Clear Channel, MSpot re-mix familiar tune, bringing radio to handset.(News)

RCR Wireless News, April, 2005

Byline: COLIN GIBBS Music companies are rushing to bring streaming music services to U.S. wireless users, but while the technology exists to provide radio-like offerings to wireless users, the viability of a radio-like business model in wireless is far from clear. Clear Channel Communications Inc., the top U.S.

radio station operator, announced plans last week to offer programming to cell-phone users by the end of the year. The Texas-based company said it is talking with carriers to create content specifically for handsets and is considering offering a subscription service as early as this summer for online radio services. Mobile media startup MSpot beat Clear Channel to the punch earlier this month, launching 13 live and on-demand channels of...

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