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Subject: AOL Radio & XM Update: 4/30
Time: 2:37:00 PM EDT
Author: theradioblog
Dear AOL Radio listeners
Today the partnership between AOL Radio and XM Satellite Radio ended. As you may or may not be aware, XM’s business is focused on having consumers pay for their channels and AOL's business has changed from subscription based to advertising supported, so we are no longer able to offer XM’s channels. In addition, the record labels have dramatically increased the music royalty rates paid for Internet Radio. This action by the record labels left us no choice but to look for an alternative way to stay in the internet radio business. These new rates have impacted the entire internet radio industry, not just AOL. SoundExchange is the organization that is responsible for the increased fees and we have tried over and over to work with them to adjust the rates to a fair level to no avail.
If you would like to voice your support of lowering these fees to protect the future of Internet Radio, please feel free to email John Simson, SoundExchange Executive Director at info@soundexchange.com or call him at (202) 640-5890.
The good news is that even with all these changes, we have a lot of great things planned for the future. The upcoming partnership with CBS RADIO will offer AOL Radio listeners access to an additional 150+ channels. For the first time, AOL Radio will offer an extensive line-up of news, sports and talk stations, in addition to music. In addition to the new content offerings, we’ll also be launching a new player that will have new functionality, including song skipping -- which is just a start to the new things planned.
The AOL Radio staff is very passionate about what we do and we work very hard to give you the best radio experience possible. We understand that change is hard and but we must adapt to the changing times in order to keep AOL Radio available for our listeners.
In order to maintain your listening experience, we have set up a page which highlights the AOL stations which are similar to the XM channels. For example AOL Radio's Pop Mix & XM's Flight 26 play similar artists. Click here to check out the related station page.
We understand your concerns about the upcoming changes and hope you'll give us a chance to show you that the AOL Radio experience will continue to be the best radio offering on the web.
Sincerely,
The AOL Radio Team
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I am VERY FRUSTRATED with the new AOL Radio powered by CBS!! It will play a few songs and then it shuts off. OR, everytime the radio announcer does his speel, the music stops. What gives? I want the old AOL Radio back. We never had this problem. How come it's not still available? When are you going to let all of us know that you are fixing the problem? Most of the messages I read were about this same issue, so you need to let us know that you hear us and explain what's going on - or you're going to lose alot of us!!!!!!!
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Right now I'm not too pleased with the new cbs aol radio. I get one song to play then my sound goes off. Never had this prolem before.
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why doesd the up to date radio you put on cannot play but one song then you have to reset it. you should not put this crap out if you are still experimenting with it.
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This new format sucks. Give me back 50's XM. The damn thing just stops playing.
Vince Driscoll
7/16/08 1:35 PM
This is the worst show of an AOL product to date. I doubt any product in the future can be as bad as this.