What Apple Should Do To Make Beats Music Successful
Late last week the news broke that Apple is buying Beats Audio for $3.2 billion. As most observers have noted, this is an unusually large acquisition for Apple, which tends not to buy companies that already have such prominent brands, for so much money. With the Beats acquisition Apple gets a successful audio company selling […]
Blowing in the wind? Pandora to launch Kleenex music channel
Pandora is now experimenting with channels sponsored by Kleenex, Taco Bell, and Sketchers. These are called Promoted Stations. Here’s the dope straight from the source: “Listeners that are part of the beta launch will have these stations auto-populate, one station at a time, in the ‘Stations You Might Like’ sections of their playlists. This allows […]
College Radio Watch: WRAS-FM Changes Spark Protests
The big college radio news this week is of course the format changes coming to WRAS-FM. On Tuesday, WRAS-FM student staffers were surprised to hear that they would soon lose programming control over the station’s daytime FM broadcasts. Georgia State University entered into a deal with Georgia Public Broadcasting that will allow the public radio […]
Songbot Radio Search App Is Free for Mother’s Day Weekend
If you like finding songs playing anywhere in the world with RadioSearchEngine.com, then you might enjoy a radio app that is free for Mother’s Day weekend. Songbot is a nice-looking app for iOS that works quite smoothly, with quick search and streaming. It’s normal price is $4.99. Android users can try XiiaLive, which is typically […]
LPFM Watch: New Radio Stations Coming to Military Academy and Jazz Institute, plus more LPFM News
Although there hasn’t been much LPFM news this week, the handful of newly granted construction permits represent an interesting cross-section of community groups. As of May 7, there have been 1193 applications granted. The new grantees this week include the following: Community Action Corp (Isabela, Puerto Rico) – This group has as its mission to […]
Spotify: are we listening or perseverating?
Paul Lamere’s Music Machinery blog has a revelation that caught my eye. Tracking billions of Spotify plays for a research project, the Development Platform Director for The Echo Nest reports that almost one in four Spotify users will skip a song within the first five seconds of play. The probability that the content will be skipped […]
Lessons from a Year of Podcasting, Mike Pesca’s The Gist Debuts
Before I dive in, I’d like to mention a short piece that comes from The Fizzle Show podcast, which is “for people building their thing online.” The show recently had its first anniversary, and on the 52nd episode the hosts shared “24 lessons learned in a year of podcasting.” It’s both a lighthearted and useful […]
Students at Georgia State’s College Radio Station WRAS to Lose Daytime FM in Deal with Public Radio Group
Big changes are coming to student-run radio station WRAS at Georgia State University. This morning, students and staff at the station learned that student-produced programming will no longer broadcast over the powerful 100,000 watt FM station during daytime hours. Administrators at Georgia State University entered into an agreement with Georgia Public Broadcasting unbeknownst to the […]
Mandarin Pop! four great Grooveshark broadcast channels
I am wandering about Grooveshark this week, and there is much to enjoy. Here are some broadcast channels well worth exploring: Film Scores Too. A very nice continuous stream of movie and personal soundtrack tunes. Very good choices. As I write the room keepers are playing Italian soundtrack composer Ludovico Einaudi’s Una Mattina, a gorgeous […]
Minnesota Public Radio Station “The Current” Launches a Beer
Back in 2011, Radio Survivor’s Paul Riismandel asked the question, “Does Your Radio Station Have Its Own Beer?” After discovering a vintage co-branded beer can, he wondered why a community station today didn’t team up with a local craft brewery. Flash forward to 2014 and Minnesota Public Radio station “The Current” has announced that it […]