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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you blindfolded Dana McKelvey and led her into a retail store, a restaurant, a doctor’s office, or a bank, she could tell fairly quickly whether the music playing in the background was Muzak. You ...

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 ...

When Muzak, the company whose name has become synonymous with syrupy instrumental renditions of pop songs piped into elevators, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, Joshua Katz’s ...

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 ...

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(CNN)-- Muzak, the company that put pop, string-filled arrangements of rock songs in your elevator, filed bankruptcy papers Tuesday after it missed a $105 million payment to creditors. The pipeline of ...