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CBS doing about-face with TuneIn?

I clicked 93.7thefan on tunein app but still had the radio.com and it was country music a saint marys station 97.5!
 
RaditazRocks730 said:
I clicked 93.7thefan on tunein app but still had the radio.com and it was country music a saint marys station 97.5!
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I'm sure it will take at least a few days (if not more) and possibly an app update. Checked for a few CBS stations and nada.

What the TuneIn phone app does is direct listeners of a blocked station toward a 'similar' one. Got redirect to some station called "The Game" when I tried WFAN.
 
FightingIrish said:
Seems they struck an agreement to return more than 40 of their news/talk/sports stations to the app/aggregator. No music stations involved thus far.

http://www.radio-info.com/news/cbs-puts-more-than-40-of-its-news-talk-and-sports-stations-on-tunein

Is CBS finally realizing that their Radio.com phone app truly sucks?
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a little of that plus the fact that they never promoted the radio.com app anywhere i saw on their cbs radio affiliate webpages or webstreams. i only found out about the radio.com app from the reviews of tune-in's android app. it could also be that you could still stream cbs stations on mobiles if you had the right streaming program and if the station provided a streaming link you could use on your desktop.

in any case, glad they reversed course and turned tune in stations back on again.
 
I was really upset with CBS and Clear Channel because of taking their stations "exclusive", meaning I had to have 3 apps for all the stations I might want to listen to, so this is good news as TuneIn is my preferred app for streaming.

Radio.com really sucked at first but the last update really, really improved things. So it's kinda odd that they open back up after fixing their own product and making it competitive.
 
There is an update to the TuneIn app posted today to the Play Store, but it doesn't specifically list the CBS stations coming back as one of the changes. (Plus I have to wait for Amazon to get it since I downloaded it through that store. I just checked and the WXYT stations are available, so an app update isn't necessary.) I figured streaming availability was done server-side anyway (like when the CBS stations stopped being available on TuneIn).
 
FightingIrish said:
Is CBS finally realizing that their Radio.com phone app truly sucks?
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One of the things I've learned with running internet businesses is you don't put all your eggs in one basket. The fact that CBS used AOL and Yahoo as well as their own Radio.com shows they understand that you need to put your content on every possible platform. This is partly why so many broadcasters have jumped on IHeartRadio. It's an existing platform, like a car radio, where people go and then navigate within it.
 
TheBigA said:
FightingIrish said:
Is CBS finally realizing that their Radio.com phone app truly sucks?
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One of the things I've learned with running internet businesses is you don't put all your eggs in one basket. The fact that CBS used AOL and Yahoo as well as their own Radio.com shows they understand that you need to put your content on every possible platform. This is partly why so many broadcasters have jumped on IHeartRadio. It's an existing platform, like a car radio, where people go and then navigate within it.
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Except that iHeartRadio IS like putting your eggs in one basket since they require an exclusivity clause meaning that the station's stream can be made available nowhere else but iHeartRadio.

If it's there, it can't be on AOL or Yahoo or anywhere else.
 
Zach said:
If it's there, it can't be on AOL or Yahoo or anywhere else.
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Which is why CBS isn't there. But all the other companies DON'T have an internal platform like Radio.com, and CBS doesn't appear interested in turning it into IHeartRadio, so they put their content on other open sites.
 
TheBigA said:
Zach said:
If it's there, it can't be on AOL or Yahoo or anywhere else.
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Which is why CBS isn't there. But all the other companies DON'T have an internal platform like Radio.com, and CBS doesn't appear interested in turning it into IHeartRadio, so they put their content on other open sites.
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CBS TRIED to turn it into IHR (notice last year when they pulled all their stations off TuneIn), but they couldn't get it right. The phone app was a complete joke, and while they finally did fix many of the issues with it (after six months!!!), it still isn't all that great. Clear Channel did a great job with IHR, in the creation of the platform, the phone app and the promotion. While it would be nice to be able to access all stations from one platform, IHR is good enough that I'll keep it as a second app. CBS just couldn't get it right, and they lost many users in the process. Quite embarrassing.
 
