{"id":333,"date":"2004-05-26T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/05\/frontline_the_way_the_music_died\/"},"modified":"2004-05-26T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2004-05-26T14:00:22","slug":"frontline_the_way_the_music_died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/26\/frontline_the_way_the_music_died\/","title":{"rendered":"FrontLine: The Way the Music Died"},"content":{"rendered":"

Set your TiVos for FrontLine’s special report on the music industry, ‘The Way the Music Died’<\/a>. Here’s what the show is about:<\/p>\n

\nThe modern music scene was created in 1969, at Woodstock. Half a million fans, dozens of artists, and the politics of the times came together as a big bang moment that eventually would generate billions of dollars. But over the last twenty years, MTV, compact discs, corporate consolidation, Internet piracy, and greed have contributed to a perfect storm for the recording industry. FRONTLINE examines how the business that has provided the soundtrack of the lives of a generation is on the verge of collapse.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The show airs May 27th. <\/p>\n

Also be sure to check out “What’s Wrong with the Music Industry in One Long Sentence<\/a>“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Set your TiVos for FrontLine’s special report on the music industry, ‘The Way the Music Died’. Here’s what the show is about: The modern music scene was created in 1969, at Woodstock. Half a million fans, dozens of artists, and the politics of the times came together as a big bang moment that eventually would… Continue reading FrontLine: The Way the Music Died<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7,11,16,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":241,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/05\/future_of_digital_music_downloading\/","url_meta":{"origin":333,"position":0},"title":"Future of Digital Music Downloading","date":"November 5, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"The Economist has an article exploring whether the threat of online piracy is receding. 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