Internet Radio Will Soon Sound More Like... Regular Radio
from the here-come-the-ads dept
If you thought one of the nice things about internet radio was that you didn't have to sit through ads, we've got some bad news for you. It turns out that a bunch of online radio stations, including those from AOL, Yahoo and Live365, have teamed up in order to sell traditional-style radio advertising across all the stations. Since they've been having trouble selling regular radio ads, by teaming together (behind a company named Ronning Lipset Radio) they're hoping the combined audience can entice advertisers to give internet radio a shot. AOL and Yahoo both claim that the amount of advertising will be far less than what's found on traditional radio - but you can almost hear the silent "for now" added to the end of that sentence. In the meantime, satellite radio stations are still making a go of it without any advertising at all...Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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satellite radio advertising
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Re: satellite radio advertising
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Just use Shoutcast
Well, most shoutcast stations don't have commercials. And if they do and you don't want to listen, just use StationRipper.
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Re: Just use Shoutcast
I often listen to Digitially Imported (di.fm)
100% ad free... very popular
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Commercials free commercial radio...
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No Subject Given
Big-boy webcasts that used canned ads only increase the little non-commercial webcast potential audience. Thanks AOL, Yahoo and Dead365!
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