Home | Promote Music | Bookstore | Articles | Resource Directory | Buy & Sell | Music Law | Subscribe Music Distribution | Radio Promotion | Web Hosting | CD Art | CD Mfg. | Get Representation | Opportunities Radio and Television Support for Independent Musicians Interested in getting your music on radio, film, or television? This is our directory of recommended radio promoters as well as radio and television programs supporting independent music. Don't miss our featured book, How To Promote Your Music on the Internet! Back to The Musician's Directory For All Your Radio Promotion Needs, Let Us Suggest.... Radio & Retail Promotion Services Let our expert consultants promote your music to radio and retail outlets! They will make all the arrangements - on-air interviews, pre-promotion, CD reviews, college, public and commercial radio, retail promotion and more. Your radio/retail campaign will be custom designed to get the biggest bang for the buck! All stations are hand-picked, to ensure your radio/retail campaign perfectly fits the audience you are targeting. Details here... For Representation of Your for Film & TV, We Recommend... NOMA Music NOMA Music is a multicredited music licensing company and song publisher. They represent worldwide bands, songwriters, and composers who are interested in licensing, and of course, earning money and royalties from having their original music used in feature and indie motion pictures, television, and other multi media projects. Some of their represented acts have songs currently heard in television shows airing on HBO, Warner Brothers, FOX, UPN, Touchstone, Paramount, Showtime, Sci Fi Channel, and FX Networks, as well as in motion pictures and commercial DVD releases. NOMA offers tremendous opportunities for the indie and established artist from the hundreds of production companies, directors and producers they have working relationships with, and as a client of theirs, your music will be made accessible to them. There are NO up-front fees, period. NOMA Music earns its money through licensing on a commission only basis. Thus, the only way NOMA benefits financially is when YOU benefit financially. More details here. Updated 10/15/2007   Additional Radio and Television Support for Independent Musicians Listed alphabetically starting with the letter 'I'.... (starting letters rotate periodically to give all sites equal exposure) Latest Review added here 02/16/2007. Don't miss this weeks featured listing on our home page. I Write The Songs: Songwriters Radio Show Here's an Internet broadcast that songwriters might find useful. Each show includes interview segments (past interviewees have included Willie Nelson, Carol Bayer Sager, Janis Ian and others), an instructional segment, stories from successful songwriters, and on-air critiques of original songs. The site also features a 'question of the week,' and articles. Services offered include seminars, critiques, consultation, as well as links to songwriting tools and products. Added 01/02/2003. See also Music Tutorials. MusiciansCast.com MusiciansCast is a free and informative podcast dedicated to helping musicians navigate the difficult road to success. Professional musician Jonn Savannah, Internet Entreprenuer Peter Bowman and legendary recording engineer Shelly Yakus team up to discuss issues and opportunities facing the upstreaming artist and/or band. The shows may be downloaded, streamed or subscribed to through RSS. A great podcast to keep up on what's happening. Added 01/01/2007. Online Radio Promotion If you are an artist seeking exposure for your music, Online Radio Promotion (a subdivision of Evolution Promotion) targets licensed online radio stations in all formats, but only to licensed stations that pay royalties to artists for airplay. ORP gets their artist’s songs directly to the decision makers at online radio including XM, Sirius, Music Choice, DMX, AOL, Yahoo, Live 365, Shoutcast, NBOX, SWCast.net, DJUnion and others thru their digital delivery system. It's $500 for a 13 week promotion campaign for one song. Added 02/16/2007. Planetary Group Radio Promotion The Planetary Group has been promoting music to radio 1996, specializing in helping bands and musicians get radio airplay around the country. Depending on your goals, they can develop a targeted radio campaign for you with either a national or regional focus. They'll target specific stations for you and set up radio interviews in your touring markets wherever possible. Planetary has worked with some big names and has a good reputation. Here's a client list. Added 08/11/2006. PodOmatic Ready to create your own Podcast? PodOmatic specializes in tools and services that enable anyone to easily find, create, distribute, promote and listen to both audio and video podcasts. The premiere destination for veteran and novice podcast creators and consumers alike, PodOmatic is the largest and most widely used service for creating and hosting podcasts. Their FREE service gives you 500 MB of storage and 15 GB monthly downloads. So if you want to try your hand at Podcasting, here's a good starting point. Added 01/26/2007. Pump Audio If you're in the market to license your music to TV, film, video games or other advertisers, check out Pump Audio. With your permission, Pump Audio will include your music in their database for promotion and possible licensing to their clients. You keep all copyright, ownership and publishing rights, and receive 50% of the licensing fees billed to their production clients if your music is used. There's NO submission fee, it's non-exclusive, and you retain 100% ownership of your songs. Based on feedback we've heard from artists, this is one of the best song licensing agencies around. Well worth investigating. See also, Talent Agencies. Updated 10/23/2006.  ShockSoundPromotions.com Shocksoundpromotions.com is a national radio and media promotion agency focusing on urban music: Rap, R&B, and Hip Hop. SSP can introduce an artist's singles and albums to over 1000 radio outlets, as well as focus on 'street' promotion, taking your music right to the buyers via clubs, concerts or other key events. It doesn't matter if your artist or group is on a major or independent label, if you need someone with experience doing street or radio promotion, SSP can help. Updated 07/18/2003. Space 380 Music Promotion What does space 380 do? Space 380 helps you gain public & industry awareness, develop your ideal touring circuit, and sell CDs by integrating radio airplay, press coverage, tour promotion, retail awareness & TV commercials. Essentially, they can manage all your press, radio and promotional campaigns for you. They've got quite a client list (including a couple of big names), and plenty of artists to ask for references from. Added 08/31/2006.   Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour If you're an independent, folk/acoustic artist listen up! The Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour is a folk Americana radio program dedicated to grassroots and independent artists and includes feature segments on folk radio shows and venues around the world, plus a Folk/Americana/Bluegrass newscast each week. Woodsongs has a large list of 400 affiliated radio stations across the US, as well as Canada, and Europe. New artists are invited to submit material to appear on national broadcast of the show. Updated 04/07/2005.  Bryan Farrish Radio Promotion Bryan Farrish Radio Promotion handles the day to day phone/fax work required to promote your music to radio stations across the country. Using a comprehensive database of both non-commercial and commercial stations, the campaign begins with Bryan's staff calling radio programmers each week, informing them of the hot points of your project. All genre's, with the exception of Classical, are handled. The BFRP web site is very well designed, and there's a lot of great information about radio promotion here, even for those who are just researching their options. More info at the site. Updated 07/28/2005.  Suggest A Site For This Directory Would you like to recommend a web site for the MusicBizAcademy.com directory? Click here to tell us about it. We welcome any quality musicians resource, as well as music promotion tools, 'how to' articles, and pretty much anything music business related. We're NOT interested in band pages. Please be aware that due to the number of suggestions we receive, our current placement time is about 12 weeks. We will contact you if your site is selected. Thank you. Free Subscription to The Music Biz Digest! Promotion tips, articles, resources and news delivered to your inbox. Subscribe Here!   How to Promote Your Music Successfully on the Internet This easy-to-read guide to music promotion teaches you how to effectively sell your music online! Learn what works and what doesn't from a musician who's now promoting music on the Internet full time! More.... 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