Copyright 2010 2010-01-16T19:49:47+00:00 http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/radio_oasis_joins_itunes/ http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/radio_oasis_joins_itunes/#When:19:49:47Z Nashville, TN — First Media Communications, Inc. today announced that it has entered into an online marketing agreement with Cupertino, CA based Apple Inc. to provide streamed audio content to Apple's iTunes online entertainment portal.   Under the agreement, First Media will provide streamed audio content to iTunes via its Radio Oasis(SM) music channel. A leading Internet-based music channel known for its unique blend of current hits, album tracks, and independent releases from both established and emerging artists, Radio Oasis(SM) will serve as a featured station in the iTunes media player.   The agreement expands the company's role as both an iTunes streamed music supplier and an online retail merchant affiliate, while extending the company's marketing reach to millions of new listeners from the iTunes worldwide audience.   First Media Communications, Inc. is an integrated music and media company based in Nashville, Tennessee (http://www.first-media.com/).  Its operations include music content and community portal Destination: Music®, Internet-based music channel Radio Oasis(SM), music publishing companies Brentwood Hills Music, Inc. (ASCAP) and Miss Amy Music, Inc. (BMI), and the Next Horizon® record label. 2010-01-16T19:49:47+00:00 http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/first_media_enters_licensing_agreement_with_microsoft/ http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/first_media_enters_licensing_agreement_with_microsoft/#When:19:42:03Z Nashville, TN — First Media Communications, Inc. today announced that it has entered into an online content licensing agreement with Microsoft to provide music and related audio content to Microsoft's Windows Media online entertainment portal.   Under the agreement, First Media will provide streamed audio content to Windows Media via its Radio Oasis(SM) music channel. A leading Internet-based music channel known for its unique blend of current hits, album tracks, and independent releases, Radio Oasis(SM) will continue to serve as a featured station in the Windows Media player.   The company first established a content licensing agreement with Windows Media in 2006. The new agreement expands the company's role as a licensed provider for Windows Media and provides extensive marketing and promotion of Radio Oasis(SM) to millions of listeners from the Windows Media audience.   First Media Communications, Inc. is an integrated music and media company based in Nashville, Tennessee (http://www.first-media.com/).  Its operations include music content and community portal Destination: Music®, Internet-based music channel Radio Oasis(SM), music publishing companies Brentwood Hills Music, Inc. (ASCAP) and Miss Amy Music, Inc. (BMI), and the Next Horizon® record label. 2010-01-16T19:42:03+00:00 http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/worldcast_network_adds_american_express/ http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/worldcast_network_adds_american_express/#When:19:34:07Z Nashville, TN — First Media Communications, Inc. today announced that its WorldCast® music network has added American Express to its online merchant affiliate program.   As a new online merchant affiliate, American Express joins more than a dozen leading advertisers already participating in First Media's online merchant program, including iTunes, AT&T, The Body Shop, Netflix, Dell, Radio Shack, Mondera, Sharper Image, Pet Smart, and StubHub.   A member of the Linkshare network, First Media began its online retail affiliate program in January 2006.   First Media Communications, Inc. is an integrated music and media company based in Nashville, Tennessee (http://www.first-media.com/).  Its operations include online music magazine Destination: Music®, Internet-based music channel Radio Oasis(SM), music publishing companies Brentwood Hills Music, Inc. (ASCAP) and Miss Amy Music, Inc. (BMI), and the Next Horizon® record label. 2010-01-16T19:34:07+00:00 http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/worldcast_network_announces_new_affiliates/ http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/worldcast_network_announces_new_affiliates/#When:19:28:11Z Nashville, TN — First Media Communications, Inc. today announced that its WorldCast® music network has added several high profile national advertisers to its online merchant affiliate program, including The BodyShop, Mondera, Radisson Hotels & Resorts, Orbitz, Mrs. Fields, Cheryl & Co., and Nutrisystem.    