AOL Radio: Now with CBS

Posted Jun 10th 2008 4:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Audio, Internet, AOL

AOL has relaunched AOL Radio, with live streams from 140 CBS-owned radio stations from around the country in addition to hundreds of web-only channels. That includes a handful of talk radio stations and dozens of music stations. But more importantly, the CBS deal could help AOL bring in local advertising deals, which could be a vital component in making AOL Radio profitable.

The New York Times reports that Arbitron rating show that AOL Radio has a larger weekly audience than any other web radio service. But the cost of providing the bandwidth for radio streams and paying royalties for the rights to stream the music is high, and the company has yet to turn a profit from its online radio efforts.

The deal with CBS replaces a similar partnership AOL had with XM Satellite Radio.

The new AOL Radio Player also features support for Safari, preset buttons and support for pausing radio streams and skipping some songs.

Tags: aol-radio, cbs, internet-radio, online-radio, radio

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7-07-2008 @ 5:40PM

EvangSWashington said...

I perfer the xp saullite radio

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