Tag archive: Tim Westergren

After all of last year’s rhetoric about the death of Web radio due to a music industry rate hike, it looks some of those predictions are close to becoming reality. According to an article in The Washington Post, the popular Web radio property Pandora is close to shuttering its doors when the much-discussed royalty changes finally go into effect. “We're approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision,” Pandora founder… Read More

Pandora misses Europe. The online music service has to close off its operations outside the US earlier in 2008 after it couldn’t reach an agreement on royalty rates with two major labels, but it still hopes things can be resolved and it can be heard in the old countries. The company is hoping that a deal with US labels could set a precedent to make that possible, although company head Tim Westergren told Vnunet that he finds the… Read More