Audio podcasts now reach about half as many people as Internet radio.

Accoding to a new survey of Internet users, 31% listen to radio via the Internet and 16% listen to podcasts.

VTech has introduced a new $200 WiFi radio that promises to make traditional radio irrelevant. The horribly named VTech IS9181 is a Wi-Fi music streaming device, designed to make accessing the near-infinte variety of Internet radio as easy as traditional radio. The IS9181 connects to any wireless network (802.11 b & g) and lets you [...]

Why Radio & Music Industry Sucks Nowadays offers an interesting look at the state of radio, and touches on why podcasting and Internet radio are becoming such important media for young radio listeners.

Edison Research has released their annual joint study, with Arbitron, of Americans’ radio consumption habits – and it shows that podcasting continues its steady, unrelenting growth.

According to the report, the audience for podcasts has grown by a healthy 22% since last year.

This is a demo video of the new FlyTunes Internet radio tuner service. FlyTunes delivers music, talk, weather, and traffic to the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. The video shows the installation process and demos a few stations.

Radionomy, a Belgian startup, is a site that lets you create a free, ad-supported Web radio station The site, now in beta testing, is designed to make creating a Web radio station trivial, letting you browse through vast music, jingle and content libraries made available by Radionomy. You can also integrate your own musical creations [...]

Pandora, the internet radio service of the “Music Genome Project,” has announced that it is discontinuing its service in the UK, effective January 15. Pandora lets users design their own streaming radio stations based on their musical preferences. Pandora’s continued operations have been uncertain since mid-2007, when licensing body protests in North America and UK [...]

At the 2008 CES Show, FlyTunes introduced a new digital music service for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and other portable media players and cell phones: FlyTunes offers a personalized radio-like experience, with thousands of channels of digital music. Features: FlyTunes does not require a receiver or additional hardware purchase – it works with your [...]

Music industry group SoundExchange said Tuesday that small Internet radio broadcasters could pay royalty rates from 10-12% to stream traditionally-licensed music online through 2010. Qualified Webcasters ‚Äî those earning $1.25 million or less in annual revenue ‚Äî have until Sept. 14 to accept SoundExchange’s offer. The agreement covers streaming recordings of SoundExchange members. SoundExchange represents [...]

Burst Media has released the results of a survey on media consumption of 18-24 year old college students, reporting that students spend more time with the Internet than with other media. Burst also reports that Internet audio and video were two of the students’ top reasons for using the Internet. According to Burst, many students [...]