SHOUTcast users have been in disarray in the past 24 hours over stream dropouts with their RMO service. A forum post on the Winamp/SHOUTcast forums details several users having dropouts and server connection issues, some spanning several hours. Broadcasting World investigations, along with inditial...
The European Radio Show in Paris next month will feature the official launch of the dot radio domain name. Responsibility for administering the domain name extension was delegated to the EBU by the top domain name regulatory authority, ICANN, on 21 July 2016. When requesting a dot-radio domain nam...
Reports of Google Chrome users being unable to connect to SHOUTcast Version 1 streams have surfaced from the Broadcasting World Forums and Google Chrome Help Forum today. The reports have risen with the release of Chrome Version 55 this week as it appears that the most recent updates have rendered ...
In a move, most likely related to the Sony Lawsuit, Radionomy has blocked many listeners from tuning into stations via the TuneIn App. In a 64 page letter sent to TuneIn from Sony Music Entertainment, it is stated that all of the listed Radionomy stations are infringing upon it's rights. It specific...
In just one day, longstanding internet radio service Live365 is set to shutter its presence online for good. The veteran streaming platform will go off the air (and off the web) after January 31st, 2016—this Sunday. The Live365 website is now in disarray with links broken, stylesheets lost an...
Nielsen Music’s latest data shows that streaming doubled in the U.S. in 2015. Billboard has a first look at the company’s reports from the recently concluded year. The total songs streamed increased from 164.5 billion in 2014 to 317.2 billion last year. Under Nielsen’s equivalency ...
Someone has to kick radio stations in the ass. Radio is probably one of the biggest whiners out there right now, well maybe for the exception of Fox News about Trump. First radio got all fired up about satellite radio. Sirius/XM really hasn’t done that much to hurt your local radio station. T...
2016 is looking to be a tough year for internet radio broadcasters, the CRB's (Copyright Rotalty Board) royalty raises create a massive headache for broadcasters, the lack of investment in streaming platforms such as SHOUTcast with Radionomy (recently acquired by Vivendi) and the overall doom a...
Global media holding company Vivendi announced today that it has acquired a majority share (64.4%) of Radionomy Group, planting a flag in pureplay online radio and streaming audio advertising. Radionomy is an Internet radio platform that hosts independent station producers and traditional broadcast...
BPI and the Official Charts Company analyzed data about the most popular genres in streaming. The numbers showed that streaming of dance music is growing faster than other styles, with the number of audio streams in the year-to-date increasing 107% over 2014. Contemporary urban showed the second mos...
