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AOL Radio
AOL Radio
AOL Radio Screenshot The main player window. Developer(s) Initial release Operating system Type Website AOL LLC 2008 Mac OS X, Windows, iPhone, Linux Internet Radio player, Broadcasting - Radio AOL Radio
AOL Radio powered by CBS Radio, (formerly AOL Radio featuring XM), is an online radio service.
to encourage users to become AOL Members.[6] On 28 November 2007, AOL announced that they may shut down their web radio services after a 38 percent increase in royalties to air music. Yahoo! and AOL discontinued directing users to their radio sites after SoundExchange, the non-profit performance rights organization that collects royalties on the behalf of sound recording copyright owners (SRCOs) and featured artists for non-interactive digital transmissions, began collecting the higher fees in July.[7] On April 30, 2008, XM and AOL Radio ended their partnership due to the change in Internet royalty rates [8]. On June 10, 2008, a new AOL Radio player debuted with 150 streaming CBS Radio stations.
History
AOL Radio can trace its roots to two companies it acquired on June 1, 1999, for $400 million: Spinner.com and Nullsoft.[1] Spinner.com was formerly known as TheDJ.com. Nullsoft was the maker of the popular Winamp and SHOUTcast products. Both new organizations operated out of the same office in San Francisco. The Spinner.com brand was retired in July 2003, but exists today as an AOL Music blog and a series of channels on AOL Radio. AOL Radio launched as Radio@AOL, essentially a re-branded Spinner.com, using technology from Real Networks on October 16, 2001 as part of the AOL 7.0 software announced that same day.[2] In its first month of operation, AOL reported that 2.2 million members accessed Radio@AOL, making it one of AOL’s most popular features.[3] Initially, Radio@AOL was available only to AOL Members. On May 22, 2002, AOL released the free Radio@Netscape for nonmembers[4] as part of the new Netscape 7.0 browser. On August 22, 2002, AOL released Radio@Netscape Plus.[5] Beginning in 2004, AOL started metering Radio@Netscape to allow only two hours of usage per day. AOL did this to avoid paying copyright royalties and
Marketing
On November 18, 2002, AOL introduced Broadband Radio@AOL.[9] Broadband Radio@AOL was built into the AOL 8.0 software, and was the first AOL Radio offering based on the AOL streaming technology Ultravox. By 2003, AOL had migrated most of its AOL Radio products to Ultravox.[10] It was released in the UK on October 20, 2003.[11] On April 11, 2005, AOL and XM Satellite Radio joined together to create Radio@AOL featuring XM.[12] At the same time, AOL consolidated Radio@AOL and Radio@Netscape as "Radio@AOL featuring XM." This service was available to AOL members and non-members alike, with twenty XM channels offered (fifty more XM channels require a paying AOL subscription). Later in 2005, AOL changed the name of Radio@AOL to AOL Radio to align itself with the AOL Music branding. In July 2005, a web version of AOL Radio was introduced for non-members with unlimited listening. At the end of 2005, Radio@Netscape was officially retired, with AOL Radio being the official brand. On April 30 2008, AOL and XM Satellite Radio announced the end of their partnership[13] and the beginning of the new partnership between AOL and CBS Radio. The partnership between AOL and CBS Radio
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would give AOL access to over 150 of CBS Radio’s terrestrial stations. On June 10, 2008 the AOL CBS player for AIM was released. On June 11, 2008, the new AOL CBS Radio player for the web was released.
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See also
• Live365 • LAUNCHcast • SHOUTcast
Technology
AOL Radio powered by CBS Radio is supported on Adobe Flash 9 and is compatible with web browsers that support Flash 9 on Windows 2000 through Windows Vista and Mac OS X. Listeners can connect to AOL Radio through the web, AOL Client, and AOL Radio for Mac. On July 10th, 2008 AOL released a client for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch via the App Store offering mobile streaming of all stations though WiFi, EDGE and 3G cellular connections. AOL Radio is now also available through the AOL Instant Messenger service, and Winamp.
External links
• AOL Online Radio Guide • AOL Radio Blog
References
Limits
• Skips are limited. After skips expire, they will be disabled for an hour. Unused skipps do not carry over. • Commercial interruptions, which cannot be avoided in any way. Some ads will disable all buttons. Some ads can be skipped, but they will count toward the hourly skips. Other ads can be "skipped" by changing the channel and swtiching back. • There is no rewind, fast-forward, or playback. • Local radio stations are limited • There is no play-on-demand service • No direct channel customization, though rating influences the songs played. • A limit on songs played on each station • Songs cannot be banned entirely, though giving them a 1-star rating will have them played very rarely. • Banner ads, which cannot be blocked.
Notable DJs / Mixers / Personalities
• DJ AM[14]
[1] http://www.timewarner.com/corp/ newsroom/pr/0,20812,666492,00.html Nullsoft and Spinner acquisition announcement [2] http://www.timewarner.com/corp/ newsroom/pr/ 0,20812,669020,00.html]AOL Radio Announcement [3] http://www.timewarner.com/corp/ newsroom/pr/0,20812,669108,00.html AOL Radio Launch Announcement [4] http://www.timewarner.com/corp/ newsroom/pr/0,20812,669336,00.html Free AOL Radio Press Release [5] http://www.timewarner.com/corp/ newsroom/pr/0,20812,669435,00.html Radio@Netscape Plus announcement [6] http://www.theinquirer.net/ ?article=15639 AOL Metering Radio@Netscape article at The Inquirer [7] http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/ news?pid=20601103&sid=a0pKOrcpw6yE&refer=us Article concerning royalties issues [8] http://journals.aol.com/theradioblog/ aolradio/entries/2008/04/30/aol-radio-xm-update-430/1681 04-30-2008 AOL Radio announces end of partnership with XM [9] http://www.timewarner.com/corp/ newsroom/pr/0,20812,669580,00.html Broadband Radio@AOL Announcement [10] http://www.timewarner.com/corp/ newsroom/pr/0,20812,669962,00.html Ultravox Technology press release [11] http://www.timewarner.com/corp/ newsroom/pr/0,20812,670097,00.html UK Release Announcement [12] http://www.timewarner.com/corp/ newsroom/pr/0,20812,1047989,00.html Radio@AOL featuring AM Announcement [13] AOL Radio & XM Update: 4/30 [14] Adam "DJ Am" Goldstein - AOL Music
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