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.<\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading