The owner of Emmis Radio has long asserted that most portable devices have always had the ability to receive FM radio broadcasts and the people selling them deliberately chose to not use the capability.
In the case of Apple, the motive is clear. Apple makes a ton of money from selling iTunes music. Steve Jobs had the clout to turn the entire music business on its head – breaking apart the traditional model that people heard music on the radio, then went to the mall and bought the album. Now people hear music on Pandora, Last.fm, slacker, Spotify, YouTube…
Yesterday, so-called hackers finally were able to “jailbreak” iOS 6.1 and the iPhone 5 – and what did they find? Icons and other evidence that iOS 6.1 added operating system support for “radio” – is that streaming radio or FM? We’ll probably know soon.
Emmis just cut a deal with Sprint to do an advertising revenue share with Sprint to load the Emmis radio app on their cell phones. IHeartRadio has a similar deal with Ford. Get out the checkbook and people start to listen.
Sickening. Just sickening that Capitalism is still running amuck in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Where’s POTUS at these days to stomp this down into the ground?
Out in Minnesota having dinner with Senator Al Franken
A true meeting of the minds. Insidious Buffoonery….
I don’t have any issue with Big Radio cutting deals with electronics companies to build radio into products and let the marketplace work out what people want. I just don’t want the NAB using the FCC to mandate compulsory requirements using the “national security” rationale.
It was way less technologically advanced than a smartphone I had a Microsoft Zune mp3 player I picked it for the fm radio capabilities.
I’ve got an amazing device that fits in my pocket and can receive both AM and FM broadcasts. It’s a transistor radio. It’s quite technologically advanced…for 1964.
When will these fools stop trying to reinvent the wheel? That HD radio thing went well, didn’t it?
Maybe one of the two Al’s can pony up: Al Jazeera or Al “Ja” Gore.
Too funny!
Al “Ja” Gore, what’s in a name?
Since Al Gore Sr made the family fortune from Occidental Petroleum, the CurrenTV being shocked that they have been sol to the Emir of Qatar is amusing in a sad way. If they weren’t blinded by their own political fervor, you don’t have to be paying much attention that Al Gore is not very bright and knows nothing about science beyond the PowerPoint slides someone gave him to read.
Yes, once we understand that when a person becomes blinded by their own political fervor then everything else they do becomes elementary. Al Gore Sr made his fortune trading on ‘insider knowledge’, but then US Senators are immune from prosecution when trading on ‘insider knowledge’.
With insider “knowledge”, making a fortune is as simple as al-ja-bra :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA