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Yahoo! Music Radio (formerly known as LAUNCHcast ) was an Internet radio service. The service, which featured both an advertising supported free version and a subscription fee -based premium version, allowed users to create personalized Internet radio stations by rating songs selected by a recommender system .
In June 2001, after the bursting of the dot-com bubble, Yahoo! acquired LAUNCH Media, which was facing financial difficulty, for $12 million. [1] [2] [3] In addition to a website with music news and videos, it provided an Internet radio service that allowed users to create personalized Internet radio stations by rating songs selected by a recommender system.
Yahoo! Music Jukebox was the software used for the service. The service required an active Internet connection. It was discontinued on September 30, 2008. [6] [7] The service was praised for its music quality, interface, and cheaper price than competitors. [8] [9]
Yahoo! Movies; Yahoo! Music – Provided Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming; shut down in September 2018 and consolidated into Yahoo! Entertainment's "Music" section. Yahoo! Music Unlimited and Yahoo! Music Jukebox – Acquired from MusicMatch; sold to Rhapsody on October 31, 2008. Yahoo!
Discontinued radio streaming service; now a database for tracking listening histories [93] 28 April 2014: Batanga Radio: Shut down [94] 25 December 2017: MixRadio: Shut down [95] 21 March 2016: Music Unlimited: Replaced by PlayStation Music powered by Spotify. [96] 29 March 2015: Musicovery: Shut down the interactive radio service and now a ...
Broadcast.com was an Internet radio company founded as AudioNet in September 1995 by Cameron Christopher Jaeb. Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban later led the company's daily operations which was eventually sold to Yahoo! on April 1, 1999, for $5.7 billion, making it the most expensive acquisition Yahoo! has made. [1]
Broadband Radio@AOL was built into the AOL 8.0 software, and was the first AOL Radio offering based on the AOL streaming technology Ultravox. By 2003, AOL had migrated most of its AOL Radio products to Ultravox. [4] It was released in the UK on October 20, 2003. [4] On April 11, 2005, AOL and XM Satellite Radio joined to create Radio@AOL ...
Yahoo! acquired Launch Media and its LaunchCast internet radio platform in 2001 amid the dot-com bubble; [26] [27] in 2005, the service evolved into Yahoo Music Unlimited, a subscription service that allowed songs to be streamed in DRM-protected Windows Media Audio (WMA), and purchased for an additional fee.