• Google is getting ready for its entry into the radio market. The company is reportedly hiring ad salespeople in most major markets, and it paying "about 50 percent more than a typical radio sales person might make." Its Google Audio Ads is the company's strategy to allow advertisers to sell radio ads in a way similar to how Internet advertisers buy ads with its AdWords system. (Read Reuters article)

• A transcript of Monday's RealNetworks Q3 2006 Conference Call. (Read post at SeekingAlpha)

• Post-Vivendi/KKR, everybody's talking about buyouts. A thought from This Is Money: "A warning last month that underlying halfyear profits will fall by almost a third to £27m after margins shrank at its recorded music arm increased speculation that a foreign bidder would soon come along and put Nicoli and his board out of their misery." (Read article at This Is Money)

• Kidz Bop has had far more ramifications than previously thought. Parents will probably like this stuff more: V2 in lauching an offshoot family label called Little Monster Records. The first release, a Beatles tribute/storybook, was just released. Medeski, Martin & Wood will do an album in first quarter 2007. The newest signing is Robert Schneider (Apples in Stereo) under the name Robert Bobbert and the Bubble Machine (visit his MySpace page). (Read press release)

• The country music industry has its sights set on the Hispanic market. (Read AP article)

[music jobs] Brand and Online Marketing Manager at The Ascot Club/Am Only; Brooklyn, NY.