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Magic Radio

Magic Radio is a French internet radio station that is broadcasting ‘Oldies Hits 24 hours a day’. In addition to a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream it provides 192kbps MP3, 64kbps AAC streams, a TuneIn web player and iOS and Android apps. According to Loïc, the station’s creator, Magic Radio has been broadcasting since 2002 ‘mainly titles of the Eighties but also sometimes of other decades.’ The station is his personal non-profit project and he says, […]

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Radio Cumbernauld

Radio Cumbernauld is a pop music internet radio station broadcasting which used to broadcast a CD Quality Lossless FLAC and a 192kbps MP3 stream. The lossless stream has now been downgraded to a 64kbps AAC stream and the site now no longer offers an Android app. According to the station they are “Cumbernauld, Scotland’s official radio station”. The station was established in 1987 by then school boy Jason Dolan and is based 13 miles from […]

Sonos Radio adds CD Quality stations
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Sonos Radio adds CD Quality stations

Sonos Radio adds CD Quality stations to its Sonos Radio offering and rolls it out to five more countries. The new service called Sonos Radio HD streams ad-free with skips and repeats and is available now on the Sonos’ S2 app in the US and UK with additional countries to follow. Sonos owners can subscribe on sonos.com for $7.99/£7.99 per month after a free, one month trial. Both Sonos Radio and Sonos Radio HD are provided by […]

Pandora continues to lose listeners
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Pandora continues to lose listeners

Pandora continues to lose listeners with monthly active users (MAU) down 7% from a year ago according to the latest Q3 2020 financial results from parent company SiriusXM. MAUs were 58.6 million in the third quarter, down from 63.1 million in the prior year period. Total ad supported listener hours also declined from 3.12 billion in the period, down from 3.32 billion in the third quarter of 2019. Pandora added 105,000 net new self-pay subscribers […]

BBC to launch Radio 1 Dance stream
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BBC to launch Radio 1 Dance stream

BBC to launch Radio 1 Dance stream which will be available from 9th October on BBC Sounds. Radio 1 Dance will bring together Radio 1’s existing dance programmes into a dedicated 24-hour stream on BBC Sounds providing a second chance to hear the station’s world-famous DJs and mixes from all corners of the globe. From Monday – Thursday on Radio 1 Dance, Pete Tong’s world-renowned Radio 1 show will fill the Drivetime slot (4pm-6pm), with exclusive […]

Radio listening grew 33% in Ireland during the pandemic
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Radio listening grew 33% in Ireland during the pandemic

Radio listening grew 33% in Ireland during the pandemic with Smart speaker and Connected TV listening increasing over 60% after lockdown according to consultants Core Research. One third of people in Ireland have trialled a new way to listen to audio including music streaming, digital radio or podcasts since March 2020. The research looked at the evolution of music, radio and audio consumption, brought about as a result of people spending more time at home […]

SoundCloud launches Australian radio channel
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SoundCloud launches Australian radio channel

SoundCloud launches Australian radio channel in a partnership with SCA to launch on web and DAB+ from the 24th August. SoundCloud Radio is SCA’s first and only station dedicated to music discovery, curated by the experts at SoundCloud. SoundCloud Radio will give you a front-row seat to only the newest drops happening on SoundCloud so you can get to know the artists who should be on your radar right now. And with the ability to […]