Internet killed the FM radio star.

[vsa]

Internet killed the FM radio star.

From "The Sun" newspaper in the UK, "If 2007 was the year DAB radios took off, then 2008 is going to be all about the Internet radio. That's a device that can stream stations using a wireless net connection from around the world...INTEMPO's addition to the fold is called DAISY...It has a rechargeable battery capable of 20 hours of play and there is also a normal FM band for when you don't have WiFi broadband at hand."

Photo and more at the link:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gizmo/article669494.ece

 

[Radioman100]

Internet killed the FM radio star.

From "The Sun" newspaper in the UK, "If 2007 was the year DAB radios took off, then 2008 is going to be all about the Internet radio. That's a device that can stream stations using a wireless net connection from around the world...INTEMPO's addition to the fold is called DAISY...It has a rechargeable battery capable of 20 hours of play and there is also a normal FM band for when you don't have WiFi broadband at hand."

Photo and more at the link:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gizmo/article669494.ece

Do the CRB royalty rates apply in the UK? If not, internet radio might have some chance of surviving there.

 

[vsa]

Internet killed the FM radio star.

From "The Sun" newspaper in the UK, "If 2007 was the year DAB radios took off, then 2008 is going to be all about the Internet radio. That's a device that can stream stations using a wireless net connection from around the world...INTEMPO's addition to the fold is called DAISY...It has a rechargeable battery capable of 20 hours of play and there is also a normal FM band for when you don't have WiFi broadband at hand."

Photo and more at the link:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gizmo/article669494.ece

Do the CRB royalty rates apply in the UK?  If not, internet radio might have some chance of surviving there.

Unless the United States invades the UK, the CRB rates do not apply in that sovereign country. Despite the unsettled turmoil caused by the United States Copyright Royalty Board, not a single U-S webcaster to my knowledge has shut down. Not one. That is a testament to the power and popularity of this nascent medium.

Have you seen the newest line of Streamium Internet radios by Philips? They were just unveiled at CES in Las Vegas.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/01/ces-philips-str.html


 

 

[Radioman100]

Internet killed the FM radio star.

From "The Sun" newspaper in the UK, "If 2007 was the year DAB radios took off, then 2008 is going to be all about the Internet radio. That's a device that can stream stations using a wireless net connection from around the world...INTEMPO's addition to the fold is called DAISY...It has a rechargeable battery capable of 20 hours of play and there is also a normal FM band for when you don't have WiFi broadband at hand."

Photo and more at the link:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gizmo/article669494.ece

Do the CRB royalty rates apply in the UK? If not, internet radio might have some chance of surviving there.

Unless the United States invades the UK, the CRB rates do not apply in that sovereign country. Despite the unsettled turmoil caused by the United States Copyright Royalty Board, not a single U-S webcaster to my knowledge has shut down. Not one. That is a testament to the power and popularity of this nascent medium.

I'd be willing to bet almost anything that by the time it's all said and done, it will be impossible to provide streaming to America from abroad without paying the CRB rates.

 

[vsa]

Internet killed the FM radio star.

From "The Sun" newspaper in the UK, "If 2007 was the year DAB radios took off, then 2008 is going to be all about the Internet radio. That's a device that can stream stations using a wireless net connection from around the world...INTEMPO's addition to the fold is called DAISY...It has a rechargeable battery capable of 20 hours of play and there is also a normal FM band for when you don't have WiFi broadband at hand."

Photo and more at the link:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gizmo/article669494.ece

Do the CRB royalty rates apply in the UK?  If not, internet radio might have some chance of surviving there.

Unless the United States invades the UK, the CRB rates do not apply in that sovereign country. Despite the unsettled turmoil caused by the United States Copyright Royalty Board, not a single U-S webcaster to my knowledge has shut down. Not one. That is a testament to the power and popularity of this nascent medium.

I'd be willing to bet almost anything that by the time it's all said and done, it will be impossible to provide streaming to America from abroad without paying the CRB rates.

Wow, you're soooooo fearful of Internet radio that you're actually hoping and praying that the record companies will shut it down. Is that the only way your living as an HD radio engineer can be preserved? If Internet radio was to be killed, the record companies would make NO MONEY from royalties. Even the RIAA is not that stupid.

You keep saying that Pandora will be shutting down due to high CRB royalties. Does the following from earlier this month read like they have plans to shut down?

"Reciva and Pandora have announced their partnership to make Pandora available on Reciva-powered Internet Radio receivers and networked devices in the US. Products from more than 30 Consumer Electronics brands are expected to be upgraded to offer Pandora's unique Internet radio service. Pandora (www.pandora.com) is a personalized music service which has exploded in popularity to more than 10 million users, almost entirely by word of mouth."

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS68680+07-Jan-2008+BW20080107

 

[clouseau]

The title of this thread is kinda funny.

This song was popular "The Buggles - VIDEO Killed the Radio Star" in 1981. It was the first video ever played on MTV (As I'm sure everyone knows.)

The song was positioned as the beginning fof the end for radio.

Now, 27 years later, MTV doesn't play music videos and some of today's sucessful radio PD's weren't even born when it procalimed radio's death.

What is it someone said? "Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated".

Sorry for the OT observation.

Clouseau

 

[vsa]

The title of this thread is kinda funny.

This song was popular "The Buggles - VIDEO Killed the Radio Star" in 1981. It was the first video ever played on MTV (As I'm sure everyone knows.)

The song was positioned as the beginning fof the end for radio.

Now, 27 years later, MTV doesn't play music videos and some of today's sucessful radio PD's weren't even born when it procalimed radio's death.

What is it someone said? "Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated".

Sorry for the OT observation.

Clouseau

The title of this thread is named after the newspaper headline linked in the first posting of this thread. Of course MTV was never going to kill off radio. Television requires active attention. Radio listening is more passive, etc. However, one form of radio delivery can gradually supplant another form of radio delivery - sort of like what FM has done to AM. I think that's what the newspaper headline and thread title is all about.

 

[vsa]

Digital audio streaming solutions for the home that feature Internet radio are catching on. Here's one of the newest.

Logitech's new Squeezebox Duet: the $400 network digital audio streamer employs a winning handheld remote with a brilliant color screen (not unlike an iPod) that lets you navigate your entire music collection--including some online services and the majority of free Internet radio stations--from the palm of your hand, even while you hear the music from the big speakers of your home stereo.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/01/14/logitech.squeezebox/

How does satellite and terrestrial radio compete with something like this?

 

[dave388]

well, I can say there is ways around the u.s. laws when it comes to internet. because the internet spans world wide all a us internet station has to do is lease a server outside of the U.S. i know a few that have leased servers from the u.k. which really gets confusing on (who law applys)