 RAIN 4/7: Net radio now reaches 42M weekly in the U.S.; listening up 27% in past year ·Apr 7, 11:50 AM 17% OF AMERICANS TUNE IN AT LEAST WEEKLY, SAYS STUDY Internet radio’s weekly U.S. audience has hit 42 million, according to Arbitron’s and Edison Research’s latest Infinite Dial study.
That represents 17% of Americans age 12 and older, and it’s more than double the audience of 2005, estimated at 20 million people. As our own chart indicates, listening to Internet radio in the U.S. has surged in the past year, growing more than 27% over the study’s 2008 finding of 33 million (note the grey bars in the graph are from the study; we’ve superimposed the orange bars to better indicate the growth trajectory). Arbitron and Edison will present the rest of the study on radio’s digital platforms (as well as consumer use of media and technology) in a free one-hour webinar on April 16 at 1pm Central Time (2pm Eastern). Register for the webinar here. LAST.FM, PANDORA PART OF YAHOO! MUSIC REVAMPYahoo!, whose Launchcast Radio was traditionally an Internet radio listening leader, has redesigned its Yahoo! Music site, and now incorporates links to content from other providers, including webcasters Last.fm and Pandora.
As of today, Yahoo! Music artist pages now include links to music videos from YouTube as well as “Listen to this artist” links to Last.fm and Pandora, and Flickr and iTunes links. Formerly, Yahoo provided all of this content and these services themselves, including the Launchcast service (which was taken over by CBS Radio last year). But as San Jose Mercury News’s SiliconValley.com reports, “Now it’s betting that it can better compete against MySpace and other music sites by getting back to its roots as a conduit to information and services provided by other companies.” Read SiliconValley.com here. Yahoo! will also release an API to developers, so other sites can build applications for it. Eliot Van Buskirk reports in Wired, “The move marks a return to Yahoo’s core mission: to act as a directory of content, rather than providing the stuff itself — an expensive proposition, as Yahoo found out during its webcasting negotiations.” Read his coverage here. BLOGGER: IPOD’s “IN-CAR” STREAMING RADIO WILL SHOOT DOWN SATELLITETwo rumored iPod/iPhone upgrades would spell the beginning of the end for satellite radio, says ComputerWorld blogger Mike Elgan. The rumored updgrades — one would give the devices 802.11n capability, the other Bluetooth streaming — basically would both enable owners to “broadcast” whatever their device is playing to their car stereo.
“One of the most popular (and fastest growing) application types on iPhones is Pandora and its ilk, including iheart radio, Public Radio and other streaming services, writes Elgan. “The satellite radio proposition has always been that you get superior radio, but you have to pay a lot for it. Changes in the iPhone mean that the best ‘radio’ experience will be via iPhone, and at no additional charge beyond what you’re going to pay for the phone and data anyway. Read the blog in ComputerWorld here. AUSTRALIA WANTS 100MBPS NET SPEEDS IN 90% OF HOMESAustralian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced a high-speed Internet expansion plan with the hefty price tag of A$43 billion ($30.6 in US dollars). The goal is a blazing speed of 100Mbps for 90% of homes using fiber optic cable, and 12Mbps using satellite connections for the remaining households. The project is planned to take 7-8 years. For more, check out Engadget’s coverage here.share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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