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The push for high-definition radio received a vote of confidence Tuesday when Sony unveiled the latest additions to its line of audio consumer electronics: a tabletop HD radio and an in-car audio adapter. “Sony is one of the first leading consumer electronics companies to offer quality HD radio-enabled devices,” said Steve Haber, senior vice president of marketing for Sony’s digital imaging and audio division. “We’re adding it to a long list of technologies that support digital music trends.”
Original post by Walaika Haskins and software by Elliott Back
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The recording industry appears to be changing its tune, now offering to defer hefty new royalty rates for smaller Internet radio stations that might otherwise be forced to tune out due to high costs. However, it doesn’t appear the proposed new price structure has won over any fans in the opposition’s corner. SoundExchange, the organization responsible for collecting and distributing royalties from Internet and satellite radio operations, proposed Tuesday to give those with annual revenues of $1.25 million or less a substantial break in fees.
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Original post by Tim Gray and software by Elliott Back
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Sprint Nextel has teamed with Pandora Media, a popular online music service, to deliver personalized streaming radio to its mobile phone users. Pandora is a free Internet-based radio service that lets people create stations based on their favorite artists and other songs it finds that match in style. The music service has attracted 6.9 million users since launching in November 2005 and was recently banned, along with a dozen other popular media Web sites, such as YouTube and MySpace, from the Defense Department’s computer system because of network bandwidth concerns.
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Original post by May Wong and software by Elliott Back
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XM Satellite Radio fully restored its service Tuesday, the company said, after outages affected an unknown number of subscribers for parts of two days. XM believed all service had been restored by early Tuesday afternoon, more than 24 hours after outages were first reported midday Monday. The company did not know how many of its 8 million subscribers experienced loss of service or problems with reception, it explained. The problem stemmed from the loading of a software update to “a critical component of the satellite broadcast system,” XM said.
Original post by Keith Regan and software by Elliott Back
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Nearly a century has passed since the first commercial radio broadcast went out over the airwaves. Aside from the invention of frequency modulation in the early 1930s and advances in recording and music playback devices, radio technology had remained much the same — that is, until the late 1990s, when iBiquity Digital developed HD radio, a hybrid system that sends out bundled digital and analog signals. If you have not heard of HD radio, you are not alone. In development for about 10 years, the new radio technology has flown beneath the public’s radar.
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Original post by Walaika Haskins and software by Elliott Back
