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First Listen: The Soundtrack Of Miami
So what if WPOW (Power 96) Miami were still playing all the hits from its more than 25-year history as a Rhythmic Top 40 outlet, as well as today's hits, and a few of the club classics from influential crosstown outlet WRTO (Rhythm 98)? You'd have The Soundtrack of Miami, a new online station from former WPOW PD "Funk E." Frank Walsh.Power's callin… Read More
Spotify eyes Pandora-like product for U.S.
Bloomberg is reporting a new ad-supported product from Spotify that could be in the U.S. by year-end.
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The Real Curators Of Radio
It’s a familiar trope in the broadcast owner’s argument about what constitutes “radio”: Radio is companionship. Radio is produced entertainment.
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Nine Years Of New, Part II
Last week, we started tracking the “Most Intriguing” stations of the last nine years, looking to see whether formats based in emerging music stood a chance of breaking out among the various new repackagings of Oldies and the AM-to-FM spoken-word movement. And so far, we’ve found no shortage of attempts to acknowledge movements like young countr…
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Is FM Through With New?
For nearly a decade now, the odds have been rigged against any potential new format FM radio built around new music. As Jaye Albright and others have noted, the format boom-bust cycles have usually revolved around some new variant of Oldies—Jammin’ Oldies, all-’80s, Bob- and Jack-FM, Rhythmic Hot AC, gold-based Alternative, all-’90s, and then somet…
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First Listen: Jelli SXSW
Interactive broadcaster/Webcaster Jelli isn’t the only service celebrating SXSW this week. Clear Channel’s iHeart Radio is offering not only the “Austin 2012” channel, but also sponsoring an event Monday night starring K’Naan, Foxy Shazam, T.Mills, ZZ Ward and Dead Sara.
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First Listen: CBC Music’s Pop 40 and ’70s Channels
Every now and then, I’ve found myself wondering what it would sound like if NPR Music decided to offer a Top 40 channel. Noncomm broadcasters around the world offer different versions of CHR that are sometimes straightforward and sometime the hip variant on the format that you wish existed in the U.S.
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Canadian Supreme Court says ISPs are not broadcasters
The Canadian Supreme Court has ruled that Internet service providers are not to be considered broadcasters, and as a result, do not need to adhere to the regulations that boost Canadian content on television and radio. The court said in its unanimous decision that "ISPs (Internet service providers) provide Internet access to end-users.
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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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