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My Connected Life: More Streaming, More Problems
From time to time, I’ve commented on my streaming experience—particularly since I began, finally, streaming radio in the car on a regular basis in 2009. I haven’t weighed in recently.
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Intriguing Stations of 2011 – Part I
Based only on the sheer volume of activity, 2011 was the best year for format change watchers, at least since the worst of the recession in 2008-09. There were weekly Spoken Word radio launches on FM.
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iHeart Radio ends Facebook-only log-in
Clear Channel's online radio platform, iHeart Radio, which had generated some initial controversy by forcing users to log in through Facebook to access certain content, is now allowing listeners to create their own account and log in to the site directly.While a log in was never required to listen to the over-the-air stations that iHeart Radio aggr…
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NASA’s New Internet Radio Station
In an attempt to attract a younger crowd to their website, NASA has launched their own radio station online. Third Rock-America’s Space Station plays rock, indie, and alternative music and partners through the Space Act Agreement, which allows it to be developed at no cost to the government. Read More
Political ads hit online radio's Pandora
It seems as though terrestrial radio is going to have competition from the online radio world in the big 2012 election cycle. You can now expect to find ads not just on-air, but also online.
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First Listen: Spotify Radio
As a tool for keeping track of and hearing new music, I’ve really appreciated Spotify since its U.S. debut earlier this year. Spotify has been my go-to place to listen to a prospective new album purchase.
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Holiday Format Reader Poll Nominations Announced
Nearly 100 stations have been nominated in the first Radio-Info.com Holiday Format Reader Poll. Stations are nominated in eight categories and include stations on FM, AM, satellite radio and on new platforms, as well as in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
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Aggregation and Aggravation
A few years ago, in an article called “Taking Control Of The Infinite Dial,” I encouraged broadcasters to be pro-active in securing radio’s place in the dashboard of the future. At that moment, it looked like automakers were gearing up to offer their own streaming music channels.
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Pandora Now Targeting Local Radio
Pandora has its focus on local radio advertising. According to Forbes.com, “The company considers itself one of the largest local radio stations in each local market compared to traditional terrestrial radio, with 4.3% of total U.S.
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Making Moves: Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Lisa Wexler was displaced when Cox Media Group sold Connecticut's WSTC, Stamford (1400) and WNLK, Norwalk (1350) to Sacred Heart University. Now the talkhost says her new home will be Cumulus-owned WFAS, White Plains (1230), beginning December 5 ....
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First Listen: Absolute Radio '60s
In the years when it looked like the Oldies format might just disappear altogether from FM radio in the U.S., there was a lot of discussion about how to retool the format altogether for a generation that hadn’t grown up with ’60s music at all. (The handful of neo-Standards formats that popped up around the mid-’00s took a similar approach, targetin…
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First Listen: George Wilson's Memory Tunes
Country Oldies, when you can find them on the radio, often come in one of two packages.The bulk of the FM commercial outlets are heavy on ’80s titles and, increasingly, early ’90s songs as those become a little harder to find on mainstream Country stations. The ’70s are represented by a relatively small swath of titles, and the ’60s by only a few s…
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CBS Radio Teams With Researcher For "Tomorrow's Hits" CHR Channel
CBS Radio and U.K.-based music research firm SoundOut Research have teamed for a new online radio channel, "Tomorrow's Hits Today," on Radio.com, CBS Radio's streaming audio portal and apps. The new channel is driven by the results of SoundOut's pre-release on-line music testing, and plays "just the U.S.
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Radio’s Best & Worst: September 22, 2011
Highlights from the author’s (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending September 22, 2011. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or any other) capacity are asterisked.*Station (FM)CFNY (The Edge) Toronto – In the late ’80s/early ’90s, CFNY (already a 10-year format veteran at that point) wa…
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At Home, At Work, Or In The Gym: Stations To Workout To
As programmers begin to look at radio formats that transcend musical genres, it’s surprising that more stations haven’t been specifically geared to exercise. In various sessions at the RAIN Summit and NAB Radio Show in Chicago last week, streaming radio’s place in the gym came up on a number of occasions.
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Is iHeartRadio a threat to Pandora's value?
Pandora's value as a company is now being questioned by Forbes, which speculates an answer as to why Pandora's stock has dropped from $13.98 on August 31 to close at $9.87 on September 12, the span of just eight trading days. According to Forbes, "Clear Channel has launched its iHeartRadio app and website in a direct assault on Pandora’s growth.
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First Listen: The New iHeart Radio
It’s been tipped for months, and today a beta version of Clear Channel’s revamped iHeart Radio was publicly made available. For months, Clear Channel has been touting a new version with personalization as well as “more songs than Pandora” that would be commercial-free until the end of the year, in addition to its existing full suite of pre-prog…
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New IHS iSuppli study: Internet radio in cars will rise dramatically
Car sales with internet radio capability are set to increase exponentially, expected to grow by millions in the coming years. According to a report by the IHS iSuppli Automotive Research Service, sales of cars with built-in internet radio are expected to jump to 24 million units in 2018, up from just 168,000 last year.
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Radio’s Best & Worst: August 18, 2011
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending August 18, 2011. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or any other) capacity are asterisked.*Ratings StoryKLBJ Austin, Texas – It’s the highest-ever PPM share (6.5–6.9, tied for third, and with another two-tenth…
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First Listen: Spotify
How did you spend last weekend? At least a few industry people were busy playing with Spotify, which was introduced in America last week after three years of immense European popularity.
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