Category Archives: Mobile Streaming

Tunein goes Social

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Tunein is pushing a major change to their product http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/07/tunein-gets-a-social-tune-up-may-change-how-you-think-of-radio/ While there is some overlap in what we do, I don’t consider StreamingRadioGuide to be competing with Tunein. Profit or accumulating wealth has never been my objective. Tunein is run … Continue reading →

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The lawsuit that could kill this web site…

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Don’t panic! I’m not being sued 🙂 A small station operator in Virginia has decided it is going to “bell the cat” over the issue of streaming royalties. First a little background is in order for those not familiar with … Continue reading →

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Storing copyrighted content in The Cloud

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Today was Aereo day at the Supreme Court. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/abc-v-aereo-will-the-supreme-court-change-the-way-we-watch-tv/ In case you’re not familiar with it, the Aereo technology places a tiny TV antenna within a local TV market. Since that tiny antenna is technically receiving the TV signal “over … Continue reading →

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Difference between a Podcast and an Archive

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Fred Stiening

I’ve written about this before, but since I’m going to start paying more attention to this, here we go again since a lot of people in radio either don’t get the difference or don’t care. A “Podcast” is a feed … Continue reading →

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Americans spend 11 hours/day interacting with digital media

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Fred Stiening

http://mashable.com/2014/03/05/american-digital-media-hours/ Half of that is watching TV, a bit under three hours listening to radio It’s probably worth noting that people often do more than one at the same time, like listening to radio while reading email

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Kaliki is here – move over iHeartRadio

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The new Rusty Humphries daily news show from the Washington Times will be distributed by Kaliki, an app that is already being built into new GM and Ford vehicles. When your car is connected to the Internet directly and can … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Streaming, Radio Biz, Talk Radio Network | 5 Comments

FCC wants Internet fairness

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Fred Stiening

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/fcc-plans-to-allow-online-discrimination-20140219 The Federal courts have repeatedly told the FCC it has no legal authority to create “net neutrality”, but the new FCC chairman is at it again. With the courts pretty solidly in the hands of progressives, a pretty successful … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Internet Insecurity, Mobile Streaming, Radio Biz, The FCC | 15 Comments

Microsoft’ s to do list

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Microsoft’s new CEO is an immigrant from India who most recently was involved in leading the effort to switch the corporate business model for Office from buying software to renting it. Real Clear politics asks where will the company go … Continue reading →

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AOL Dumps Winamp and Shoutcast

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Back in the day, when AOL was buying up Netscape and everything Internet related to battle Mucrosoft, Shoutcast was one of their acquisitions, much to the dismay of the people who worked there. After initially losing the key people responsible … Continue reading →

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77% of people who stream…

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Fred Stiening

This was a factoid from a few days ago – 77% of Internet streaming is now going through cell phones. Tablets are another 15% or so. PC streaming is now in the single digits. Listening at work using the company … Continue reading →

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