Almost 12 million DAB receivers were sold in 2017 in Europe and Asia Pacific, a new record for yearly sales. Almost half (5.9 million) of the sales were for automotive devices, with key markets showing a significant increase in the number of cars sold with DAB fitted as standard. Cumulative sales for DAB receivers have […]
Pay-radio operator SiriusXM added a net 330,000 new subscribers during its Q1 period, and this took its overall subscriber numbers to more than 33 million. But the company said an international roll-out was unlikely. Revenue growth matched the expansion in numbers, with revenue up 5 per cent to 1.4 billion, and net income up an […]
Sky has announced that, effective immediately, the music-streaming Spotify app will be available via Sky Q. Anyone using the latest Sky STB will now be able to gain access to millions of songs straight from their Q homepage. Spotify is available for free, or via a monthly £9.99 subscription which removes all advertising. Jorge Espinel, […]
A letter to shareholders (and filed with the SEC) from SiriusXM’s CEO Jim Meyer painted a rosy picture of the company’s overall status, and reminding them that the pay-radio business closed its 2017 trading year with a record 32.7 million overall subscribers, with record growth, revenues ($5.4 billion) and profits. The company’s AGM is due […]
2017 was a stellar year for the recorded music business, according to MIDiA research. Global recorded music revenues reached $17.4 billion in 2017 in trade values, up from $16 billion in 2016, an annual growth rate of 8.5 per cent. Streaming has, unsurprisingly, been the driver of growth, growing revenues by 39 per cent year-on-year, […]
TalkSport has secured the free-to-air radio broadcast rights for the England cricket team’s forthcoming tours of Sri Lanka and the West Indies, after outbidding the BBC Radio who have held the rights for 13 years. Scott Taunton, chief executive of Wireless Group Limited, commented “Winning these prestigious rights is a great victory for TalkSport and […]
Mediavision research finds that over 60 per cent of Swedish households subscribe to at least one service for music or TV streaming. And among the streaming households, almost half subscribe to a music service, a high figure also internationally. The great interest in Spotify among Swedes is partly explained by the country’s general interest in […]
Overall media consumption in Australia is higher after dinner compared to breakfast time with 88 per cent of Australians consuming media after dinner compared to 75 per cent at breakfast. Findings from Roy Morgan Research investigating the media consumption preferences of Australians highlights some significant differences between which media we choose at breakfast time compared […]
Just three months after FM was switched off in Norway, a listener survey shows the new digital stations have up to one third of all radio listening. Most radio listeners still tune in to radio, and the new digital stations have shown strong growth. These are some of the findings presented by a group of […]
The BBC will stick with FM radio for the foreseeable future rather than switch over entirely to digital. BBC director of radio and music Bob Shennan, speaking at a conference in Vienna said”We need to do more in the UK before we consider a switchover and for that to be genuinely led by the audience […]