Apple has announced iTunes Radio, a free Internet radio service featuring over 200 stations and catalogue of music from the iTunes Store, combined with features tied in to iTunes’ functionality. The announcement, made at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, confounded suggestions that the service would be called ‘iRadio’. Users tuning into iTunes Radio on their iPhone, […]
Building on its success in the connected device space, Pandora, the Internet radio service, has unveiled tv.pandora.com, its next generation experience for the TV and latest innovation in delivering the personalised radio. Having launched on a single connected Blu-ray player in 2008, Pandora is now available through more than 1,000 partner integrations including more than […]
TuneIn has raised a new $25 million round of funding. TuneIn CEO John Donham says that he intends to spend the new funding on a monetisation strategy that could help radio broadcasters finally make money with their programming online, and in turn transform a $30 billion industry. TuneIn is offering access to live and on-demand […]
Apple’s plans for a radio streaming service have reportedly stalled again, with label bosses at Sony Music pushing for better terms in ongoing negotiations. Apple has has signed a deal with Universal Music, the largest of the three major record labels, and is reportedly close to an agreement with Warner Music. But according to the […]
Liberty Media-controlled pay-radio operator Sirius-XM is sticking to its forecasts that by the end of 2017 there will be around 100 million vehicles potentially able to pick up Sirius-XM’s satellite signals. By 2023 that number will be around 150 million. This is not to say that each of these vehicles will be paying for Sirius-XM, […]
John Malone’s Liberty Media posted improved Q1 after the inclusion of Sirius XM Radio in its financials and the separation of Starz, which was spun off into a separate company. Revenue increased from $35 million to $789 million in the first quarter. Adjusted operating income got into positive territory with an increase of $288 million […]
Pay-radio operator Sirius-XM delivered one of its best-ever sets of results April 30th, saying that its Q1 2013 subscribers now topped 24.35 million (up 453,000 or 9.9 per cent y-o-y) and with record revenue growth of 12 per cent to $897 million ($805m in 2012) although this figure was about $12 million lower than consensus […]
Six months after its iPlayer Radio app for iOS, the BBC has launched the app in the Google Play Store. The Android version is free to download and provides live streaming radio from the BBC’s stations, a programme guide and access to on-demand shows from the last seven days. Podcasts, video clips and an alarm-clock […]
Global revenues from mobile streamed music services are expected to rise by more than 40 per cent to $1.7 billion, according to a report from Juniper Research. For the first time, these revenues will thereby overtake those generated by full-track downloads to mobile devices. The report observed that growth in premium service adoption was increasingly […]
Apple is reportedly stepping up its plans to launch a new music service, tentatively called iRadio, later this year with talks in progress with the three main music companies – Universal Music, Warner Music and Sony. The service, which would rival the likes of Spotify and Pandora, will reportedly be free and paid for by […]