RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter

Dear Criss,

After being the slowest to embrace the Internet among major broadcasters, CBS Radio last year decided Internet radio "is an incredible business -- we gotta own this!" CBS executives yesterday presented their "Rethink: The Next Generation of Radio" campaign in Chicago. CBS's David Goodman says the company's goal is to be #1 in Internet radio -- "fast!"

CBS also offered a preview of their Play.it personalized Internet radio service which incorporates a visual tool to add and remove artists from the user's personal station. We have a screenshot of an early version of it (the site will roll out over the summer), plus more from the CBS event, in today's issue of RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter, at http://www.kurthanson.com.

Also in RAIN today:

-- Webcast Metrics Internet radio numbers for March sees Clear
Channel with a nearly 75-thousand AQH and a cume of
over 2 million...

Read more in today's issue of RAIN at http://www.kurthanson.com. Thanks for reading!

Sincerely,

Paul Maloney, Editor
RAIN: Radio and Internet Newsletter

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