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Apple has unveiled iTunes Radio. The new service, which launches this fall, is a station-based radio player. Pick an artist like Led Zeppelin, start a new “station” for that artist, and iTunes radio will begin playing a songs by that band, with other songs from similar bands (The Rolling Stones, The Kinks) mixed in. It resembles Pandora Radio more so than on-demand services like Rdio and Spotify, where you can pick the exact songs or albums you want to hear. Like Pandora, iTunes Radio chooses songs for you using algorithms. You can create new stations, and rate the songs you like or dislike as they stream. It learns your preferences and modifies the station to better suit your tastes.
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Apple is gearing up to sell audio ads on a music-streaming service it intends to unveil at its developers conference next week, sources have told Reuters, going up against Google and US-based Pandora Media in the increasingly competitive market for mobile music.
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It's no secret that radio audience size has been declining rapidly over the last decade. Recently, a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan has confirmed what many have been speculating; that these numbers have been drastically reduced to the demographic of human beings who spend hours of their day driving to and from work on highways with four or more lanes.
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A radio that has the ability to alter scripts and other content depending on its location and other factors is being developed by the BBC.
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Twenty-six million people, half the population of the UK are now tuning in to digital radio each week, the latest figures show. And digital radio listening hours now account for 34.3% of all radio listening, up 17% year on year.
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New Radio 1 breakfast DJ Nick Grimshaw has lost nearly a million listeners since taking over from Chris Moyles, plunging to the flagship show to its lowest audience for a decade.
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Swedish Radio has identified 12 editorial priorities. The first of them, which is about using social media and interactivity, reads: "Develop Journalism 3.0 and the relationship with the audiences. Social media is here to help us strengthen our audience relationship." There are two main reasons for us to participate in social media. The first reason is purely selfish: we want our content to be shared and spread as much as possible.
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DAB and DAB+ are the future for European digital radio, according to key figures in the industry who addressed the Radiodays Europe conference in Berlin. Sessions focused on the move towards turning off analogue services and the possibilities for hybrid radios combining digital broadcasting and the internet.
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Figures released by Pandora show that in 2012 its users listened to more than a million different songs by over 100 thousand different artists. Ten per cent of these artists were streamed to more than a quarter of a million unique listeners. This totalled over 13 billion hours of music.
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Next month's Radio Week (11-15 February) will see EBU headquarters become a hive of activity around digital and hybrid radio, with meetings and activities addressing the full spectrum of issues affecting the technologies and how they are used.
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Ford has announced a new developer program which will allow radio stations gain space on a vehicle’s digital screen via apps. The SYNC© AppLink™ already includes a way to listen to the radio via smartphones, with Pandora, Stitcher smart radio and iHeartRadio on board, but now Ford is opening it up to any station – regardless of whether the station is online, AM, FM, or digital.
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The internet is changing society and human behaviour in fundamental ways. Even the English language is not immune from the effects of online culture.
In media, the internet has transformed not only the way that we distribute content, but also the way that audiences engage and interact with content.
The culture of agile software development is now influencing the way that broadcasters create new programmes. For the first time, programme makers are experimenting with their very own beta development strategy, which means launching new products that are feature complete, but are not yet fully debugged or "road tested".
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The BBC says it is “reinventing” red button interaction to bring together television, radio and online media. The integration launches on the Virgin Media TiVo service, available in 1.2 million homes in the United Kingdom. The new connected red button features will roll out to other internet connected television platforms over the coming months. While the design is a great improvement, favouring a commercial platform and failing to support from the outset the new YouView joint venture in which it is a partner suggests that the BBC strategy is far from connected.
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iTunes Radio is essentially what we’ve been hearing it would be: a streaming music service that takes your tastes into account in order to play tracks that are likely to be in line with your tastes. Apple really has essentially taken its Genius jukebox-style feature, which combs your library and builds genre-based playlists, or suggests recommended artists and tracks based on what you’re currently listening to. The difference with the new service is that it can access the entire iTunes catalog, which, at this point, is well over 26 million tracks. Sony, Universal and Warner are all on board.
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No longer an oddity, digital radio in many corners of the world is becoming an important part of the mediascape and a next step in the evolution of content delivery.
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Similar to the way InstaPaper lets you queue up blog posts and news article to read later, Later.fm lets you save songs from around the web for future listening by clicking a bookmarklet in your browser’s bookmark bar. Songs are stored on Later.fm, where you can listen to them at your convenience. Once you’ve collected songs and listened to them, you can remember your favorites by “loving” them (i.e. clicking a heart icon).
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A hard core of listeners over the age of 55 are threatening BBC Radio 1’s reinvention as a cool “youth” brand by refusing to switch off the station.
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Google has formally announced its new subscription music initiative, Google Play Music All Access. Rumors first broke that Google was working on the service earlier this year.
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Jørn Jensen is best known outside his native Norway as President of the WorlDMB Forum, but he also works for the Norwegian public service broadcaster, NRK, whom he joined in 1986 after a 10 year career as a musician. Jorn initially made radio programmes for NRK's Music Department, but over the years he has become increasingly involved in programme production and development, as well as the creation of new digital stations.
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Mark Rock is the founder of Audioboo.fm, the social way to share your voice, narratives, stories and news. Mark has recently passed along the CEO role to focus more on strategic thinking for the company, as well as working on some new startups in diverse fields and, finally, spending a little more time with his wife, dog, five guinea pigs and four children.
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Helen Boaden is taking up the new role of Director, BBC Radio from April. Here’s her email to staff saying goodbye, and hello.
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Is it possible to create community radio without a studio or a tower? With his Knight News Challenge project, RootIO, Chris Csikszentmihalyi wants to enable neighborhoods and other small communities to develop a network of radio stations using mobile phones, simple transmitters, and other low-cost tools.
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Not enough car manufacturers are taking the digital radio switchover seriously.
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Steve Pratt is the Director of Digital Music for CBC, including CBC Music, the home of music at Canada's public broadcaster. CBC Music is designed for Canadian music fans, offering a choice of 50 free web radio stations, 12 genre-based online communities, original digital editorial content from teams across the Canada, and a community of over 30,000 artists who have uploaded over 150,000 songs to the service.
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The average age of a car in the U.S. is now 11 years old – and that means that in the next year or so, many Americans will be in the market for a new vehicle. And many of these consumers will purchase one that is equipped with a system like Ford’s SYNC and Toyota’s Entune. This is significant because as we learned in Techsurvey8, a majority of our 57,300 respondents say the lion’s share of the broadcast radio listening takes place behind the wheel.
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