Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Real to Stream Music to Comcast Users
Posted by James Fee in "NEWS" @ 02:00 PM
"RealNetworks has expanded its partnership with leading cable provider Comcast to offer its Internet radio service, called Rhapsody RadioPlus, free of charge to Comcast's 6.5 million broadband subscribers. RadioPlus is an integrated part of Real's Rhapsody jukebox subscription music service. Rhapsody RadioPlus, which normally runs $5 USD per month, includes 90 radio stations, 30,000 artist-based stations and allows users to build their own custom radio stations. However, if Comcast subscribers wish to search for and listen to a specific song, they must upgrade to the full Rhapsody product that costs $10 USD per month. Real currently boasts 625,000 customers of its music service."
I'm not a fan of Real, but free streaming RadioPlus isn't a bad thing at all. Hopefully more broadband providers will offer similar services to their customers giving more value to the service. Its a basic service, but I could see using this myself.
I'm not a fan of Real, but free streaming RadioPlus isn't a bad thing at all. Hopefully more broadband providers will offer similar services to their customers giving more value to the service. Its a basic service, but I could see using this myself.
