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IHeart Radio availabililty on Internet Radios

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alg2468

Hi:

I have two internet radios, one by Grace Digital that uses the Reciva app, and the other by Vistaquest using the Tune In app.

The Grace Radio has the Iheart owned stations listed and you can listen to their stream on the radio, including the talk stations.

The Vistaquest Radio uses the Tune IN app. When you use the Tune In App on your computer, you can listen to any IHeart owned station. But when trying to listen to any IHeart owned station on the radio using Tune In, the station cannot be received, a message is displayed that it's a non supported stream, but the radio does receive all AAC streams from any non-Iheart owned station. When I contacted Tune IN, they sent me a message saying that IHeart has requested that all of their stations streams be blocked from being listened to when you use the Tune IN app on an internet radio.

Why would Iheart do something foolish like this?
 
Because they own their own competing platform, and want you to use theirs. Just as CBS owns their own platform, aka radio.com

So download the iheartradio app and you can receive all iheart stations plus a bunch of others.
 
Thanks. The solution is for Iheart to make the app downloadable to internet radio manufacturers for use on their radios.
 
CBS, however, makes its stations available on TuneIn as well as Radio.com. That's a good thing because the Radio.com app doesn't seem to like my car audio system, and it's garbage on Roku and only slightly better on Windows 10.

iHeartRadio works a lot better across platforms (probably the biggest reason to use it), though I've noticed the Roku app missing a few stations, and the Kaspersky anti-virus at my work seems to be blocking non-iHeart stations on the Windows 10 app.

Broadcasters, however, have a right decide where they want their streams to be. More and more of them seem to be thinking they should provide as many listening options as possible, though some, like iHeart and Townsquare, are very protective of their content. Townsquare didn't even allow its stations to be in TuneIn's directory until a year or two ago. They force everyone to use RadioPup.
 
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