Slacker Radio of MusicMatch, which was purchased by Yahoo Music and became known as Yahoo! Music Radio. The current CEO is Duncan Orrell-Jones, formerly of Nintendo of America and Disney Interactive Media Group, Asia Pacific. In September 2007, the service finalized its deals with four major labels: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, EMI, Universal, and Warner; it also announced deals with thousands of indie labels. In 2008, Slacker released the Slacker Portable Player, available in 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB capacities. On January 9, 2008, the Slacker Portable Player received Laptop Magazine's Best of CES Portable Audio/Video Player Award. On September 16, 2008, Slacker
Slacker Future" in which James Tolkan's character Mr. Strickland chronically refers to Marty McFly, his father George McFly, Biff Tannen, and a group of teenage delinquents in "Part II" as "slackers". It gained subsequent exposure from the 1989 Superchunk single "Slack Motherfucker", and the 1990 film "Slacker". The television series "Rox" has been noted for its "depiction of the slacker lifestyle ... of the early '90s". "Slacker" became widely used in the 1990s to refer to a type of apathetic youth who were cynical and uninterested in political or social causes and as a stereotype for members of Generation X. Richard