Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether you know it or not, you’ve been in the mood for some time. That’s Mood Media Corp, one of the world’s largest providers of ...

About the only quiet places in the headquarters of Muzak Holdings LLC are, believe it or not, the building’s elevators. The omission is intentional. Muzak management wants visitors to know that the ...

Last week was big for music: the 55th Grammys chose their inoffensive favorites, Beyoncé silenced naysayers at the Super Bowl, and an American institution "retired": Muzak. But the "soundtrack to life ...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Canada's Mood Media will buy Muzak for $305 million in cash. If the deal goes through, it will not be the first time somebody has paid hundreds of ...

The flute hurts. At least it does for fans of rapper André 3000, who, as one half of Outkast, lit up the charts with early-noughties hits such as Ms. Jackson and Hey Ya! But that was a long time ago, ...

For much of the 20th century, it was derided as the Spam of sounds, the pablum of music. Yet in the 21st century, the South Carolina-based company that still calls itself Muzak has enjoyed some of the ...

Anyone of a certain age remembers the golden age of Muzak. Founded in 1934, the company's lilting sounds were the constant companion in elevators that offered something not quite music, but not quite ...

To people of a certain age, Muzak is a word like "Kleenex," or "Xerox." It stands for that annoying, easy-listening entertainment piped into elevators and played during on-hold phone calls. And even ...

FORT MILL, S.C. — About the only quiet places in Muzak Holdings headquarters are, believe it or not, the building’s elevators. The omission is intentional. Muzak wants visitors to know that the ...

Anyone of a certain age remembers the golden age of Muzak — the constant companion in elevators that sounded not quite like music, CBS News correspondent Richard Schlesinger reports. "For years it was ...