Amazon and Pandora Media are planning to launch new versions of their streaming music services in coming weeks, reports the NY Times. Pandora could announce its plans this to expand its $5-per-month platform later this week, with possible features including skipping more songs or storing several hours of playlists, the newspaper said. The company plans […]
Shareholders in SiriusXM Canada Holdings, which controls the pay-radio broadcaster ‘north of the border’ in Canada, have approved a resolution to go private. The vote supports a C$275 million recapitalisation scheme. Canada’s CBC public broadcaster will sell its shares and the end result will see the US ‘parent’ own 70 percent of the economic interest […]
SiriusXM Canada is based in Toronto, although its US ‘parent’ only owns 25 per cent of the company. In a somewhat complicated shareholder structure Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings is the official licensee of the business and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC) also owns a slice, with Slaight Communications also a significant shareholder. Slaight is an […]
Research commissioned by NZ On Air shows New Zealanders’ media consumption habits are changing rapidly as the media environment and technology changes. And the most rapid change is with younger audiences. The research is a follow-up to a survey first carried out in 2014, which provides the only independent, publicly available data across media types. […]
Pay-radio operator SiriusXM enjoyed a 5 per cent boost to its share price following impressive Q2 results, and helped by a net gain of 587,000 subscribers, or typically 6000 a day. SiriusXM now has more than 30.6 million subs, and Q2 revenues up 10 per cent to $1.2 billion (€1bn), a record. Net income was […]
A study from Juniper Research has found that new in-vehicle infotainment services such as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto will generate large amounts of new cellular M2M data traffic. Over the next five years, this will account for up to 98 per cent of all M2M data traffic. According to the study, data intensive applications such as […]
Bloomberg Radio is joining Radioplayer, the listening platform backed by the BBC and commercial radio, in a deal that will enable it to reach an additional six million potential listeners in the UK. Bloomberg Radio delivers 24/7 market-moving news and analysis to a global audience of business leaders, financial professionals and C-suite executives. Originating from […]
Deezer, the on-demand digital music streaming services, has expanded its international offering by launching to all consumers in the US. Available via the iOS App Store, Google Play, the Windows Store and Deezer.com, music fans can now directly access content and features, including Deezer’s signature FLOW – a personal soundtrack that intuitively knows everything listeners […]
The BBC claims to have maintained near-universal reach in 2015-16 BBC Trust Chairman Rona Fairhead said launching the BBC Annual Report and Accounts for 2015/16. The BBC
The BBC has launched an international BBC iPlayer Radio app in the Republic of Ireland, the first stage of its global roll-out. Available in the UK since 2012, the free BBC iPlayer Radio app will transform access to BBC Radio programmes internationally, making it easier for audiences around the world to listen to a variety […]