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Roku adds Pandora, MediaFly and Blip.tv

Study: Internet Radio To Boost Networked Multi-Room Audio

twice.com

Clearwire shares up 5 percent on new financing

reuters

Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries

wired.com

DAB (HD radio in europe) radio faces threat from satellite rival

telegraph.com.uk

Local Community Radio Act moves to Senate

From Radio Magazine:

The Local Community Radio Act (S.592) was passed unanimously in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation with a voice vote. Both the Senate and House versions of the bill are on their way to full floor votes. The act seeks to repeal restrictions placed on low-power FM stations in 2000.

A press release from the Prometheus Project, a group that supports the efforts of low-power radio stations, cited the importance of allowing more low-power radio stations to operate because of their usefulness in times of emergency. While it's a valid point that low-power stations can serve a need to provide public information from a small setup operating on a portable generator, that is not the regular application of LPFM services.

Cory Fischer-Hoffman, Campaign Director for the Prometheus Radio Project said that disasters are not the only time when the public lacks access to local news. Prometheus also notes that LPFM would provide another source of local programming specific to neighborhoods and towns.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX), the ranking Republican on the Senate Committee, also noted the potential of low-power radio in changing the face of media ownership. The Local Community Radio Act is co-sponsored in the Senate by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and John McCain (R-AZ). While this Senate legislation has passed out of committee in the previous two sessions, this year marks the first time that the House version passed through the House Subcommittee and Committee.

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Pocket Internet Radio +FM (no smart phone required)

wirelessgoodness

Study: Radio still has broadest reach

cnet

Independent internet radio is catching on

rbr

Clearwire broadband service goes live in Chicago

chicagotribune

Smartphones To Outsell standard phones by 2012

dailywireless

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FM and the internet enter a golden age

guardian.co.uk

CBS To Extend Four Radio Brands Beyond Local Markets

billboard

FCC Considers Auctioning Off TV Frequencies

dailywireless

XM's Skydock goes on sale

radioink

FM Continues Growth in Arab World

radioworld