[Swprograms] Fwd: [uk-radio-listeners] UK radio expert warns: The Yanks are coming (via Internet radio)!

["Richard Cuff" <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Given the discussions our respective groups occasionally have
regarding Internet "radio", I found the following post interesting.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mike Terry <miketerry73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Subject: [uk-radio-listeners] UK radio expert warns: The Yanks are
coming (via Internet radio)!
To: DXLD <dxld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: uk radio listeners <uk-radio-listeners@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


RAIN
By Paul Maloney
December 8, 2008

A British radio industry expert warns that through Internet radio, U.S.
powerhouses like CBS and Clear Channel could come to dominate the commercial
radio market in the UK and beyond.

Grant Goddard, in a post to his Radio Blog at
http://grantgoddardradioblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/cbs-radio-takes-yahoo-launchcast-be.html
uses the news of the CBS takeover of Yahoo! LAUNCHcast streaming at
http://textpattern.kurthanson.com/articles/544/rain-123-yahoo-will-give-up-its-net-radio-service
to warn of an Internet "turf war," with CBS and Clear Channel battling to
"own the Internet streaming space."

Goddard warns that "it will eventually prove effective to extend their
businesses into other territories at low marginal cost. "Now there is
nothing (except music copyright agreements) that will be able to stop either
CBS Radio or Clear Channel from streaming their radio stations into every
home in the UK with broadband access," Goddard writes.

And since so many UK commercial stations have reduced or abandoned their
unique, local "talk" content in favor of cheaper-to-produce music
programming, he warns they'll soon be vulnerable to competition from U.S.
media companies (who don't have access to AM/FM radio in Britain), as
Internet-delivered radio gains dominance.

http://textpattern.kurthanson.com/


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Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA

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