{"id":60021,"date":"2015-08-26T18:29:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T10:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=60021"},"modified":"2025-01-29T08:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T13:26:32","slug":"tunein-radio-app-starts-8-tier-with-mlb-soccer-audiobooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/26\/tunein-radio-app-starts-8-tier-with-mlb-soccer-audiobooks\/","title":{"rendered":"TuneIn radio app starts $8-tier with MLB, soccer, audiobooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_60022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60022\" style=\"width: 309px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/devices.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60022\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/devices.jpg\" alt=\"TuneIn, an app that lets its users listen to over 100,000 live radio stations, plus on-demand content like podcasts and shows anywhere they go. (Photo from TuneIn)\" width=\"309\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/devices.jpg 309w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/devices-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TuneIn, an app that lets its users listen to over 100,000 live radio stations, plus on-demand content like podcasts and shows anywhere they go. (Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TuneIn<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 TuneIn, the app that gives users free access to thousands of live radio stations around the world, is launching an $8-a-month premium subscription service that throws in ad-free listening, audiobooks and live play-by-play coverage of Major League Baseball and soccer from the Premier League and the Bundesliga.<\/p>\n<p>The seemingly disparate offer caters to listeners who have varied tastes, says TuneIn CEO John Donham. That could be news in the morning, music at night, live sports whenever a good game is on, and a good book for long commutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turns out people want more than just one thing,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The package is meant to emulate the kind of mix one gets from satellite radio giant Sirius XM: premium sports, talk shows and commercial-free music.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy tadalista online <a href=\"https:\/\/chinaacucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pdf\/tadalista.html\">https:\/\/chinaacucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pdf\/tadalista.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> \u201cWe\u2019re out to build a worldwide version of that,\u201d Donham says.<\/p>\n<p>The offer launches in the U.S. on Tuesday, as well as in Canada, where it\u2019ll cost 9 Canadian dollars a month, and in the U.K., where it\u2019ll be 6 pounds a month.<\/p>\n<p>The offer adds 40,000 audiobooks from HarperCollins, Penguin Random House and Scholastic to the few dozen public-domain books already in the app.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy tetracycline online <a href=\"https:\/\/chinaacucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pdf\/tetracycline.html\">https:\/\/chinaacucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pdf\/tetracycline.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> New titles include Cheryl Strayed\u2019s \u201cWild,\u201d Sheryl Sandberg\u2019s \u201cLean In\u201d and George R.R. Martin\u2019s \u201cA Game of Thrones.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy amoxil online <a href=\"https:\/\/chinaacucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pdf\/amoxil.html\">https:\/\/chinaacucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pdf\/amoxil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ad-free listening is initially tailored to 600 Internet radio stations. Terrestrial radio stations in the U.S. and abroad are planned to be added in the next few months, Donham says.<\/p>\n<p>When a DJ cuts to a commercial break, TuneIn knows how long an ad break will be, and for paying subscribers, it will insert a song of roughly the right length that would fit the station\u2019s genre. Plugging the ad break of terrestrial stations with a song is a technical problem that will take a little more time to work out, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Launching a paid tier in addition to its free ad-supported service is born from the desire to add more content to the site that cannot be paid for simply with ads, Donham says, adding that reducing the number of ads played could actually help push prices up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you reduce the number of ads by 10 percent, the value of each ad would go up,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 TuneIn, the app that gives users free access to thousands of live radio stations around the world, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":60022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-60021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-original","mauthors-ryan-nakashima","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286733,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60021\/revisions\/286733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}