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New Service Changes the Way People Listen to Radio; RadioTime Lets People Find and Record Any Radio Show and Then Listen at a Time and Place of Their ChoosingDALLAS --(Business Wire)-- June 27, 2005 -- RadioTime announced today a new service that changes how people listen to radio. With it, listeners can quickly locate radio programming through a comprehensive guide to 50,000 shows airing on 36,000 radio stations around the world. Once located, users can listen to their favorite programs live, or tag them for recording. They can then listen to their recorded programs on any consumer device -- such as an Apple iPod(TM) -- at a time and place of their choosing. Tim Edmonds, assistant swim coach at Stanford University, is an early user of the RadioTime service. "My wife and I love listening to 'Car Talk' on PBS. But 'Car Talk' isn't necessarily on when we have time to listen. RadioTime fixes that. Now we record every episode of 'Car Talk' and listen to it when we have time ... in the car, working in the yard, or at the gym. We love it." According to industry analysts(1) 98 percent of adults listen to an average of 21 hours of radio every week. This is on a par with cable TV (19 hours/week) and broadcast TV (15 hours/week). Yet despite the heavy use of radio there has been no way to search for programming or record upcoming programming -- until now. "RadioTime is one of those innovations that when it finally comes you wonder why nobody else has done it yet," said Peter Christy, co-founder of the Internet Research Group. "It is like a cross between Google for radio and TiVo for radio." RadioTime, available now, provides three simple plans for consumers: -0- *T Plan Cost Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Basic Free Limited RadioTime guide Listen live to 50 different radio programs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Personalized Free with Full interactive registration RadioTime guide Listen live to thousands of radio programs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Portable $39 per year Full interactive RadioTime guide Listen live to any radio programs Record any radio program Listen when and where you want(2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *T About RadioTime Founded by industry veteran Bill Moore in 2002, RadioTime is a privately held company specializing in making radio more accessible. Headquartered in Dallas, RadioTime has staff working around the globe to keep their patent-pending RadioGuide accurate and up-to-date. For more information, visit RadioTime at www.RadioTime.com. For more information or to schedule an interview, contact Neil Myers at 801-373-7888 or e-mail [email protected]. (1) Source: Veronis Subler Stevenson Communications Industry Forecast (2) Requires optional consumer MP3 player iPod is a registered trademark of Apple. |
