Tag: RADIO

At this point, free Internet radio stations abound, but one of our perennial favorites has been Pandora.com. (Go on and sign up; you'll see.) Based on an admirably well researched database called The Music Genome Project, Pandora automatically generates a customizable playlist based on whatever song or artist you choose, explaining exactly why each song has been selected in remarkably musical ...

In a move that goes against the grain, Last.fm will become more than just a Web property by expanding to the radio airwaves. Starting in four markets (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco), Last.fm will broadcast on CBS HD radio stations. According to paidContent, the broadcasts, set to begin October 5th, will feature music pulled from the online service's user-generated charts. In ...

While putting a call in to the International Space Station and chatting up an astronaut for a full ten minutes would likely be more than enough to satisfy most science classes, a group of students from Humber College in Toronto decided to go one big step further and do so with a radio system that they designed and built themselves. According to the school, that makes it the first time that's ever ...

We learned during this last election cycle that the Internet had become a powerful source for news and information, and the latest poll out of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press just confirms that Internet is the media source to be reckoned with in the 21st century. While TV still tops the list of news sources in this country with 70-percent saying they get "most" of their ...

When HD Radio hit the scene two years ago, it was supposed to revolutionize radio in the same way that HDTV revolutionized television. Despite a new wave of affordable players, supposed 'cd-quality' sound, and a wealth of unique programming, HD Radio just isn't attracting the audience that broadcasters would hope. After two years, only about half a million HD-Radio-capable receivers are in ...

Following a year of review, the U.S. Department of Justice just announced that it will allow the merger of XM and Sirius, the two leading U.S. satellite radio providers. Interestingly, the Department of Justice does not see the merger as anti-competitive. Engadget explains: The deciding factor appeared to be the proprietary hardware needed to receive both XM and Sirius; since consumers who shell ...

Conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat, we all know the frustration of computer bugs and unanswered pleas for tech support. Case in point: conservative radio talk personality Rush Limbaugh made a public plea to Apple CEO (and Democrat) Steve Jobs on his broadcast last week for help with a problem he's encountered with his collection of networked, high-end Mac Pro computers. "El Rushbo" ...

If you've turned on the Discovery Channel at all in the last year you might have noticed that survival is quite the draw. The popularity of shows like 'Survivor Man' and 'Man Vs. Wild' is not only drawing viewers to Discover, though, it's also helping draw attention to an entire cottage industry of gear designed to help you avoid the very situations (read: deadly ones) we love to watch Bear ...

This week, XM announced its first ever radio with a color screen, the XpressRC. The unit, to be manufactured by Delphi, features a split-screen with one half showing the song that is currently playing and the other half showing what's playing on up to three other channels. In addition, the receiver allows you to pause for up to an hour and pick back up where you left off, which doubles the pause ...

Starting today, eBay is accepting bids for dead air. Through a partnership with Bid4Spots of Encino, California, the world's leading auction site now lets advertisers vie for unsold radio inventory from 2,300 stations in the top 300 U.S. markets. This comes on the heels of April's news that Google's had struck a deal to sell ads with Clear Channel, the country's biggest operator of radio ...