Each of the new online marketing affiliates will begin advertising throughout the company's Radio Oasis® and Destination: Music® web sites, joining more than a dozen leading retailers and advertisers already participating in First Media's online merchant program, including iTunes, AT&T, Dell, Netflix, Radio Shack, Sharper Image, Pet Smart, SpaFinder, and StubHub.   A member of the Linkshare network, First Media began its online retail affiliate program in 2006.   First Media Communications, Inc. is an integrated music and media company based in Nashville, Tennessee (http://www.first-media.com/).  Its operations include music content and community portal Destination: Music®, Internet-based music channel Radio Oasis(SM), music publishing companies Brentwood Hills Music, Inc. (ASCAP) and Miss Amy Music, Inc. (BMI), and the Next Horizon® record label. 2010-01-16T19:28:11+00:00 http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/worldcast_network_joins_with_stubhub/ http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/worldcast_network_joins_with_stubhub/#When:19:23:15Z Nashville, TN — First Media Communications, Inc. today announced that its WorldCast® music network has added online ticketing marketer StubHub to its online merchant affiliate program.    StubHub, a division of San Francisco, California-based StubHub, Inc., is a leading online ticket marketplace for concert, theater, sporting and other live and special events. The alliance will make StubHub the exclusive online ticket merchant for First Media's WorldCast® music network, which includes its Destination: Music® and Radio Oasis(SM) online services.    StubHub will join more than a dozen leading retailers and advertisers in First Media's online merchant program, including iTunes, AT&T, Dell, Netflix, Radio Shack, Sharper Image, and Pet Smart.   First Media Communications, Inc. is an integrated music and media company based in Nashville, Tennessee (http://www.first-media.com/).  Its operations include music content and community portal Destination: Music®, Internet-based music channel Radio Oasis(SM), music publishing companies Brentwood Hills Music, Inc. (ASCAP) and Miss Amy Music, Inc. (BMI), and the Next Horizon® record label. 2010-01-16T19:23:15+00:00 http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/next_horizon_reissues_catalog/ http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/next_horizon_reissues_catalog/#When:19:16:19Z Nashville, TN — First Media Communications, Inc. today announced that its independent Next Horizon® record label will reissue newly remastered recordings from its proprietary music catalog for digital distribution as part of its agreement with the Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA).    Titles slated for reissue in the digital format include jazz releases Stranger Things Have Happened by The Prodigal Sons and Secret of Life by Contempo Trio, alternative country release The Guthrie Brothers by The Guthrie Brothers, contemporary orchestral release The Possible by Robert Miller, and pop/rock release The Best of The James Project by The James Project. Each title will be available worldwide via IODA's digital distribution network at online retail outlets including iTunes, Rhapsody, Lala and eMusic.   First Media Communications, Inc. is an integrated music and media company based in Nashville, Tennessee (http://www.first-media.com/).  Its operations include music content and community portal Destination: Music®, Internet-based music channel Radio Oasis(SM), music publishing companies Brentwood Hills Music, Inc. (ASCAP) and Miss Amy Music, Inc. (BMI), and the Next Horizon® record label. 2010-01-16T19:16:19+00:00 http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/first_media_inks_distribution_deal/ http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/first_media_inks_distribution_deal/#When:19:10:22Z Nashville, TN — First Media Communications, Inc. today announced that its Next Horizon® independent record label has entered into an agreement to distribute its proprietary music catalog with the Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA).  Based in San Francisco, California, IODA is one of the nation's leading distributors of digital media throughout the world. Its extensive online distribution network includes more than 250 digital retailers and marketers, including iTunes, Rhapsody, Lala, and eMusic.   Under the agreement, Next Horizon® will distribute its catalog exclusively via IODA's worldwide digital network.   First Media Communications, Inc. is an integrated music and media company based in Nashville, Tennessee (http://www.first-media.com/).  Its operations include music content and community portal Destination: Music®, Internet-based music channel Radio Oasis(SM), music publishing companies Brentwood Hills Music, Inc. (ASCAP) and Miss Amy Music, Inc. (BMI), and the Next Horizon® record label. 