I thought Audacy sold the Radio.com domain?
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Audacy stations coming to iHeart
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If so, they haven't closed on it, because the WhoIs still says Audacy Atlas.
I hope that Audacy don't geo-block their stations on the iHeart app. I'd love to listen to the likes of 1010 WINS, KNX, KROQ etc here in Australia.
Audacy Stations Come To iHeartRadio App
Audacy and iHeartMedia have announced that Audacy will bring its radio stations and podcasts to the iHeartRadio app. iHeartMedia saysradioinsight.com
It’ll be nice to have everything in one place for streaming on the iHeart app. Audacy is supposedly continuing with their app, but I still haven’t come across anyone who likes it, much less uses it.
Do they geoblock their stations in Australia? If you have the IHeartRadio app there, check to see if it's there.
Chances are, if you're not already able to receive those stations, this probably won't change things. Still the same stream.
I use to have the Audacy app, but it was annoying jumping in and out of VPN's just to listen. I can get iHeart stations fine. The Audacy (at the moment) stations aren't online yet.
I realize corporate management can be dense sometimes, but the lesson learned here was arguably that the listener is in control, and being where the audience wants you is better and makes more money than trying to force it to where you are.
You also would seem to think a Cumulus takeover or merger is happening. It might happen, but it’s not a given. The person who was really trying to force that hand has already cashed out his investment in Cumulus. That doesn’t mean it still couldn’t happen, but it seems less likely than it did a few months ago.
Those two options are not mutually exclusive. The web may have changed the dynamic while also busting itself. Some might say radio is already proving that.
My son and his friends have figured out how to skip the ads on YouTube. I just wonder how many folks are doing that.
A simple ad blocker will do it, which is why Google blocked the most popular ad blocking extension from its Chrome browser and is currently taking steps to make YouTube malfunction when it detects certain ad blockers.
The rivalry between companies serving ads vs. people trying to avoid them is an age-old cat & mouse game though, isn't it? At least with radio, listeners are pretty much still limited to hitting the next preset button to punch out ads. (Does this work with the newly-added presets feature on the iHeart app, though? I haven't tried yet).
With TV, I can remember, even as a kid, my family made a sport out of who could hit the mute button fastest when the ads started. Later, when DVRs came along, ReplayTV got sued out of existence for its automatic ad-skipping technology, but now TiVo offers it, along with the 30-second skip button on all other DVRs. That's one key reason why media companies have been so enthusiastic about migrating to streaming platforms where most people are forced to sit through their ads without the ability to skip them (yet).
I would love to live in a world where everyone still played the ad-supported media game fairly and ethically, where exchanging a few minutes of your time consuming ads for the privilege of accessing free content worked well for everyone, where the audience was respected and all the stakeholders understood an acceptable balance. But as we all know, that's rarely the case. From excessively long, scam-filled spot breaks on radio to the multitude of pop-ups, unwanted redirects and other aggressive, in-the-way-wall ads in your face that infest so many websites (including this one, I'm afraid), these are the things that really drive people to actively block them.
I'd gladly endure a few banner and sidebar ads for the privilege of using most websites. But I draw the line at the ones where the screen gets obliterated by endless dropdowns, pop-overs and scammy links that can't be dismissed and in many cases are flat-out malicious. And sadly, there are lots of radio stations that are the audio equivalent of websites like that. Outlets that ruin the experience to such an extreme degree that you end up wondering where the actual content is seem to have become the norm in modern society.
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No one wants to hear what I just heard and there needs to be some way to block THAT.
Excellent article by Lance:
radioinsight.com
I've long found the station search functionality on the iHeartRadio platform to be utterly awful. There are other issues with the streaming experience on that platform as well, but I won't delve into those right now.
I'm happy to see that issue is being given some much needed visibility.
iHeart’s Streaming Conquest Means It Must Be More Benevolent To Others
Seventeen years after launching the iHeartRadio app, iHeartMedia can now claim it has won the broadcast streaming platform wars. Monday's
radioinsight.com
I've long found the station search functionality on the iHeartRadio platform to be utterly awful. There are other issues with the streaming experience on that platform as well, but I won't delve into those right now.
I'm happy to see that issue is being given some much needed visibility.
I have been blind all of my life. While I had light and shadow perception until around 2000, it was not enough for me to read even the largest of print.
Excellent article by Lance:
iHeart’s Streaming Conquest Means It Must Be More Benevolent To Others
Seventeen years after launching the iHeartRadio app, iHeartMedia can now claim it has won the broadcast streaming platform wars. Monday's
I've long found the station search functionality on the iHeartRadio platform to be utterly awful. There are other issues with the streaming experience on that platform as well, but I won't delve into those right now.
I'm happy to see that issue is being given some much needed visibility.
If memory serves, the first non-IHeart owned stations to show up on the IHeart platform were public stations WNYC-AM and WNYC-FM in New York, NY and KCRW-FM in Santa Monica (Los Angeles), California. I could be wrong but I don't believe that Audacy ever had any public radio stations using its service.
That's too bad, but you seem to get by very well despite it, which is quite impressive to me.
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Thank you for the compliment.
This right here.
The irony and pride of dumping Radio.com for a name nobody can say or spell, just to fold to a competitor with "Radio" in the name...
What a friggin joke of a company!
A U D.....A C Y.... so dumb you have to spell it out to people.
No one ever had to spell out CBS or Radio.com to anyone. Immediate failure.