When you hear the name Muzak, you probably think of the type of easy listening music one often encounters in elevators or while on hold at a call center. Where does the term Muzak come from, and where ...

Whether you know it as background music, elevator music, or, as Ted Nugent once called it, an “evil force causing people to collapse into uncontrollable fits of blandness,” Muzak has ruled speakers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Muzak is in trouble. Since 1934, the popular company has been providing retailers with musical strategies to boost worker productivity, encourage consumerism, and manipulate mood in a brick-and-mortar ...

FORT MILL, S.C., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Muzak Holdings LLC and certain of its subsidiaries (together, the "Company") today announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of ...

Muzak made its mark on American culture by producing generic-sounding songs for office buildings, retail stores and the dentist. Muzak made elevator music, but it's been 25 years since the company ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Muzak Holdings, the company that pipes mood music into thousands of U.S. businesses, says it will keep the music playing during a bankruptcy reorganization filed today and emerge an ...

If you find yourself in a more money-spending mood while shopping at the Target store in West Hills next week, that might be no coincidence. The chain’s San Fernando Valley branch is one of two-dozen ...