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Friday, January 13, 2012

Richard Sutton joins CBS Interactive

CBS Interactive Music Group has a new Head of Sales. Richard C. Read More

Monday, December 19, 2011

Last.fm Targets Independent Artists

Last.fm Discover is the newest way fans of the music website can find fresh and upcoming artists from across the globe. This tool allows listeners to search the library of three million tracks and help global music fans with varying tastes make their own discoveries. Read More

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

“WRXP Is Going: Now What Do I Listen To?”

Many years ago, when legendary Top 40 WCFL Chicago went Easy Listening, the station’s Larry Lujack delivered a final rant (before that word was commonly used) that included his “highly coveted endorsement” for soon-to-be-displaced Top 40 listeners. Unfortunately, Lujack joked, his recommendation was going to another AM legend, KHJ Los Angeles.… Read More

Thursday, June 16, 2011

First Listen: Radio.com/Last.fm's Artist-Driven Stations

Remember June 9 as the day the debate officially ended over whether Pandora was a competitor for radio or merely the latest device, following the cassette deck, CD player, and iPod, on which people listened to music of their own choosing. That was the day CBS Radio began allowing listeners to utilize its Radio.com player to create artist-driven sta… Read More

Thursday, June 9, 2011

CBS offers personalized streaming on Radio.com, using its Last.fm service

Just click "create a station", says CBS. Broadcasters and also Pandora's online competitors continue to look for ways to compete with it, and the latest answer from CBS Interactive is to offer the ability to create personalized stations on its aggregated "Radio.com." They can do that through the integration of CBS-owned Last.fm, with "one-click fun… Read More

Friday, June 3, 2011

CBS Radio is about to re-launch MP3.com, with a million free downloads

CBS Interactive Music Group President David Goodman believes that MP3.com, despite being dormant for years, is “a globally-recognized brand." It continues to turn up in searches. CBS acquired CNET three years ago, and along with it got the MP3.com brand. Read More

Monday, February 7, 2011

CBS-owned Last.FM drops the "free" part of most radio service on mobile devices

Last.FM's Matthew Hawn tells the BBC "it's not that we're losing buckets of money on our service...but we're trying to make rational decisions about our business model." Next Tuesday (February 15) the option to listen to Last.FM's personalized radio service on Android or iOS devices or the Logitech Squeezebox system will go away, and users will hav… Read More

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Coleman Insights: Streaming listeners are drawn to pure-plays, but...

The Coleman study presented today (9/28) at the RAIN Summit East, just ahead of the NAB/RAB Radio Show, finds that streaming radio listeners are more aware of Internet-only stations than of the streamed versions of AM/FM stations. But surprisingly, Coleman’s Sam Milkman says those consumers are actually aware of a very small number of such channels… Read More

Friday, July 16, 2010

"Radio.com" is the central site for CBS Radio's re-launched media player

It aggregates 130 CBS Radio terrestrial stations plus hundreds of interactive stations from its streaming partners AOL Radio and Yahoo Music Radio. It also offers new opportunities for advertisers and “improved audience measurement”, plus “a visual history of audio spots heard while listening to the stream.” The “scrobble” feature of CBS-owned Last… Read More

Monday, June 14, 2010

Rubino Named PD Of Last.FM Discover

Radio and music industry veteran Jerry Rubino is the new PD of CBS Interactive Music Group indie rock channel last,fm/discover. Rubino was APD/MD/producer for the online station, which also appears on the HD-2 multicast channels of CBS FMs in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco. Rubino assumes PD duties from CBS IMG manager of digita… Read More

Monday, October 5, 2009

CBS Radio debuts Last.fm Discover today in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco

CBS Radio has launched its new Last.fm Discover format, both on-line and on four HD Radio multicast channels. The over-the-air version can be heard in New York on WWFS-FM (102.7 HD2); Los Angeles, on KCBS-FM (93.1 HD2); Chicago, on WXRT-FM (93.1 HD3); and San Francisco, on KITS-FM (105.3 HD3). Read More

Friday, September 11, 2009

CBS Radio to use Last.fm programming on HD-2 channels in four major markets

This move puts user-generated content from co-owned Last.fm on the HD multicast channels of stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. The service will also be streamed online. Read More

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Last.FM founders exit, as CBS searches for a new GM

London-based online music discovery service Last.FM is going through some changes, two years after it was acquired by CBS. As the three founding members depart – Felix Miller, Richard Jones, and Martin Stiksel, David Goodman, head of CBS Interactive Music Group, will take over management for now. Read More

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Last.FM loses Warner Music; Will charge for services in some countries

Warner Music Group has pulled its music from on-demand music streaming service Last.FM, a division of CBS. But, Warner artists can still be heard on Last.FM’s artist-based station, because those songs are licensed separately, under a different deal, according to AllAboutJazz.com. Read More

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

This week's digital mystery – did CBS-owned Last.FM give up information on the U2 leak?

Last.fm says no, it didn’t happen, and it’s really upset about the rumor first circulated Friday night by TechCrunch. Last.fm has apparently suffered the loss of some registered users since the rumor hit and is worried about its reputation. Read More

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