Just Browsing

We’ve been heads-down trying to better understand radio browse behavior. As always, the goal is to make the path for find/listen simple.

The two charts show a top-level summary of what users click first from the current menu structure.

All Digital Home Adapter products

All Mobile Applications

This sample was a Friday, weekend use varies. We only [...]

Record Streaming Radio with Windows 7

Windows 7 is fast and beautiful, but it breaks radio recording utilities. Fortunately the current RedButton is fully compatible.

RedButton is a great TiVo for Radio desktop solution that ads pause and scheduled recording to RadioTime’s program guide. The desktop tuner and pause features are free. Recording is still a low-low one-time $29 [...]

RedButton Support for Windows 7

Legions of RedButton users can upgrade to Windows 7 and take advantage of all the RedButton “TiVo for Radio” pause and recording features.

Version 2.955 was released last Friday and has been working well. See the release notes here.

Learn more about RedButton here

A little investment

RadioTime Gets $900K Funding For Online Radio Guide

PaidContent.org, Aug 7 2009

Local Radio Guide RadioTime Lands $900,000 Digital Media Wire, Aug 7 2009

Venture capital investments in Dallas-Fort Worth

RadioDNS!

James Cridland from the BBC has done a nice job organizing RadioDNS. They are defining open lightweight standards broadcasters can use to publish details of terrestrial programming. We love the open approach – no forms or fees. They are focused on solving specific real-world problems.

RadioTime is an enthusiastic supporter in good [...]

Minor site updates

Now you can search for categories like espn, canada, or jazz and see browse options along with individual results. You’ll also see radiotime.com has the station/show/filter option restored. The option has been missing for a few months along with advanced filtering as we move results filtering from the browser to the service.

The [...]

Ministry of Sound

The new Ministry of Sound’s iPhone application is already the #6 music app in the UK store.

The app combines WunderRadio player technology and special content channels from RadioTime featuring Ministry of Sound dance and on-demand, along with local radio and browse.

Read more about the app from the Ministry of Sound blog

See screenshots on the RadioTime [...]

Its’s Widget Time

Local widget is live on Embarq.com

Listen and read Tweets

It’s fun to listen while watching Tweets with the audience.

Scott Kleinberg reviews the feature in today’s Chicago Tribune redeye.com.

The Twitter feed feature is now live in the RadioTime service APIs.

TV Widget

Your TV is now or will soon be connected to the internet