Author: sbergman

“CBC’s classical music station, Radio Two, is revamping its evening and late-night programming in a bid to attract younger listeners.” The changes will include an increase in jazz and pop music programming, and a marked decrease in classical. The CBC says that fully half of the current Radio Two audience is over 65, and the changes were unavoidable.

After 13 years, it’s difficult for a film festival to maintain its edge and convince the world that it still has something fresh and challenging to say. But Sundance isn’t worried: it’s organizers have obviously figured out that “if you want to get people worked up, you can’t beat the combination of incendiary politics and twisted sex.”

Hollywood is considering a package of changes for its much-maligned film ratings system.”The most substantive rule change will let aggrieved filmmakers refer on appeal to other movies — for example, to argue that because another film was permitted to run a similar scene, their film should be permitted to as well… The ratings administration would [also] work on clarifying how its ratings are defined.”

High-definition digital radio is booming in the UK, offering crystal-clear sound and a wider range of listening options. But even though many American stations are now broadcasting in HD, consumers are largely unaware that the format even exists. “While the U.K. government — which controls much of the country’s broadcasting industry — was able to influence a national shift to digital, for-profit U.S. broadcasters were hesitant to embrace the unproven and expensive technology until satellite radio emerged as a competitive threat.”