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...commercial hype is appropriate for a singer who made the trip from anonymity to commodity in no time flat. He was an instant sensation with the Jan. 27, 1956, release of his first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel." The following night he appeared on Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's Stage Show, flinging rock 'n roll into the faces of a slackjawed TV audience. In August he had the two-sided smash "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel." By November his first movie, Love Me Tender, was in the theaters. Five #1 singles, a debut album that went gold...
...nearly 90% of the market. They have used that power to maintain tight control over their networks. In this so-called walled garden, when you sign up to use a carrier, you can use only the services they want you to use. Imagine if Seinfeld were available only on RCA televisions. Or if your broadband service let you use Hotmail but not Gmail. That's not far from the state of the mobile-phone system today. The carriers rule...
...that newer HDMI sets will have this problem, but I imagine anyone with an older yet compatible set like mine should be ready for hiccups. Besides the HD-A1 and Toshiba's $800 premium HD-XA1, only one other HD DVD player is slated for introduction this year, RCA's $500 HDV5000. Incidentally, it, too, is built by Toshiba. (In the longer term, Microsoft has suggested that it may evangelize the technology in China, where manufacturers with weaker brands could make very affordable units...
Good news, budding music stars. You don’t have to skip town to get recorded. “Students don’t have to drop out of college to be musicians,” says Kamala S. Salmon ’03, who works for RCA Records. “There is a way to get their music out there besides trying to wait for an elusive record deal.” And she should know. Salmon founded Mala K Music, a record label that distributes music exclusively from Harvard alumni and students. The label?...
...media strategy, keeping her profile low so that audiences won't tire of her. (She didn't need to be cautioned to stay out of the tabloids; a big night out for her is Chili's and a movie with friends.) The Firm fought to make sure that RCA promoted Clarkson's music at radio stations and in stores and removed American Idol from her official bio. (A recent controversy in which Idol judge Simon Cowell alleged Clarkson had not authorized her songs for use on the show appears to have been a misunderstanding; Clarkson says she allowed their...