YouTube has launched two new streaming services – YouTube Music and YouTube Premium – in the UK and 12 other new countries. YouTube Music will enable users to listen to tracks as well as watch music videos and discover new artists through a new standalone app. A Music Premium subscription will cost £9.99 a month […]
After Paris, Marseille and Nice, DAB+ is now available in Lille and in the Hauts-de-France region with the launch of 51 stations. On-air radio is continuing its transition to digital, as part of the trend in Europe. This is an ambitious national deployment plan being driven by the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA – Superior […]
Frontier Smart Technologies, a supplier of digital audio solutions, is introducing support for Amazon Music to its Venice 6 smart radio solution. The addition of Amazon Music, one of the fastest growing online music services, increases the choice of services available to end-users of products based on Frontier’s Venice 6 solution. Several brands which already […]
Pay-radio operator SiriusXM says it is paying $150 million (€127m) to settle all outstanding claims over unpaid music royalties. The payment will see all litigation, and in particular an action that started in 2013, over disputed music royalties end. The cash will be paid over to SoundExchange, which initiated the action, and at the time […]
Comments made last week suggest that music streaming service Pandora could be lining up for a sale/merger. This is by no means the first report that Pandora might end up fully in the hands of one of its major investors Liberty Media (where Liberty has a 19 per cent stake), or another Liberty Media-backed broadcaster, […]
Pandora, the US music streaming service, has completed its acquisition of AdsWizz, a global player in digital audio advertising technology. “Audio is the fastest growing format in digital advertising and the marketplace is rapidly evolving,” said Pandora CEO Roger Lynch. “Completing the acquisition cements our position in the future of audio, making us more ready […]
US digital radio service SiriusXM has revealed that American rock band The Beach Boys are to launch an exclusive full-time summer-long SiriusXM channel, Good Vibrations: The Beach Boys Channel, on Thursday, May 24th. The channel will feature not only the band’s hits and rarities, it will also include guest DJs and stories from original band […]
The World Teleport Association (WTA) has released Satellite Operator Benchmarks 2018, the eighth report in its series that tracks, rates and compares the operational and commercial performance of satellite operators, as experienced by teleport operators, in order to strengthen the industry by driving self-improvement across all companies. Research for the report was conducted by Futuresource, […]
YouTube has revealed that it will be launching a new music streaming service soon next week, branded simply as ‘YouTube Music’. In a blog post, the Google-owned company said: “… more than 1 billion music fans come to YouTube each month to be part of music culture and discover new music. It’s also where over […]
Arqiva, the UK communications infrastructure company, has signed an agreement which will see the reach of Sound Digital’s commercial DAB multiplex in the UK expand by nearly 4 million people. The deal with Sound Digital will see Arqiva add 19 new transmitters to the existing network. This will increase Sound Digital’s household coverage by over […]