 RAIN 7/2: UK's Telegraph says DAB's been a problem; Internet radio "the solution" ·Jul 2, 11:24 AM SOMAFM, LIVE365 AMONG WEBCASTERS “LEADING THE INTERNET REVOLUTION”The UK’s Telegraph muses that with the nation’s government promising broadband for all by 2012, “couldn’t internet radio be the solution everyone has been looking for,” instead of the possibly tricky DAB radio transition scheduled for 2015? According to a recent study by Rajar, 16.9 million adults in Britain say they listen to Internet radio, while 4 million are using jukebox services like Last.fm and Spotify. The publication then goes on to list over a dozen webcasts and music services “leading the Internet revolution.”
Among Telegraph’s picks are Yahoo! Music LaunchCast, Spotify and Live365 TELEGRAPH PICKS 5 BEST WI-FI RADIOSTelegraph sorted through the UK’s wide and diverse selection of tabletop Wi-Fi radios to find 5 best bets. Included are radios from familiar names Logitech (pictured) and Tivoli, as well as some unfamiliar: Blik and NaimUniti. Find the full list, and read Telegraph’s thoughts on each, here.
STREAMING MEDIA BUSINESSES PROJECTED TO GENERATE $78B OVER 6 YEARSInsight Research’s new industry study predicts that streaming audio and video “will be a major source of revenue through 2014,” generating over $78 billion over the next 6 years. The study pegs streaming media businesses to grow at a rate of 27% per year through 2014. “Over the past seven years as we’ve tracked the developments in streaming it has evolved from an esoteric niche to a mainstream market,” said Insight Research president Robert Rosenberg. “What we predicted way back when is coming to fruition.” For more, check out RBR’s coverage here.EMI REJECTS NEW PRS ROYALTY RATESThe UK’s royalty collection agency PRS for Music recently lowered its minimum stream rates (RAIN coverage here), but EMI Publishing’s having none of it. The music label believes the new rates — cut from 0.22p to 0.085p — are too low, and has withdrawn its mechanical rights from PRS. This “doesn’t mean the catalogue will be unavailable, it just means that it’ll have to administer its own royalty collections at the old 0.22p price,” explains Pocket Lint (here). They also note that Universal Music Publishing and Sony/ATV are unhappy about the new rates too. “If they follow EMI, then PRS may be forced into an embarrassing climbdown.” The PRS streaming rates only cover songwriting/publishing copyrights in the UK.
SONOS’ NEW TOUCH-SCREEN REMOTE UNVEILEDJust yesterday, RAIN covered Sony’s new music stereo system (here), which one observer said “puts the Sonos [remote’s] click wheel to shame!“ They may want to take a look at Sonos’ new remote control, featuring touch-screen capabilities. This enables an on-screen QWERTY keyboard, letting users search for artists, albums, or song titles in their libraries. Sonos’ multi-room home media streaming systems accesses Internet radio stations, including Pandora and Last.fm. Last week, Logitech announced that their Squeezebox home media streamer would also be getting a touch-screen (RAIN coverage here). Find out more about the new Sonos remote from Engadget here.
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(“one of the most comprehensive internet radio directories available”). Birdsong Radio — a station playing a looping track of birds singing to half a million daily listeners — and New Jersey’s 
So, now the UK Telegraph has listed some great US internet radio stations, will this pave the way for the UK licensing authorities to finally have their fight with US stations. PPL/PRS in the UK believe it’s the country received for licensing, and tried to charge US stations for UK listeners. PPL/PRS and GeoLock can be used in the same sentence!
— Harry · Jul 2, 12:56 PM · #