 RAIN 10/9: Online music retailer to promote service with its own Net radio station ·Oct 9, 11:30 AM AMIE STREET TO USE PORTION OF $3.9M FUNDING TO DEVELOP NET RADIO STATIONOnline music retailer Amie Street has raised $3.9 million second round of funding, which part will go to develop an Internet radio station around on-demand music search engine Songza technology.
Certainly a strategy like this says something regarding this particular music retailer’s belief in Internet radio’s role in music discovery and promotion — and the likelihood of Net radio exposure leading to sales. Amie Street acquired Songza in 2008. Find out more at GigaOM here. ROSS ON RADIO MULLS CROWD-SOURCE WEBCASTING AND MUSIC THAT’S APPEALING BECAUSE IT’S POPULARRadio programming and research expert Sean Ross considers some interactive webcasters’ “crowd-source” programming — that is, letting audience opinion shape the selection of music everyone hears (as opposed to a serving each listener a customized stream), such as that of Jelli.com or the new Last.fm Discover. “Ponder how New Platform- and blog-envy have driven many FM broadcasters to try and reinvent themselves as ‘curators’ in recent years,” Ross writes in his “Ross on Radio” column. “How ironic would it be if, while they were doing that, the Webcasters who are thought to have staked out that territory were to end up as the ones who played the biggest hits for the largest possible audience?” Subscribe to Ross’s column here.
AUTONET RELEASES DEVELOPER KIT TO BRING NET ACCESS TO CAR DASHBOARDSIn-car Wi-Fi hotspot tech firm Autonet has created a developer kit which will allow its hotspots to be included in new car dashboard computers. Autonet hotspots connect to EV-DO cellular networks, then share the Internet connection via Wi-Fi. This could mean that you could not only tune in to Internet radio in your car, but everyone else in the car with a Wi-Fi device could listen to their own webcasts as well. Find out more from Autonet’s press release here.NET RADIO EXPERTS DISCUSS MEDIUM’S FUTURE AT DMF WESTDigital Podcast has a few of the panelists’ comments from yesterday’s “Future of Internet Radio” panel at the Digital Music Forum West, in which RAIN publisher and AccuRadio founder Kurt Hanson participated. Also on the panel: Little Radio founder Dave Conway, Live365 Media GM Johnie Floater, and Slacker SVP/Strategic Development Jim Rondinelli. It was moderated by industry legal expert David Oxenford of Davis, Wright, Tremaine LLP. It’s here.
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