In what Fred Jacobs calls the first radio-oriented trade conference in the motor city, several industries are intersecting this week to examine connected cars. Jacobs and his company, Jacobs Media, are hosting DASH, The Connected Car AudioTainment Conference. Top execs… Continue Reading
The connected car, built with a digital dashboard and Internet-delivered audio, is an increasingly vital touchstone for both broadcast radio and Internet radio. With that in mind, research and consulting firm Jacobs Media is hosting DASH: The Connected Car AudioTainment(™)… Continue Reading
Did you miss RAIN Summit Orlando, the premiere gathering of Internet radio professionals? Now you can catch up with the entire audio content of RSO panels, keynotes, and RAIN Internet Radio Awards, either via streaming or downloading. For web listening,… Continue Reading
Edison Research has released a new study of streaming audio adoption, indicating that over half of the American online population listens to Internet radio. The research package, titled “The New MainStream” (get it?) details survey results of 3,014 connected Americans… Continue Reading
We previously mentioned Edison Research’s “What’s Working at Work” study of radio and audio in the workplace. Edision president Larry Rosin presented the study at the Radio Show today in Orlando. The team last took a look at how employees… Continue Reading
It is an oft-repeated platitude that AM/FM will never be outcast from digitally empowered cars of the future. That might be true, given broadcast’s stalwart advantages of locality, simplicity, and ubiquity. Even accepting that premise, though, doesn’t address questions of… Continue Reading
ESPN Audio and Pandora were named dual winners of the “Best Overal Online Radio Service” in the 2012 RAIN Internet Radio Awards, announced today in Dallas. The awards, presented by a tuxedo-ed RAIN publisher Kurt Hanson, capped yesterday’s successful RAIN… Continue Reading
Companies like to time their announcements and new feature launches around industry events like the NAB/RAB Radio Show, Apple’s iTunes Radio launch, and so on. That’s made for a big of a back-up in reporting some of these developments. That’s… Continue Reading
Yesterday we pointed you to some of the coverage of Tuesday’s RAIN Summit Orlando event in publications like Tom Taylor Now and Inside Radio. We wanted to let you know that radio consultant Holland Cooke put together some nice summaries… Continue Reading
BY BRAD HILL Marketplace demand is growing for digital interactivity in the car. This trend has longer legs in the navigation/traffic category, but the headlines now are turning to the infotainment section of automobile control, driven largely by the penetration… Continue Reading
After we recover from the rush of yesterday’s successful RAIN Summit Orlando event (and today’s iTunes Radio launch), we’ll get cracking on our own coverage of the Summit. In the meantime, our colleagues at news sources like Tom Taylor Now,… Continue Reading
(from yesterday’s late edition, edited) Nothing like ending the day on an “up” note. For the fourth straight year, leading webcaster Pandora has been named the 2013 RAIN Internet Radio Best Overall Online Radio Service. The Awards were presented at… Continue Reading