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Swiss
majorlabels stopped working with Swiss alternative-radios and
DJLeo:
Official
press-statement of the radios: here
Orkus
– Important Germand Gothic-magazine
In
the article ORKUS claim that Swiss majorlabels try to monopolize
access to Swiss radio: Once all radios are plugged to their
MPN-system and paying for it they might be trying to make money from
littel bands and indielabels. That would mean: everyone who wants to
be played on Swiss radio had to use MPN as well. Therefore he had to
pay to upload histracks (about 75 Euros per track). April
2011
Schweizer
Journalist (important Swiss media-magazine) – Part
1 Part
2
A
story about the discriminating politics of Swiss majors that
specially harms their musicians and concert organizers. Further the
author recalls that DJLeo has been uninvited by Sony music from
guest-list of the Hurts-concert in Zurich – just because he wanted
to his job and announced he'd would inform the band that no
Unikom-radio has got
their album. March 2011
NEWS June 7, 2011!!! National Swiss TV SF1, «10 vor 10»: WEKO has started investigating against the majorlabels and IFPI (most important Swiss media)
June/july 2011:
MPN (Music Promotion Network) of Swiss majorlabels is now under observation of Swiss Competition Commission (WEKO) as well! They are investigating at Swiss majorlabels and their «discriminiating promotion politics» (Unikom). Majors force radios + journalists to use their «music promotion network»-system MPN.
Radio 24 (big Swiss commercial radio)
National
Swiss Radio DRS
Basler
Zeitung
NZZ
Musikmarkt
some other articles:
Blick
(june 7, 2011): One
of the biggest Swiss newspapers
Tagesanzeiger
(june 6, 2011) One
of the biggest Swiss newspapers
Tagesanzeiger
(june 7, 2011) One
of the biggest Swiss newspapers
20
Minuten (june 7, 2011) Switzerland's
biggest Swiss newspaper
Tagesanzeiger
(june 7, 2011) One
of the biggest Swiss newspapers
Der
Bund (june 7, 2011) Important
Swiss newspaper
baz,
Basler Zeitung (june 7, 2011)
Big
Swiss newspaper
Handelszeitung
(june 7, 2011) Big Swiss newspaper
Competition Commission WEKO have a look at the charts. Also in their research: Music Promotion Network (MPN) of the majorlabels.
Moneycab (june 7, 2011) Big Swiss Blog
«Competition Commission WEKO have a look as well at (...) Music Promotion Network (MPN). Non-comemrcial-radios fighted against it and built their own (Open-Broadcast-)internetplatform to avoid the big costs for MPN.»
NZZ
am Sonntag (one
of Switzerland's important Sunday-newspapers)
Now
the Competition Commission WEKO starts to investigate: Dute to NZZ
there seems to be another scandal about Swiss majors and their
holding organization going on. Are official Swiss charts manipulated
by them?
Quote: ｫThe
submission of iMusician Digital claims that they are abusing their
marketing power (...) and try to regulate with (...) MPN what radios
have to playｻ.
April
2011
Laut.de
(important German blog)
„Swiss
people revolt against the charts".
April
22, 2011
78's
(one of the biggest Swiss music-blogs)
They
collected more than 1150 signatures in a few days to stop the
broadcast of official Swiss charts on natiopnal radio DRS3, due to
suspected manipulation.
April
22, 2011
Der
Sonntag (one of Switzerland's leading Sunday-newspapers)
„The
competition commission (WEKO) has a close look at musicindustry“
April
10, 2011
More
selected articles 2011:
Aargauer
Zeitung (Feb 2011)
Der
Landbote (Feb 2011)
Südostschweiz
(Feb 2011)
Cash
(march 2011)
Bieler
Tagblatt (Feb 2011)
Werbewoche
(march 2011)
Further
Infos
Press
2010 (archive)
Musikmarkt
(important German/Swiss mediamagazine)
Article
about Motor-Music-CEO Tim Renner who helps our radios and can't
understand the politics of Swiss majors either. June
2010
Edito (important Swiss mediamagazine)
Artcile about the strange majorlabel-politics in Switzerland. April 2010
Tele
M1: watch
here
Chris
Von Rohr from Krokus promises his support to our radios. April
2010
Tim
Renner, founder Motor Entertainment (Ex-Universal-CEO Germany)
„I
can't understand that in Switzerland they block those (radios and
journalists) who want to do something else than to play the hits. If
the altrenative radios in Switzerland don't get served from the four
major record companys anymore we haveto go there and help. From a
similar case in Berlin we know what it means to be blocked. That's
why we send our ｫmotor
careｻ
on
its way". May
2010
„20
minutes", Switzerland biggest newspaper:
„Big
labels against small radios“ April
2010
„20
minutes", Switzerland biggest newspaper:
„Now
there's are lot of new CDs (from major-bands) missing", claims
Sankt Gallen's leading Radio station Toxic FM. May
2010
Musikmarkt,
leading German musicbusiness-magazine
“Alternative
radios often are the only ones who play music apart from mainstream,
present new bands and Cds, tell people about concerts, do interviews
with the artists or are mediapartners with clubs and festivals. Tim
Renner (Motor Entertainment-boss) agress with that. That's why he
started his "Motor Care"-action. May
13, 2010
Mittelland
Zeitung (3rd-biggest Swiss daily newspaper, june 2010)
„We
might have to think about booking bands of those labels in he future"
(Free
and Virgin angency).
Tages
Anzeiger (one of the biggest daily Swiss newspapers)
ｫThe
victims 8of the politics of Swiss major labels) are the less-known
bands, bookers and their managementsｻ
May
2010
VIDEO:
Tele Bärn
In
this video, Chris Von Rohr from Swiss hardrock-stars Krokus is very
upset about the politics of the majors.
Bieler
Tagblatt, big daily newspaper
ｫEven
uploading of a song or album to MPN costs between 100 and 130 Swiss
Franks – more than the shipping of the CDs to all Swiss radiosｻ,
claims Carlo Pozzi from EMI music Switzerland.
April
27, 2010
Mittelland
Zeitung (3rd-biggest Swiss daily newspaper)
ｫAs
a consequency of Swiss major label's refusal to cooperate,
alternative radio stations are now playing bands that are not signed
to nay of them. ｫIt
seems, the major labels are have big financial problems...ｻ
April
2010
Tagblatt
(big daily newspaper from Sankt Gallen)
ｫNon-commercial
Swiss radio stations are shocked: big Swiss labels EMI, Universal,
Sony Music and Warner are not sending them any new music anymore.
They now want radios to pay for their own download-platform NPMｻ.
May,
2010
Cash
(big Swiss financial newspaper)
„After
alternative radio stations refused to pay for MPN and use it, they
are not getting any new music and information of those four majors
anymore".
April
2010
20
minutes (Switzerland biggest daily newspaper)
The
costst for MPN are not high for commercial radio stations. But for
alternative stations such as radio Lora/Zurich or Rabe (Bern)
(...) it is not possible to payｻ.
April
2010
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