CBS Interactive Music Group Announces Radio.com App for iPad
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Posted on April 2, 2010 at 8:49:01 AM
CBS Interactive Music Group Announces Radio.com App for iPad
New App Delivers Audio and Visual Access To More Than 600 Music, News and Sports Radio Stations Complemented By Insightful Data and Information From Last.fm
NEW YORK, April 2 -- CBS Interactive Music Group today announced the Radio.com App for iPad is now available on the App Store. The app was created exclusively for iPad to make it easier than ever for music, sports and news fans to immerse themselves in their mobile media experience while navigating through and engaging with an expansive array of high quality content.
The Radio.com App for iPad is the ultimate online destination for radio listening. The app brings together best-in-class programming from CBS RADIO and its streaming partners, including Yahoo! Music, among others, with Last.fm's proprietary scrobbling technology, artist pages, photo galleries, charts, and event listings backed by a community topping more than 40 million monthly users. Users will be able to intimately interact with in excess of 550 professionally programmed music stations and at least three dozen news, talk and sports stations from across the nation.
Utilizing iPad's Multi-Touch interface, the Radio.com App provides access to CBS RADIO's over the air, HD multicast and digital only stations, along with more than 400 stations from leading online radio providers, including 150 plus from Yahoo! Music. Key features of the application include:
-- The ability to read the latest news and editorials on a favorite
artist; follow local, national and breaking news, and get updates on
the latest scores and highlights from all the major sports teams and
events;
-- Once registered with Radio.com, users can scrobble music listening to
a Last.fm profile to enable personalized music recommendations and
allow friends to see what's being listening to. To date, Last.fm has
scrobbled almost 40 billion pieces of music currently coming in at
peaks of 800 scrobbles per second;
-- Users can view contextual content via Last.fm, including millions of
artist pages and event listings, and photos that can be viewed as a
slide show when the iPad is turned on its side;
-- A multi-media functionality that gives users the ability to follow
Twitter feeds, watch original videos created by CBS RADIO stations,
and listen to podcasts.
Additionally, the app gives users the choice to search stations by location or genre, or visit any one of their 20 preset "favorites," as well as toggle seamlessly between stations. Among the diverse lineup of choices are some of the most listened to stations of their kind including KROQ (alternative rock) in Los Angeles, WXRT (Triple AAA) and WUSN (country) in Chicago, WCBS-FM (classic hits) in New York, and WVEE (urban) in Atlanta, coupled with radio's leading authorities on sports and news, such as WFAN and 1010 WINS in New York, respectively.
Since July 2008, apps powered by the CBS Interactive Music Group have been downloaded on the iPhone or iPod touch nearly 11 million times providing users with free mobile access to hundreds of professionally programmed stations, and the ability to discover new music, stream unlimited tracks, and create personalized stations based on individual music preference.
About CBS Interactive Music Group
The CBS Interactive Music Group was formed in May 2009 combining CBS RADIO's digital music assets and Last.fm, the leading music discovery destination, to give users more content and community around their favorite music. With one of the world's largest online music audiences, the CBS Interactive Music Group reaches more than 45 million unique users across its sites, streams, and mobile applications.
About CBS RADIO
CBS RADIO, one of the largest major-market operators in the United States with stations covering news, sports, talk, rock, oldies, country, adult contemporary and urban formats, among others, offers audiences an enhanced and customized listening experience through the combination of on-air, online and new media platforms. Home to the nation's most listened to news (1010 WINS), sports (WFAN-AM), rock (KROQ-FM) and country (WUSN-FM) stations, CBS RADIO operates 130 radio stations throughout the nation's top 50 markets and broadcasts play by play coverage of more than two dozen of the country's leading professional sports franchises. CBS RADIO is a division of CBS Corporation. For more information on CBS RADIO, please visit http://www.cbsradio.com.
