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The business of radio has been in some turmoil even before the economic downturn of 2008-2009. There’s a lot of consolidation, competition, and less advertising to go around. Add in satellite radio and internet radio to the mix with earthbound stations and the pie seems to be getting cut up into more pieces. The Radio industry will have to look to new technologies and innovation to get healthy again. iPhone applications are one of these new innovations to watch for.
Radio is moving in a new direction with streaming audio on iPhone apps. The mother of all radio iPhone apps would be Clear Channel’s “I Heart Radio” application, which feeds off of Clear Channel’s “I Heart Radio online streaming website of 750+ radio stations. Last count showed 150+ stations streaming via I Heart Radio on the iPhone. But streaming individual stations on a giant aggregator app like this can sometimes be slow with lengthy buffering times.
Another option is for a radio station, either land based or online or satellite to have its own dedicated iphone app. Why be one of hundreds or thousands of radio stations on someone else’s app when you can have your own custom Streaming Radio iPhone app with its own icon on your listener’s iPhone screen? Your radio station gets one step closer to your audience, and your listeners have direct icon access to your streaming broadcast! Add advertising to your Radio Station iPhone app for increased revenue and social networking features to build your listener community. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: January 22nd, 2010
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iPhone Apps for Radio Stations
The business of radio has been in some turmoil even before the economic downturn of 2008-2009. There’s a lot of consolidation, competition, and less advertising to go around. Add in satellite radio and internet radio to the mix with earthbound stations and the pie seems to be getting cut up into more pieces. The Radio industry will have to look to new technologies and innovation to get healthy again. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: January 22nd, 2010
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waves. His work was largely misunderstood so it wasn’t until about three decades later that the first radio’s were developed.
Even to this day there is considerable debate as to who actually invented radio. Guglielmo Marconi is generally credited with radio’s invention although in 1933 a US supreme court decision revoked Marconi’s patents in favor of Nikola Tesla. Despite this there is no doubt that Marconi achieved a number of milestones in the development of radio including the first trans Atlantic radio message.
The German physicist Heinrich Hertz could also be credited with radio’s invention and was the first to actually demonstrate the existence of radio waves in 1893. Around about two years later Marconi unveiled a practical radiotelegraph setting in motion a revolution that led to radio, radar, television, mobile phones and many other icons of our technological age.
Early radio transmitters were rudimentary devices that created a spark between two small metal spheres one of which was connected to a length of wire called an antenna. Looking at the illustration we can follow the sequence of events.
A telegraphers switch briefly supplies current to the primary windings of a transformer. The sudden surge in voltage is multiplied in the transformers secondary winding causing a strong spark to jump between two closely mounted metal spheres. A long piece of wire called an antenna would then pulse with electric charge and in doing so emmit radio waves.
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Posted: October 22nd, 2009
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