Forty Five percent of Americans now listen to online radio occasionally, at least once a month, according to the newly updated Infinite Dial Study by Arbitron and Edison Research. That translates to 120 million Americans, and it’s a number that grew 6% over last year. The weekly number – Americans that listened to online radio [...]

The connected car, once a concept, is now a reality and one that offers significant promise for the audience growth to online stations. One company that’s really driving the integration between your car and connectivity is Aha Radio. By the end of 2013, Aha will be installed into vehicles by more than 10 auto manufacturers which [...]

The Internet radio world is buzzing with talk of new legislation just proposed that would change the standard for determining performance royalties. If it passes, it would likely set the stage for lower rates, which would create a far more attractive playing field for Pandora and others. The services that would be affected are those [...]

One of the best universal portals to Internet radio on the planet is TuneIn. Formerly called RadioTime, TuneIn has been in the business of enabling listeners to search, find and listen to Internet radio for a long time. They’ve been through several rounds of funding and a management shift, not to mention some serious competition, [...]

In their newly updated survey of public radio listeners, Jacobs Media reports that listening to radio is growing, but listening to broadcast radio is declining. While public radio listeners who spent an hour or more a day listening to AM/FM declined 2%, those who listened weekly or more to Internet radio increased 16%. Now 87% [...]

Both Livio and TuneIn are announcing deals related to connected dashboards this week. For the first time, TuneIn announces a dashboard deal that makes the service available without using a smartphone to connect. TuneIn is providing more than 70,000 stations from the popular service directly to Tesla Model S, the world’s first premium electric sedan. Livio meanwhile [...]

PALO ALTO, CA, Jun 22, 2012 MARKETWIRE via COMTEX — TuneIn, a service that lets people listen to the worlds music, sports and news, today announced it has formed strategic alliances with more than 20 major broadcasting companies, whose total number of stations top 600. The company also announced it now carries 70,000 stations, an [...]

The Media Audit Executive Vice President Phillip Beswick presented "Fast Facts on Internet Radio" at RAIN Summit West 2012 earlier this week. The 10-minute presentation was packed with information, including the fact that around 20% of adults 18+ said they listened to Internet radio in the past week (based on 54,000 surveys). That figure jumps [...]

Listening to Internet radio was up 50% last year, according to AccuStream Research’s updated report. Nearly 80% of that listening is to Shoutcast and Pandora. More than 40% of all listening last year was to mobile. Streaming audio ad and subscription revenues were up 64% to $465 million, with the ad spend surpassing subscription revenues [...]

Mercedes and Acura have unveiled new in-car entertainment systems that include web radio integration. Mercedes-Benz’s entertainment system for their A-Class (pictured) includes dashboard support for AUPEO! radio (like Pandora for Europe, more here and here). The platform can also be controlled using an iPhone’s Siri system. Other highlights include “an iPad-like floating display screen.” via [...]

As thousands of radio industry personnel do each day, I climbed on the internet and made my way from one industry trade publication to the next this morning. Its a ritual. Outside of communications from peers, this is the sole way I keep abreast on what radio industry executives deem important – or what the [...]

HD Radio has made no progress in the last couple of years in terms of raising awareness, according to a recent study by Mark Kassof and Company. In fact, according to the report, ”Awareness has actually declined. In ’08, 67% had at least ‘heard of’ HD RADIO; now, 54% do. And consumers’ understanding and misunderstanding of [...]

“In the not-too-distant future, a car with a radio that receives only AM or FM will qualify as an antique.” So says a WSJ article covering a new study released by Deloitte on Generation Y’s automotive buying power and preferences. The study finds that 59% of 19 to 31 year olds place in-car connectivity as the [...]

Late last week Clear Channel announced that it had changed its name from Clear Channel Radio to Clear Channel Media and Entertainment. The new name is meant to reflect the “Company’s Focus on Delivering the Best Entertainment and Most Important Content to Diverse Audiences across Multiple Platforms, Including Broadcast, Satellite, Online and Mobile.” via Clear [...]

It was 1989. Respected and now departed Emmis GM Tom Severino, former Clear Channel GM John Blassingame, and I stood at our 20th high school reunion discussing how, as Tom put it, “running a radio station is like having a license to print money.” Times were easy then. 22 years later, for the radio industry, [...]

Katz360 has dropped Pandora from its list of clients, according to a story in Inside Radio this morning. Katz360 is owned by Katz Media Group which is owned by Clear Channel. Inside Radio is also owned by Clear Channel. via Katz Drops Pandora « Audio4cast.

Its taken over a decade for the radio industry to put effort into its online initiatives. Ignoring an oncoming train has left nearly all of radio in an uncomfortable position of defending its turf instead of dominating the online audio landscape. However, within the past 12 months, there have been more headlines at trade publications [...]

Pandora reported its first profits last week of $638,000 on revenues of $75 million for its third quarter of this year. This beats most analyst’s expectations and dashes last year’s losses for the same period of $1.77 million. Pandora streamed 2.1 billion hours of programmimg -twice the numbers of last year same quarter. According to [...]

In the new world of metered mobile data plans, Onavo has developed an app that is very useful in helping folks keep track of their usage and even select apps that use data efficiently. You can download their app onto your smartphone which compresses the data that your apps use. Onavo recently published data on [...]

The Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that a traditional Internet download of sound recording does not constitute a public performance of the recorded musical work under federal copyright law. The justices refused to review a ruling by an appeals court in New York that the download itself of a musical work does [...]

Rhapsody will acquire Napster from Best Buy and perhaps that will – once and for all – kill off the most notorious company name in online music. I for one am glad to see it go. Napster was launched in 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker to promote illegal online sharing of music in [...]

CNSNews.com – The Fox News Channel beat out local television and CNN as Americans number one source of television news on national and international issues, according to a survey published Thursday by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press. via Pew: Fox News Channel America’s No.1 Source for TV News | CNSnews.com.