Source: CBS Interactive Music Group
CONTACT: Karen L. Mateo, CBS RADIO, +1-212-649-9639,
karen.mateo@cbsradio.com, or Allison Mandara, CBS RADIO, +1-212-649-9609,
allison.mandara@cbsradio.com
Web Site: http://www.cbsradio.com/
New App Delivers Audio and Visual Access To More Than 600 Music, News and Sports Radio Stations Complemented By Insightful Data and Information From Last.fm
NEW YORK, April 2 -- CBS Interactive Music Group today announced the Radio.com App for iPad is now available on the App Store. The app was created exclusively for iPad to make it easier than ever for music, sports and news fans to immerse themselves in their mobile media experience while navigating through and engaging with an expansive array of high quality content.
The Radio.com App for iPad is the ultimate online destination for radio listening. The app brings together best-in-class programming from CBS RADIO and its streaming partners, including Yahoo! Music, among others, with Last.fm's proprietary scrobbling technology, artist pages, photo galleries, charts, and event listings backed by a community topping more than 40 million monthly users. Users will be able to intimately interact with in excess of 550 professionally programmed music stations and at least three dozen news, talk and sports stations from across the nation.
Utilizing iPad's Multi-Touch interface, the Radio.com App provides access to CBS RADIO's over the air, HD multicast and digital only stations, along with more than 400 stations from leading online radio providers, including 150 plus from Yahoo! Music. Key features of the application include:
-- The ability to read the latest news and editorials on a favorite
artist; follow local, national and breaking news, and get updates on
the latest scores and highlights from all the major sports teams and
events;
-- Once registered with Radio.com, users can scrobble music listening to
a Last.fm profile to enable personalized music recommendations and
allow friends to see what's being listening to. To date, Last.fm has
scrobbled almost 40 billion pieces of music currently coming in at
peaks of 800 scrobbles per second;
-- Users can view contextual content via Last.fm, including millions of
artist pages and event listings, and photos that can be viewed as a
slide show when the iPad is turned on its side;
-- A multi-media functionality that gives users the ability to follow
Twitter feeds, watch original videos created by CBS RADIO stations,
and listen to podcasts.
Additionally, the app gives users the choice to search stations by location or genre, or visit any one of their 20 preset "favorites," as well as toggle seamlessly between stations. Among the diverse lineup of choices are some of the most listened to stations of their kind including KROQ (alternative rock) in Los Angeles, WXRT (Triple AAA) and WUSN (country) in Chicago, WCBS-FM (classic hits) in New York, and WVEE (urban) in Atlanta, coupled with radio's leading authorities on sports and news, such as WFAN and 1010 WINS in New York, respectively.
Since July 2008, apps powered by the CBS Interactive Music Group have been downloaded on the iPhone or iPod touch nearly 11 million times providing users with free mobile access to hundreds of professionally programmed stations, and the ability to discover new music, stream unlimited tracks, and create personalized stations based on individual music preference.
About CBS Interactive Music Group
The CBS Interactive Music Group was formed in May 2009 combining CBS RADIO's digital music assets and Last.fm, the leading music discovery destination, to give users more content and community around their favorite music. With one of the world's largest online music audiences, the CBS Interactive Music Group reaches more than 45 million unique users across its sites, streams, and mobile applications.
About CBS RADIO
CBS RADIO, one of the largest major-market operators in the United States with stations covering news, sports, talk, rock, oldies, country, adult contemporary and urban formats, among others, offers audiences an enhanced and customized listening experience through the combination of on-air, online and new media platforms. Home to the nation's most listened to news (1010 WINS), sports (WFAN-AM), rock (KROQ-FM) and country (WUSN-FM) stations, CBS RADIO operates 130 radio stations throughout the nation's top 50 markets and broadcasts play by play coverage of more than two dozen of the country's leading professional sports franchises. CBS RADIO is a division of CBS Corporation. For more information on CBS RADIO, please visit http://www.cbsradio.com.
Source: CBS Interactive Music Group
CONTACT: Karen L. Mateo, CBS RADIO, +1-212-649-9639,
karen.mateo@cbsradio.com, or Allison Mandara, CBS RADIO, +1-212-649-9609,
allison.mandara@cbsradio.com
Web Site: http://www.cbsradio.com/