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Radio Meets The PC, Again
June 28, 2005
Arik Hesseldahl from Forbes nails the real value behind RadioTime-the guide. Content, no matter what kind (am/fm radio, streaming radio, or podcasts) is useless if no one can find it:
Full Article »I'm becoming a bit of a connoisseur of computer programs that allow you to record radio programming onto your computer. One of the newest and most useful is from RadioTime, whose subscription service, also called RadioTime, helps listeners track, find, discover and record programs.
If you've used programs such as Radio Hijack or Radio Lover on Mac computers, or perhaps tried AudioFeast on the PC, you've come to understand the basic drill: record streaming audio from the Internet on a schedule similar to what TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people ) does with your TV. Move the file of the recording to your favorite audio program, sync it with your favorite portable player, and you can hear the program at the time and place of your choosing.
RadioTime does all that, but it adds one important component that most of the others are missing: a detailed schedule and the ability to work with an over-the-air radio tuner if you have one.The result is an intriguing mix for radio junkies.
Web Cast (real player)
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IBD Network Announces The Under The Radar Innovation Award Winners
June 27, 2005
DALLAS, June 27, 2005 The International Business Development Network (IBDNetwork), has published the winners of the Under the Radar | Consumer Technologies Innovation awards and Audience Choice awards. The winners were announced at the close of the one-day Under the Radar event, which was held in Mountain View on May 31, 2005. The event showcased over 32 innovative companies in four consumer technology sectors: search, mobile applications, social software & tools, and home & entertainment. Each company presented to a panel of VC judges, audience members, and industry experts for the opportunity to be named one of the companies most likely to succeed.
- RadioTime
- PureDepth
- Wondir
- Medio Systems
- UpSnap
- GoTV Networks
- Peer Flix
- PubSub
“The Under the Radar Innovation Award winners represent some of consumer technology’s most exciting and promising companies,” said Alison Murdock, co-founder and president of IBDNetwork. “The winners, most of whom have received less than two rounds of funding, had five minutes to show their potential for success based on their breakthrough technology solutions, market opportunities, and ability to articulate clear and compelling value propositions. The winners were selected by the audience and a panel of VC judges. We wish the winners the best of luck and look forward to tracking their progress in the future.”
Under the Radar was sponsored by Acteva, Comerica Bank, Intel Capital, LEWIS PR, Perkins Coie, and UK Trade & Investment. The event was hosted by Microsoft.
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New Service Changes the Way People Listen to Radio
RadioTime lets people find and record any radio show and then listen at a time and place of their choosing.
DALLAS/Monday, June 27, 2005 RadioTime announced today a new service that changes how people listen to radio. With it, listeners can quickly locate radio programming through a comprehensive guide to 50,000 shows airing on 36,000 radio stations around the world. Once located, users can listen to their favorite programs live, or tag them for recording. They can then listen to their recorded programs on any consumer device – such as an Apple iPodtm – at a time and place of their choosing.
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This Is Not Your Father's FM Radio
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Eliot Van Buskirk of MP3.com writes:
Full Article »Old-school radio meets new-school technology, as an upstart service devises ingenious ways to put radio onto your MP3 player and Nokia offers a sneak peek at its next-generation N91 phone (which includes a 4GB hard drive for music, no less).
All we need now is a good, smart way to put radio onto an MP3 player. Several players on our Top MP3 Player lists have FM tuners, but most have less-than-perfect reception (due in part to interference from spinning hard drives). And, of course, the near-ubiquitous iPod line lacks FM completely. (Griffin Technology had planned on selling an FM tuner attachment for the iPod but scuttled its plans due to some new issue with the 3G iPods. I'm thinking that the problem was related to the spinning hard drive somehow.)
A service called RadioTime could be the perfect answer for adding talk radio to the iPod, or to any other player that supports MP3s. It's like TiVo for radio, except better. TiVo can only capture broadcast video, while RadioTime lets you search and record both broadcast and online audio. In fact, users of the service don't need to distinguish between online and terrestrial radio, because they both get recorded via the same easy-to-use interface.
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RadioTime.com Hopes To Do For Radio What TiVo Did For TV
June 20, 2005
Adam Balkin from NY1 News highlights RadioTime:
Full Article »Can a new website do for radio what TiVo and digital video recorders did for TV?
“It consolidates radio programming from all around the globe - music and talk - and makes it very easy to find, and then listen to it when you like and where you like,” says Bill Moore of RadioTime.com.
RadioTime.com is, at the free level, very basically a worldwide radio listing similar to a TV guide. The $40 yearly fee, though, allows you to record webcasted shows and move them to a digital music player.
Web Cast (dial-up, real player)
Web Cast (broadband, real player)
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Radio Shows on Demand, With a TiVo-Like Recorder
June 16, 2005
New York Time's Ian Austen writes: "RadioTime offers radio listeners a variation of what TiVo recorders give television viewers..." Full Article »
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National Association of Broadcasters Reviews RadioTime
June 15, 2005
Some new PC-based tools, the “radio SHARK” from Griffin Technology (www.griffintechnology.com), and
“RadioTime” (http://radiotime.com) combine a web-based guide of radio programs and stations with
software to listen live and/or record AM, FM and Internet radio. Both of these products allow listeners to
record local radio programs and convert them to an MP3 format for use on a portable MP3 player..
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