My understanding is one of the main reasons CBS wants its spoken word stations on TuneIn is because TuneIn is or will be integrated into several dashboard devices. Radio.com, on the other hand, isn't yet. However, they still don't want their music stations there because of the extra costs, like wider bandwidth and sound performance royalties. The ads on the Radio.com player make a significant difference in revenue there.

I have mixed feelings about the new Radio.com update. It certainly handles transitions between WiFi and cellular data network better as the old app used to crash. Having the settings within the app instead of in the iPhone settings area is also a huge improvement. I've also noticed, however, that I can no longer save new favorites on the new app, nor can I control in which order the stations I already have appear in my favorites list.
 
Zach said:
TheBigA said:
FightingIrish said:
Is CBS finally realizing that their Radio.com phone app truly sucks?
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One of the things I've learned with running internet businesses is you don't put all your eggs in one basket. The fact that CBS used AOL and Yahoo as well as their own Radio.com shows they understand that you need to put your content on every possible platform. This is partly why so many broadcasters have jumped on IHeartRadio. It's an existing platform, like a car radio, where people go and then navigate within it.
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Except that iHeartRadio IS like putting your eggs in one basket since they require an exclusivity clause meaning that the station's stream can be made available nowhere else but iHeartRadio.
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Not only that but outside of Fox Sports & the user generated custom stations, THE ONLY stations on iHeartRadio are all Chum....err.....Clear Channel stations (Hence the 750 figure they boast)

Cheers ;D
 
Kent said:
I have mixed feelings about the new Radio.com update. It certainly handles transitions between WiFi and cellular data network better as the old app used to crash.
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Not on my Android. THE NEW YORK NANOSECOND I get outside the range of my router, Radio.com stops playing while the phone switches from WiFi to 3G & vice-versa (My carrier is Cricket which doesn't yet support 4G for some oddball reason that continues to bamboozzle me & boggles my mind every day ::) ) & doesn't resume unless/until I manually restart the stream
Having the settings within the app instead of in the iPhone settings area is also a huge improvement. I've also noticed, however, that I can no longer save new favorites on the new app, nor can I control in which order the stations I already have appear in my favorites list.
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The problem with the Android version is if you clear the data using the application manager within the Android OS YOU LOSE YOUR LOGIN INFORMATION (Unfortunately this problem isn't specific to Radio.com itself as I have the same problem with a slew of apps that require login info. to be stored). However TuneIn & IHR seem to be (Thus far anyway) immune to this

The one major bugaboo with Radio.com is they make use of the Facebook login option. But THAT requires the Facebook app to have the same login information. If it doesn't & you attempt to log into Radio.com via Facebook, YOU CANNOT ACCESS YOUR PRESETS !!!!! This is what I like about the Twitter login option. IT IS NOT DEPENDENT ON THE TWITTER APP !!!!! Anytime you login with an app using Twitter, you are taken to a web page (With an actual web browser) that requires you to enter your Twitter account details before authorizing an app. Facebook DOES NOT have this (I wish they would fix this)

From an Android user's perspective.....

Cheers ;D
 
TheBigA said:
Pat Cook said:
THE ONLY stations on iHeartRadio are all Chum....err.....Clear Channel stations (Hence the 750 figure they boast)
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Not true. Cumulus and Greater Media have signed on as well.
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Signed on, maybe BUT I can still get their stations via TuneIn though.....

Cheers ;D
 
Kent said:
... I've also noticed, however, that I can no longer save new favorites on the new app, nor can I control in which order the stations I already have appear in my favorites list.
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That's funny, because I have the same issue with iHeartRadio. In fact, the last update promised "saved station improvement." Yeah, "saved station improvement" my [self-edited]. :mad:
 
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