{"id":8379,"date":"2010-01-07T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T08:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/internet_radio_threat_to_satellite_continues.html"},"modified":"2010-01-07T08:30:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T08:30:02","slug":"internet-radio-threat-to-satellite-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/internet-radio-threat-to-satellite-continues.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet Radio Threat to Satellite Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November of 2007 I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wireless\/pandora-competes-handily-with-satellite-radio.html\">wrote<\/a> about the threat of Pandora and<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/iphone-pandora1-5470.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/iphone-pandora1-5470.html','popup','width=213,height=388,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"466\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/iphone-pandora1-thumb-256x466-5470.jpg\" alt=\"iphone-pandora1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>other Internet radio companies to satellite radio. Back then, AT&amp;T was smart to link up with the streaming radio company to offer a service for $8.99\/month.<\/p>\n<p>Now Pandora is at it again and will be <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704842604574642560838415386.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">integrated<\/a> into a $1,200 automotive navigation system from Pioneer.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I have to wonder exactly what this device does to make it worth $1,200. Many smartphones can play Pandora for free and many new cars have an input jack allowing the music to be played through the car&#8217;s speakers.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth mentioning that Pandora <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/pandora-radio-doubles-users.html\">doubled<\/a> its subscribers last year and we can expect the popularity of Internet radio to increase even more over time. Still, Satellite radio has access to news, sports and other programming you can&#8217;t get on streaming radio services. But for music, it is impossible to match the diversity of streaming radio with a few hundred fixed stations. Finally, with satellite you can&#8217;t skip tracks. To many, including me &#8212; this is an invaluable feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November of 2007 I wrote about the threat of Pandora and other Internet radio companies to satellite radio. Back then, AT&amp;T was smart to link up with the streaming radio company to offer a service for $8.99\/month. Now Pandora is at it again and will be integrated into a $1,200 automotive navigation system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,1680,158,168,170,181,172,160,196,199,1681,118,174,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}