"The musical depth is astounding when you get into it, " says Van Zandt, who runs his own record label and hosts a radio show.

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He owns a nightclub, various restaurants, a newspaper, a radio station, his own record label and a state-of-the-art recording studio where young artists can develop their careers, and where he produces several of his own albums every year, aimed at the African market.

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He had jumped to a major label, and racked up some radio hits with a glossier sound and homespun ballads.

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The deal is the first time any radio company has agreed to pay performance royalties to a record label for use of their sound recordings.

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He made his first radio broadcast in 1945 and cut his first records for a Belgian label, Olympia, in 1947.

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The band soon found a fan in legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel and were then signed to the major record label Sire Records by Seymour Stein, the man responsible for signing Madonna a few years later.

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At the time Field had no label employees and no distribution deal, and Custom demanded that he be on the radio in September.

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Call it the holy grail of radio transmissions if you must, but even if you're not about to toss that label on it, there's no question that the work being done in Stanford's engineering labs could destroy quite a few preconceived notions about wireless interference.

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Microsoft has teamed up with a Hong Kong record label to record a Canto-pop anti-piracy anthem, which is played on local radio.

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At the time Field's label had no employees and no distribution deal, and Levold demanded that he be on the radio in September.

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