HISTORY AND ORIGIN OF HOWARDROSENBEWARE.COM:

This is the story of how and why HowardRosenBeware.com was born. I encourage every visitor who has worked with Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. in the past or is currently working with them to confront their company on the key issues that will be brought up in this timeline and story that I am about to tell you.

So far, Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. has not admitted to lying and falsifying airplay reports, so that is why I encourage you to demand answers from them as to why they have not admitted doing anything wrong in their business practices. I think we all deserve to hear an answer and apology from Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. As you can see from this website, I am not here to "tickle" anybody's ears and I am certainly not afraid to lose any friends of those who do not grasp the reality of what happened with my dealings of Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. I will begin my story by starting with the first meeting I had with Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. in Van Nuys, California.

On Friday, February 2nd, 2006, my associate and I met with Howard Rosen at his office in Van Nuys, California to discuss the agreement of an airplay promotion for an artist we represent. The agreement appeared and sounded good, so we made the decision to hire their company, but little did we know what would happen (or actually, not happen) during the term of our 6 week promotion, that later got extended to a 10 week promotion.

Each week we would receive reports that were supposed to tell us the stations and spins that our artist's single got airplay for. We hired Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. to specifically promote and report the song's activity back to us.

Near the end of the sixth week, we unfortunately agreed to extend our 6 week promotion to a 10 week promotion, and this is around the time that we started to discover the truth behind Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc's. reports that they were sending us.

I started contacting radio stations via e-mail and telephone that were listed on the reports to routinely thank each station for supporting our artist and playing our artist's music. As we started to find out, most of them weren't even playing the song at all. The famous response I got from the stations was "Who is that?" and "No, we never played your artist's music on our radio station?"

Well, you can only imagine what was going through our heads when we started hearing radio stations telling us the opposite of what our radio promoter was telling us. It was at this point that I began to investigate what the heck was really going on.

Thankfully, I had registered our artist's song with the top three music audio fingerprinting companies in the industry, which are Mediaguide, Nielsen / BDS, and Mediabase. The purpose of fingerprinting the music was to accurately track the progress of the single in select markets that were covered by these companies. When it was all said and done, all three companies only reported one spin across the stations that they covered during the 10 week period. With all our evidence we gathered. We found that over 41% of the airplay reports from Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. were false with a total of 251 false spins. We weren't able to call or monitor every station. So who is to say what other false spins we might have found? But at this point, ask yourself this question:

Would you be happy with the fact that your radio promoter has been lying to you? I don't think so! Which gets me to the point of just how our agreement with Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. was extended in the first place. It was due to Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc's. means of extortion that got us to agree to hire them for another 4 weeks.

I remember having a phone conversation with Howard Rosen near the end of the 6th week when he told me that if we didn't hire him for another promotional term, he would have all the stations on his panel drop the single from their programming and that our artist's public image would go down the drain. Looking back on this, I ask myself "What stations would that be that would drop the single?" Howard planted the idea in our heads that we needed to spend more to get more. Well, you and I know that this is true, but only if the money is spent in the right company to get more exposure for the artist and especially spent in a company that actually does the work in promoting and accurately reporting the results back to the client. Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. failed terribly on the basis of honesty!

After paying nearly $7,000 for non-productive services, my associate and I decided to to take them to court. Because my name was not of the lawsuit, just my associates', I had no legal standing during the court proceedings. My associate ended up agreeing to settle outside of court in the hallway through mediation with Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. in the amount of $2,000, which otherwise could have resulted in a judgment in our favor of $7,500. I did not agree with my associate's decision because if it were up to me, I would have liked to have gone back in the court room and prove the case, especially since we had the evidence to prove that Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. was a fraud and an extortionist.

Anyways, in the court room hallways, Howard Rosen never admitted to falsifying the reports, which gets me to wonder, if Howard doesn't think he did anything wrong, why would he settle outside of court in the hallway for any amount? If he was telling the truth, wouldn't you think he would try to prove his case instead of doing a settlement?

Hence, now you know why HowardRosenBeware.com was born and why I am exposing Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc's. business practices. I am exposing their company's wrong doings for the sake of my fellow musicians and industry friends. I don't want to see them get hurt the way Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. has hurt many other bands and artists in the past, including myself. I am still waiting for their confession and apology. The Truth will always prevail against falsehood and may one day they confess to their wrong doings.

Since HowardRosenBeware.com has been online, my domain providers GoDaddy.com and Domains By Proxy, Inc. received a threat from Berger Kahn, a Law firm that represents Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc., stating that the domain owners of HowardRosenBeware.com were making "numerous false and defamatory statements" against their client on the website which have exposed Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. to ridicule and have caused them damages. Berger Kahn also demanded that the domain be turned over to their client immediately.

Well, thanks to the First Amendment and the Lanham act, this website still stands! This is were the history of the site rests, and will remain, that all facts presented in our case are true and provable in a court of law.

On the next page you will read the fax transmission that was forwarded to me from my domain providers received from Berger Kahn in an attempt to shut down my website in order to silence the revelation of Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc's dirty little secrets of the way they practice business, which failed because Berger Kahn tried to twist the truth to say that I was in violation, among many accusations, of the Lanham act. But, in fact, the Lanham act stands to protect my rights as a consumer and my right to give consumer commentary. Berger Kahn tired to twist the Lanham act by accusing me of trademark infringement. The only way I would be in violation of trademark infringement is if I was selling products or services with Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc's. brand or mark on it, which as you can see I do not do in any part of this website in any form or fashion whatsoever. On the last page you will read my response, not to the Law firm, but to Howard Rosen Promotion, Inc. directly warning them not to spread lies about me and this website to their Law firm or to any one else for that matter. Click here to continue to page two.

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