2010-01-16T19:10:22+00:00 http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/radio_oasis_joins_windows_media/ http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/radio_oasis_joins_windows_media/#When:19:03:28Z Nashville, TN — First Media Communications, Inc. today announced that its Internet-based music channel, Radio Oasis (SM) has been selected to join the Windows Media online entertainment Media Guide as a featured radio station (http://www.windowsmedia.com/Mediaguide/Home).   As one of a dozen featured channels in the Windows Media Radio Tuner, Radio Oasis will reach a wide international audience of Windows Media users, further expanding its growing audience of adult listeners.  Radio Oasis will also receive featured promotion within various Windows Media Guide web pages, including the online entertainment portal’s Music, Radio, and Adult Rock pages.   With more than 30 million active users worldwide, Windows Media, a division of Microsoft Corporation, is one of the world’s leading entertainment media technologies.  Its online Radio Tuner currently includes a selection of more than two thousand Internet-based and terrestrial channels.    First Media Communications, Inc. is an integrated music and media company based in Nashville, Tennessee (http://www.first-media.com/).  Its operations include consumer-oriented music portal Destination: Music®, Internet-based music channel Radio Oasis(SM), music publishing companies Brentwood Hills Music, Inc. (ASCAP) and Miss Amy Music, Inc. (BMI), and the Next Horizon® record label. 2010-01-16T19:03:28+00:00 http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/first_media_posts_strong_results/ http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/first_media_posts_strong_results/#When:18:52:34Z Nashville, TN — First Media Communications, Inc. today reported strong quarterly results for its newly restructured online media operations, including its online music magazine Destination: Music® and its Internet-based music channel, Radio Oasis(SM).   In its first full quarter of operations since the reorganization of its online media properties, the company reported 14.6 million total page requests, for an average of 162,682 daily page requests during the period.  The company also reported that it served 128,000 hours of original audio programming and attracted just over a quarter million unique listeners, or 251,683, during the quarter.   Visitors spent an average of 9 minutes, 31 seconds at the company’s consumer-oriented web sites, compared to 57 seconds, on average, across all U.S. web usage in March according statistics published by Nielsen Net Ratings, a global leader in Internet media and market research. The average time spent listening among total listeners at Radio Oasis during the period was 121 minutes.   An affiliate of the Linkshare network, the company delivered 3.6 million page views for its advertisers during the period, which included iTunes, AT&T, Dell, Netflix, Radio Shack, Sharper Image and Overstock.com.   First Media Communications, Inc. is an integrated music and media company based in Nashville, Tennessee (http://www.first-media.com/).  Its operations include consumer-oriented retail portal Destination: Music®, Internet-based music channel Radio Oasis(SM), music publishing companies Brentwood Hills Music, Inc. (ASCAP) and Miss Amy Music, Inc. (BMI), and the Next Horizon® record label. 2010-01-16T18:52:34+00:00 http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/first_media_expands_online_network/ http://www.first-media.com/index.php/news/first_media_expands_online_network/#When:18:49:38Z Nashville, TN — First Media Communications, Inc. today announced the launch of its newly designed, expanded webcasting portal, the WorldCast Network®.    The redesigned webcasting portal, which currently features 24/7 music streams from the company's Radio Oasis (SM) adult rock channel and from the Internet's leading independent music streaming brand, Club 977, provides online listeners with a variety of format choices and related content and retail links.  The company offers both low and high bandwidth options for its featured webcasting streams, and plans to expand its offerings to include additional audio and video streams in the future, as well as portable "podcast" versions of its most popular entertainment and news offerings.    The WorldCast Network® was first launched in 2001 as a companion music portal to the company's Music Direct e-commerce division.    First Media Communications, Inc. is an integrated music and media company based in Nashville, Tennessee (http://www.first-media.com/). 2010-01-16T18:49:38+00:00