Katz Drops Pandora
Katz360 has dropped Pandora from its list of clients, according to a story in Inside Radio this morning. Katz360 is owned by Katz Media Group which is owned by Clear Channel. (Inside Radio is also owned by Clear Channel.) This is the latest development in a series of events leading to an increasing divide between [...]
Triton Announces Local Market Measurement Product for Internet Radio
All of the data available in Triton’s Media Rating Council (MRC) accredited national monthly rankers will now be available on a local market level, per an announcement yesterday by Triton Digital. Triton’s Webcast Metrics audience data will now be made available to subscribers on a local market by market basis. The updated solution will enable publishers [...]
A Little Christmas Cheer
There are more than 425 stations streaming Christmas music this year, according to BRS Media, owner of web-radio.fm. That number includes AM/FM stations that are also streaming their Christmas programming online as well as online only stations. This year a record percentage of terrestrial AM/FM radio station are streaming online. Nearly 90% of terrestrial stations, playing [...]
Last.fm’s New Site Is a Game Changer
Not to be outdone by recent enhancements by Spotify and Pandora, Last.fm has rolled out a new interface for Last.fm Discover that is easily the best looking offering I’ve seen by a streaming station. It’s based on HTML5 and was developed in tandem with Microsoft to showcase the new capabilities that HTML5 in Internet Explorer [...]
Streaming Station That’s Out of This World
NASA has launched a new space station and this time it’s an Internet radio station called Third Rock. They’re calling it “America’s Space Station” and it’s a custom-produced Internet music radio station that is crafted specifically to speak the language of tech-savvy young adults. “NASA constantly is looking for new and innovative ways to engage the [...]
Pandora’s Free Concert Series
Last fall when Tim Westergren keynoted the RAIN Summit in Chicago he spent time talking about how Pandora can use the information they gather from listener’s preferences to connect artists with their audiences. Based on a listener’s location, and the songs they give thumbs up or down to, Pandora can guess what other artists they [...]
Play, Skip And Pause NPR Streams
When it comes to offering excellent diverse digital audio programming, NPR has been doing it really well for a long time. Years ago they started offering many of their weekly or daily news/talk programs as podcasts which dominated the podcast charts at ITunes. As iPhones made connected access more mobile, they began to offer the [...]
Send Your Friends An ECard with Streaming Christmas Music From Live365
Here’s a fun and innovative idea – Live365 has launched a tool that lets anyone create a personalized Christmas e-card and send it to whomever they want, complete with Christmas music. The Live365 holiday radio card builder is available online at live365.com/cards. Senders can send to their entire list of family and friends using email or share [...]
Cumulus Stations Join iHeartRadio
The week has begun with news of a streaming partnership between Clear Channel and Cumulus – the latter’s online stations will be accessed through Clear Channel’s expanding iHeartRadio online platform. The 570 Cumulus radio stations in 120 markets will be available on the New iHeartRadio platform wherever it is offered, including the Web, mobile devices and [...]
Spotify Just Grabbed Control of the Streaming Music Game
Spotify held a press conference yesterday where they announced some big innovations to their streaming music platform. Now the Spotify Platform gives third party developers the opportunity to build innovative, engaging music-based apps. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage and – after introducing Spotify with a brief history, told the audience that Spotify is becoming [...]
