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We were hanging around last Monday as the bands got ready for our Word In Your Ear show with David Ford and My Darling Clementine. The sound and lights were being looked after by a young woman dressed like Tank Girl. The guitarist with My Darling Clementine, pub-rock veteran Martin Belmont, was talking about back pain and anti-inflammatory pills. The drummer mentioned he used to subscribe to my magazine. Which one? The Word? No. Smash Hits.I get glimpses occasionally but I can no longer accurately work out generations of music people.Music's like a long train. Some people got on at the beginning of the line. Others join it later. They can explore the rest of the carriages but their experience of the journey will not be the same as the people who got on earlier. The passengers who've been there longest may point out that the train is going round in circles and has passed certain landmarks before. The newer passengers don't care. It's new to them. In fact they might get excited about a station which they previously passed through without comment. Their view of the journey is a different one. Unlike real trains, this one has unlimited capacity. Once you're on the train, nobody checks your ticket.And here's the really significant thing, the thing which has more bearing on the music economy than file sharing and whatever happens to be the latest thing. More and more people get on but hardly anyone gets off, unless, of course, they're compelled by forces beyond their control.

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Mr. Johnson was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, television commentator and author who spent most of his career at The Washington Post and won wide acclaim for his coverage of the capital.

Nearly 20 years into a stint that saw him steer an unscripted slate that included the likes of When Animals Attack! and American Idol, Fox president of alternative entertainment Mike Darnell is leaving the network. Sources said that while Fox looked to retain Darnell’s services, the 51-year-old programmer has decided to part ways with the broadcaster after his contract expires on June 30. In a statement released Friday night, Darnell said that he simply wants to “try something new.” “I’ve been in ‘reality’ since before it was even called that, and it has truly been an amazing ride,” Darnell said. “However, the world has changed drastically over the last few years, and now with hundreds of channels and limitless ways to watch television, I’ve decided this was the perfect time to take advantage of the rapidly changing marketplace.” Fox is expected to begin searching for Darnell’s replacement after the Memorial Day break. Over the course of his colorful career, Darnell oversaw a number of monster hits, including the unimpeachable Idol franchise. And regardless of what the intelligentsia may have thought about lowest-common-denominator fare like Temptation Island and My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé, these curiosities scared up ratings that the current broadcast environment cannot deliver. The first season of Temptation Island drew a whopping 9.0 in the 18-49 demo, while MBFOF averaged a 7.9 over the course of its six-episode run. Darnell’s departure comes on the heels of a particularly tough run for American Idol, which in Season 12 averaged 13.2 million viewers and a 3.8 in the all-important 18-49 demo. (While that was a steep decline from Idol’s heyday, the show still ranks among broadcast’s top five shows.) Idol remains a cash cow for Fox, but if the show is to continue generating in excess of $800 million in annual ad sales revenue, it must make some bold staffing moves. Reports have Kelly Rowland joining the judges’ panel in 2014; Idol could do worse than hire a few of her fellow alums. (Kelly Clarkson is perhaps the most successful Idol veteran and it’s not like Katharine McPhee has any conflicting TV commitments.) News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch bade farewell to Darnell, lauding the outgoing exec for taking risks and proving himself “a pioneering force in shaping the reality programming genre that exists today." Murdoch went on to characterize Darnell as “a smart and fearless executive who will be missed.” Fox scheduler emeritus Preston Beckman also gave Darnell a shout-out.

The measure also bans the sale of alcoholic drinks between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., except in tourist zones, and prohibits alcohol sales near mosques and schools.

Mike Darnell, who has supervised reality programming for Fox since before the term reality show entered the lexicon, oversaw “American Idol,” once the most popular show on American TV.

Despite President Obama’s conciliatory gesture of a review of Justice Department investigations involving journalists, some reporters say that chill has already set in.

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The broadcast and cable TV networks have wrapped up their spring narcissistic extravaganzas that try to seduce TV buyers to invest their ad dollars in programming that will appear next fall.

BOSTON – Spuul, a Singpore-based Netflix-like movie streaming service, is aiming to build the largest legal platform for Indian film and television content, says Michael Smith, Jr., chief product officer for Spuul. Spuul targets two audiences – people who live in India and people outside of India who love Bollywood, particularly those who have emigrated from India. Spuul’s library consists of around 900 movies and 200 to 300 TV show episodes. While there are other Indian content sites, Smith says no one was working to provide a service like this worldwide. Beet.TV spoke with Smith earlier this month at the Brightcove global customer conference in Boston. Read more about Spuul and its 2012 launch in Pando Daily.