Tag archive: Clear Channel

Harmon Kardon has announced three new Guide+Play GPS models that expand the sizes and options available in the company's GPS line designed for the in-car navigation market. All the new units integrate navigation features with entertainment and multimedia, aiming to unclutter user's dashboards and provide a consist experience. The Harmon Kardon GPS-310 will offer both navigation and digital music player functions that can be… Read More

Webcaster's Royalty Rate Appeal Denied Hundreds of U.S.-based net radio station may go silent Monday, as an appeals court denies a motion to delay the onset of new, significantly higher royalty rates. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit has denied a motion to postpone the implementation of new music royalty rates to be levied on U.S.-based Webcasters and online radio stations. In a brief statement, the… Read More

The California company Media Rights Technologies announced today that it has sent cease-and-desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real Networks, and Apple, alleging the company's media player products—like Windows Media Player, QuickTime, iTunes, Real Player, and Flash—violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by (get this) failing to incorporate Media Rights' Technologies X1 SeCure Recording Control… Read More

XM Satellite Radio yesterday released details on an expanded channel line up which will push their total number of channels over 170. Some of these new channels are being added as a response to arecent arbitration settlement with XM investor Clear Channel Communications in which they were required to add Clear Channel advertising in May tochannels the radio broadcasting company programs.   Overall, XM said, they now have 69 commercial free… Read More

Nationwide radio station operator Clear Channel Radio's online unit today announced the unveiling of a beta service which features on demand music videos hosted on the company's radio stations' websites. These videos will be featured on 16 of its radio-station sites in five markets. Thousands of music videos from 40 labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and EMI Music will become available for viewing… Read More

In a report released today, the consumer research firm The Diffusion Group forecasts that demand for podcasts and various forms of time-shifted audio will grow from approximately 15 percent of the portable digital media player market in 2004 to 75 percent of the market by 2010, potentially representing 60 million users and an annual growth rate over 100 percent. While acknowledging the podcasting is currently experiencing fad-like… Read More

Podcasting is getting another supporter today, quite possibly the industries largest to-date, in the form of Apple iTunes. Version 4.9 of iTunes will not allow its users to subscribe to a directory of over 3,000 free Podcasts including Podcasts from big names like ABC News, Adam Curry, BBC, Clear Channel, The Dawn and Drew Show, Disney, ESPN, Newsweek and NPR member stations such as KCRW in Los Angeles and WGBH in Boston. iTunes… Read More

Radio giant Clear Channel Radio seems ready to fully embrace the podcast revolution as today they announced they were setting up multiple podcasts tied to various stations across their empire. This greater rollout is based on the successful podcast debut of WHTZ-FM Z100′s “Phone Tap

Digital audio formats, like satellite radio, online radio and podcasting — subscription-based programming that is pushed to MP3 players — are creating new business models and opportunities in radioand the music industry. According to “The Future Of Digital Audio,” a new report from Forrester Research, Inc. 20.1 million U.S. households will listen to satellite radio and 12.3 million U.S.households will use their MP3… Read More

According to “The Battle For The Digital Home,” a new report from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), while some industries are better positioned for success, all must focus on capturing andcontrolling new revenue streams through key cross-industry partnerships and acquisitions. Forrester's evaluation places each industry into one of three categories: leaders (cable, game, PC, and software industries); challengers… Read More