{"id":152240,"date":"2025-04-22T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T04:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/22\/fyre-failed-as-a-festival-can-this-executive-make-it-work-as-a-streaming-service\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T00:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T04:04:07","slug":"fyre-failed-as-a-festival-can-this-executive-make-it-work-as-a-streaming-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/22\/fyre-failed-as-a-festival-can-this-executive-make-it-work-as-a-streaming-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Fyre Failed as a Festival. Can This Executive Make It Work as a Streaming\u00a0Service?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tAs a festival platform, the Fyre brand doesn\u2019t have the best reputation, to say the least. Originally billed as the ultimate FOMO event for influencers and scenesters, the high-profile collapse of the 2017 Fyre Festival in the Bahamas has become the ultimate symbol for hubris in the live music business and an unofficial synonym for any event plagued by disorganization, malaise or misery.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow that Fyre founder Billy McFarland<\/strong> has tried, and once again failed<\/a>, to revive the Fyre Fest name, most music fans have written off the brand as dead \u2014 but one Cleveland music and media executive has a new vision for the creatively spelled four-letter word.<\/p>\n

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\n\tEnter Fyre Music Streaming Ventures, LLC, a fan-curated on-demand music video streaming service that founder Shawn Rech<\/strong> hopes will become \u201chome for the most passionate music fans and undiscovered talent around the world,\u201d according to a release.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI just want people to remember the name,\u201d Rech tells Billboard<\/em> on why he chose Fyre. \u201cIt\u2019s really that simple. It\u2019s PT Barnum. All publicity is good publicity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRech tells Billboard<\/em> that shortly after the second Fyre Festival started collapsing last week, his team was on the phone with McFarland hammering out an agreement to use the Fyre name, logos and trademarks to brand the streaming venture. The agreement with Rech won\u2019t impact McFarland\u2019s ability to stage Fyre Festival at a future date.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince getting out of prison in late 2022, McFarland has been hyping Fyre Festival 2 as a kind of redemption project following the disastrous 2017 event in the Bahamas that left fans stranded and resulted in a three-year sentence for the founder. Originally announced to be taking place on Isla Mujeres in Mexico, McFarland later moved the festival to Playa del Carmen before canceling it altogether after local officials in the Mexican town denied any knowledge<\/a> of its existence.<\/p>\n

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\n\tRech is a veteran entertainment executive and president\/co-founder of the TruBlu Crime Network, which he launched with former To Catch a Predator<\/em> host Chris Hansen in 2022. For $4.99 a month, TruBlu subscribers get access to dozens of licensed true crime shows and documentaries like A+E After Dark<\/em>, Bounty Hunters <\/em>and Takedown with Chris Hansen<\/em>, accessible across devices via download apps and native channels built into smart TVs.<\/p>\n

\n\tRech says Fyre \u201cis like a curated YouTube with an emphasis on music.\u201d It will operate as both a subscription service and as a FAST channel, an acronym for Free Ad-supported Streaming TV, with more linear-based programming and music content submitted and upvoted by fans. Fyre will also offer audio-only capabilities for fans looking to stream content on their phones at a lower bandwidth. Metadata identification will be verified by GraceNote.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe relationship is between the artist and the fan through a single conduit. We intend to be that conduit,\u201d Rech says.<\/p>\n

\n\tFyre will use both tastemakers and fan behavior to help drive its content strategy and potentially feature McFarland in a potential talent role in the future, although nothing has been finalized.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe was fine to deal with; I have nothing negative to say,\u201d Rech said when asked about working with McFarland. \u201cHe\u2019s a big dreamer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYou can learn more about the project and sign up for notifications at watchfyretv.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As a festival platform, the Fyre brand doesn\u2019t have the best reputation, to say the least. Originally billed as the ultimate FOMO event for influencers and scenesters, the high-profile collapse of the 2017 Fyre Festival in the Bahamas has become the ultimate symbol for hubris in the live music business and an unofficial synonym for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}