Category Archives: Technology

Ibiquity sells its soul

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Fred Stiening

HDRadio is the brand name and trademark for Ibiquity’s digital over the air radio that won FCC approval as the official (patented and proprietary) delivery method for AM and FM digital radio in 2002. It permits CD quality AM and … Continue reading →

Posted in IHeart Media, Mobile Streaming, Technology | 13 Comments

Tunein goes Premium

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Tunein introduced a new paid subscription service. The main feature is 600 channels will be available without commercials, with carefully selected filler music covering the commercial breaks, along with Baseball. http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/25/tunein-launches-tunein-premium-with-ad-free-radio-audiobooks-mlb-games/ Tunein is a much bigger deal than SRGuide is … Continue reading →

Posted in About the Guide, Mobile Streaming | 1 Comment

Competition is good

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Fred Stiening

The CEO of Emmis Radio has been on a campaign for a long time to get cell phone makers to enable their capability to listen to FM radio stations (the Wifi connection is itself just an FM receiver, so this … Continue reading →

Posted in About the Guide, emmis, Mobile Streaming, Radio Biz | 6 Comments

Neil Young wants to bring back 8 track tapes

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Fred Stiening

http://news.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/headline_id=n31469 I believe that makes it official.

Posted in Mobile Streaming, Radio Biz | 4 Comments

The case for GMOs

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Vitamin A deficiency kills a lot of children, and leaves much of the developing world with night blindness. I have night blindness, which may or may not be caused by Vitamin A Deficiency. (VAD) the list of foods that contain … Continue reading →

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The Death of Winamp

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Nullsoft was the company behind Winamp and Shoucast, the MP3 streaming service. They used to be the main rival to Microsoft’s Windows Media Player. They got sucked into the AOL bubble at the point AOL was sucking the hardest – … Continue reading →

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Which brand will your next car be – Apple or Google?

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Fred Stiening

GM has sided with Google. At their developers conference, Google laid out their vision for many things, one of which is Android Auto Working in conjunction with your Android phone, your console can show turn by turn navigation, make phone … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, Mobile Streaming, Technology | 12 Comments

A Holiday gift for Android users

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Securenet is one of the survivors in the radio streaming business. Unlike iHeartRadio, Rdio, SiriusXM, Tunein, Stitcher, etc – aggregators who put many stations in one App, Securenet sells apps to stations one at a time. Joining an aggregator just … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Streaming | 1 Comment

Why music radio has become so awful

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Nautel LPFM webinar This is sales material for probably the world’s leading manufacturer of high power radio transmitters. It’s pretty amazing technology – if you watch radio stations as much as I have, you realize that most radio stations are … Continue reading →

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The future of Mobile Streaming

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Up until recently, if you wanted to listen to a radio station on your cell phone or iPad, you need an app like ooTunes, iHeartRadio or tuneIn. With the introduction of Internet connected entertainment systems in new cars, over the … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Streaming, Player Metrics, Radio Biz | 2 Comments