 RAIN 4/1: Eight more speakers confirmed for RAIN Summit '09 ·Apr 1, 12:13 PM COX’S LINDAHL, BONNEVILLE’S BANZ AMONG EIGHT NEW SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED FOR RAIN SUMMITToday we add eight more names to the roster of industry experts slated to appear at the RAIN Internet Radio Summit 2009,  Monday April 20th in Las Vegas.
[See confirmed speakers already announced here.] Joining us for a discussion on Monetization (and revenue beyond streaming) is VP of Cox Radio Interactive and New Technologies Gregg Lindahl (pictured right). Also, Russell Banz, VP of New Media with Bonneville International (pictured at left), will participate in our panel discussion on Mobile Platforms. Triton Media will be represented by COO Mike Agovino (at right) and EVP Billy Freund (left). Both will take part in the Revenue Development and Monetization panels. Jacobs Media GM Paul Jacobs (right) will present results from his company’s Tech Survey V, the latest in their annual consumer study focusing on mobile devices and podcasts. Ando Media COO Bob Maccini (at left) will also do a presentation, sharing some of the interesting findings from his company’s monthly Webcast Metrics audience studies. Rounding out today’s announcement are Johnie Floater (pictured bottom right), GM/Media at Live365, and Net Radio Sales founder Jennifer Lane (at bottom left), who’s writing the daily Audio4Cast blog. Already announced Summit guests include Brian Benedik of Katz 360, Google Audio’s Jag Duggal, Bill Goldsmith from Radio Paradise, RadioTime’s Dan Halyburton, T.J. Lambert of Radiolicious, Pandora’s Cheryl Lucanegro, industry attorney David Oxenford, Doug Perlson of TargetSpot, Ari Shohat of Digitally Imported Radio, and Edison Research’s Tom Webster. For the first time, the RAIN Summit will be an official co-located event of the NAB Show, which means RAIN Summit registrants will receive access to the 2009 NAB Show exhibits. The RAIN Summit will take place at the Renaissance Hotel Las Vegas adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center. For more information (including a preliminary agenda), to inquire about sponsorship opportunities, or to register for the RAIN Internet Radio Summit 2009, visit the Summit page here. SMYTH TO BROADCASTERS: GET STREAMING, RIGHT NOWGreater Media CEO Peter Smyth writes in his “From the Corner Office” blog that it’s no longer a question for broadcasters whether or not to stream online. “It is vital for radio to follow our audience, to make ourselves available on new platforms and in new forms as the digital environment changes,” he writes. “If we don’t, we jeopardize our future as an industry. If we are not moving forward, we are losing ground.”
Smyth acknowledges the costs of streaming online are high. SoundExchange royalty fees, not to mention bandwidth, and competition with established Internet-only webcasters makes streaming difficult. “That’s today; but what about tomorrow, next year, or 2020? We are actively searching for the proper business model for streaming audio and we cannot abdicate that search to the Internet-only pure play operators. The extension of our established, local brand names onto digital devices is just another chapter in radio’s evolution to a multi-platform local media company.” Smyth’s entire blog post can be found here. DOZEN ONLINE STREAMS “MAKE THE BOOKS” IN FEB PPM DATATwelve AM/FM online streams made the books in Arbitron’s February PPM data. To “make the books,” a stream must generate a minimum weekly Cume rating of 0.495. Nine markets were represented, including New York, Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles. Though most of the twelve had an AQH share of 0.1, KSFO in San Jose and WPLJ of Middlesex grabbed a 0.9 share. Tom Taylor notes in his daily newsletter, that the popularity of AC online streams “[reminds] us that this is mostly in-office listening we’re talking about.”
“The single most curious thing” in Arbitron’s numbers, according to Taylor, is that Chicago station WBBM-FM scored a 0.5 Cume share and 0.1 AQH…in Detroit. For more, check out Radio Ink’s coverage here or the release from Arbitron here (PDF, webcast data on page 40). PLENTY OF UPDATES FROM PANDORA AND SLACKERA steady stream of updates have been coming in lately from Pandora and Slacker. Both have incorporated lyrics into their streams. Slacker’s lyrics will also appear on the service’s Blackberry application, as well as on their iPhone and Android apps soon (more here). The Blackberry lyrics support for Slacker comes as part of a general update for the app, which includes support for Bluetooth headsets.
Meanwhile, Pandora listeners can be access a song’s lyrics in-stream, as well as by searching for the track here. For more, check out Pandora’s blog update here. Pandora has also added support for the Blackberry 8900. Finally, Pandora has partnered with SonicLiving to deliver personalized concert calenders to listeners. For more, read SonicLiving’s press release (PDF) here. share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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