Two of the largest radio station operators in the US are to combine, with Cumulus Media agreeing to buy Citadel Broadcasting for $2.5 billion. The deal will bring together almost 600 radio stations in 120 markets across the country, giving Cumulus a presence in eight of the top 10 markets. Cumulus chief executive Lew Dickey […]
UK Radioplayer, the BBC-backed online player for more than 200 UK radio stations, is set to launch on March 31st . It will be the first time that both the BBC and commercial radio stations have come together on a single online radio player. The Internet radio player has been in development for the last […]
Speaking at the Association of European Radio’s 20th Anniversary Conference in Brussels, Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, told delegates they must think creatively to solve the issues holding back the proliferation of digital radio in Europe. “Let me give you just one example,” she said. “In the absence […]
WizTiVi, an expert in the development and operation of platforms, has developed the new interactive application ComFM, the first radio portal in France. Available on Toshiba’s connected TV service Toshiba Places, the ComFM interactive portal gives access to a wide range of live radio, web-radio and podcasts, as well as original editorial updates. The ComFM […]
WizTiVi, an expert in the development and operation of platforms, has developed the new interactive application ComFM, the first radio portal in France. Available on Toshiba Places, the ComFM interactive portal gives access to a wide range of live radio, webradio and podcasts, as well as original editorial updates. The website www.comfm.com has been adapted […]
The past couple of years have not been good for pay-radio’s prospects in Europe. We’ve seen the Worldspace catastrophe, now well over two years into its Chapter 11 bankruptcy (WS filed in October 2008) and with legal bills still running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. Worldspace’s European and other international operations […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]