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In 2004, British Telecommunications (BT), which offers telecom, broadband, and networked IT services in over 170 countries, became the sponsor of the Interactive Music Awards. Now called the BTDMAs (BT Digital Music Awards), the show exclusively honors digital music entertainment. Elevated to better and bigger venues over the years, it’s now televised.

Not surprisingly, the 2008 BTDMA Artist of the Year award went to Radiohead. The group had an unprecedented online album release in 2007 in which it let fans decide how much they wanted to pay for the album download.

Coldplay won for Best Rock/Indie Artist and Best Official Web Site for a musical group.

  own a busy cafe-delicatessen with 25 employees. All the workers except two enjoy listening to background music from the radio while they work, as do I; those two say it irritates them, gives them headaches and makes it hard to talk to the customers. I turned off the music, but most of my workers say I’m unfair. Should I heed the majority or respect the wishes of those two employees? H.D., NEW YORK

Headaches? Are the antimusic duo misrepresenting their distress as a chronic medical condition, like those cabdrivers who were “allergic” to cigarettes? I admire both your concern for working conditions and your nod to workplace democracy. And while the minority should be protected from the tyranny of the majority — or else we would all be assailed by the Top 40 — here you have a supermajority, 24 out of 26, more than what’s needed to break a filibuster or override a presidential veto, a near-consensus worth heeding. Are there situations when majorities are too slight to set some policies? Yes. Is this one? No.

One way to proceed gently: introduce music so quiet that it’s barely audible, then gradually increase the volume each day, leveling off when the two holdouts object. Who knows: they might get used to it or even come to like it.

UPDATE: Soft music now plays on weekends and holidays when the two audiophobes are off. Employer, employees and customers enjoy it.

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CBS has ordered eight episodes of “Jingles,” a nonscripted skein from Mark Burnett in which contestants compete to dream up memorable melodies on behalf of real products.

Welcome to Jingle University and the world of “JINGLOLOGY ” (Jingle-ol-ogy). I have had the honor of studying nearly all aspects of all those cute, creative and powerful jingles for over 35 years. I have written, arranged, produced, mixed and sold thousands of jingles of every length and style.

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executive producers — even working in the same area of the entertainment industry — don’t necessarily share the same responsibilities. They may have overall responsibility for nearly everything, handle a specific area of the project or have no greater responsibility than funding the project, providing support or lending their name to boost publicity and sales.