Michael Robertson doesn’t mince words when he talks about the flawed business model that Internet radio must operate under. Robertson, a high tech entrepreneur, founded mp3.com, a digital music service that did not survive mostly due to copyright lawsuits by the music industry. He’s no stranger...
AT&T has launched a new mobile music platform that delivers “song and album downloads, streaming radio, song match, lyric search and an enhanced music player – into a single, cohesive experience for AT&T mobile phones.” AT&T will charge customers $6.99 a month on top of a data plan fee, with s...
Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes.Social networks and other apps for smartphones could be brought to television through the use of Google's Android operating sy...
Less than a month after being suspended from ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption” for comments about a fellow host at the cable channel, Tony Kornheiser is under attack for some other comments made on his WTEM-AM Washington, DC local radio show. This time he’s being denounced by famed bicycle ra...
An Internet radio legend has announced that they will stop offering free streams and tuck access to their station behind a subscription service. KPIG has had a few lives in its pursuit of Internet radio success. It was one of, if not the first broadcast station to stream starting back in 1995, when...
BBC Radio has apologised for a technical problem which replaced the output of Radio 4 with that of 6 Music.It comes just days after the wrong shipping forecast was broadcast, and a repeat of the Now show was aired instead of a new show.The mistake happened on Thursday evening, when forum posters wer...
This year's Radio Festival will take place in Salford Quays, the home of Media City UK, RadioToday.co.uk can exclusively reveal. Organised by The Radio Academy, the Festival is also changing its regular summer date in favour of an October event, and will be chaired by BBC Audio and Music Director Ti...
The UK’s newest FM radio station, Radio Plymouth, launched on Sunday 28th February, and TM Studios was delighted to supply the jingle package. The station chose TM’s “Channel 4 Hot AC” jingle package, with a range of alternate sings, and custom mixes of the news and traffic beds. TM worked w...
CBS Radio has announced the launch of The FAN Sports Network, the first four-channel HD radio digital multicast station in the country. WJFK-FM, 106.7 The Fan is now offering sports followers in the Washington, D.C. area subscription free access to CBS Radio's other sports stations in the Northeast,...
Radio 1 and the Official Charts Company start broadcasting a midweek chart update from today (Wednesday 10 March). The half-hour show, which will go out on Greg James' show between 3.30-4pm, will feature both singles and albums. Before now official midweek chart figures have been sen...
