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Play.me music service for connected TV

TV-connected software production company TVBlob and digital entertainment provider Dada have launched the Play.me music service on the Hybrid BLOBbox from TeleSystem. Subscribers to the web/mobile music subscription service Play.me can now access millions of music tracks from major and independent labels via their TV sets. Users pay E4.99 per month for unlimited online streaming […]

December 10, 2010From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Stern back on Sirius XM

Shock jock Howard Stern is returning to Sirius XM Radio, sending shares of the satellite radio company up 8 per cent. Stern’s previous five-year, $500 million contract with Sirius XM Radio expires in December and investors have expressed concern that subscribers would abandon the service if Stern were to move on. One estimate says Stern […]

December 9, 2010

Sirius-XM not looking abroad

Sirius-XM says it is looking for a partner in Mexico, but other than that it is not seeking to play an investment or ownership role in the international development of pay-radio. But it is looking to sell or license its skills internationally. So said David Frear, CFO and VP at Sirius-XM Radio, speaking at the […]

November 29, 2010By Chris Forrester

UK DAB trends down as analogue gains…

Hopes for digital radio switchover in the next five years have suffered a blow as the growth in popularity of digital audio broadcasting (DAB) radio went into reverse. Digital accounted for 24.8 per cent of all radio listening in the three months to September 19th, marginally up on the 24.6 per cent share of listening […]

October 28, 2010

iPlayer radio launching in December

A BBC-backed radio streaming application with the potential of allowing users access to audio content from more than 400 stations nationwide is to launch in December. The first working version of the UK Radioplayer project – dubbed “the iPlayer for radio” – was unveiled at the annual Radio Festival in Salford. Content from about 50 […]

October 20, 2010

DAB for 2015 but in-car is key

2015 is ‘achievable’ for an analogue-to-digital switchover, according to industry body Digital Radio UK.  CEO Ford Ennals told the Radio Festival that there had been “significant progress towards building momentum for digital radio,” and added that the analogue-to-digital switchover was a “matter of when not if”. Ennals stressed that a target date of 2015 was […]

October 19, 2010

BBC launching HD net sound

The BBC is addressing the questionable quality of its online radio streams with the launch of HD Sound, a new high-definition netcast technology. Due for Radio 3 in December, and to be available on selected programming on the BBC’s other radio channels starting with the Electric Proms on Radio 2 later this month, HD Sound […]

October 18, 2010