Radio Archives

NPR shows available as Spotify Podcasts

16/12/2020

NPR shows available as Spotify Podcasts giving worldwide listeners the opportunity to connect with NPR’s daily source of wisdom and entertainment previously available only to Americans. Every day, millions connect with NPR and NPR Member stations across the US for everything from pop culture podcasts to the nightly news. In 2018 Spotify announced that US fans of NPR would also be able to stream select NPR shows on Spotify, making NPR’s offerings available in one convenient place. […]

Magic Radio

30/11/2020

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, […]

Radio Cumbernauld

28/11/2020

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

14/11/2020

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

25/10/2020

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

19/09/2020

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

11/09/2020

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 […]