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Americans Listen to Radio 14.6B Hours Each Month

With an ever-growing number of media choices, Americans' preference for and reliance on radio continues to endure year after year. In the latest Radio Today by the Numbers, Arbitron's quarterly highlight of consumers radio usage, found that 93% of everyone in the U.S. listens to radio each week and that … more

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Nation's Sound Engineers Gather To Talk About Their Ponytails

AUSTIN, TX—Sound engineers from around the country converged on the Hilton Garden Inn Saturday for their annual convention in which they discuss their ponytails.  Read on

New Facebook DJ Feature

Taking Social/New Media to the next level:

Facebook DJ Feature of the Day: Facebook has launched its new “Listen With” feature, allowing friends to DJ for one another using Facebook Music-supported services Spotify and Rdio.

The “Listen With” button will appear in Facebook Chat, and you’ll see your friends listening with each other in your news feed. Clicking “Listen With” next to a friend’s name will allow you to listen in on whatever that friend is playing in real-time.

Each user can have up to 50 listeners at a time, and friends will only be able to listen with you if your privacy settings allow them to view your music listening activity. Services like Turntable.fm have already experimented with similar social listening

genomes but this definitely better integrates with the mainstream.

“Listen With” will be out later today for Spotify, and Rdio will be supported over the next few days.

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Aha Radio partners with Subaru and Honda, brings social media to 2013 vehicles -- Engadget

At last year's CES, Aha Radio brought its hyper-connected social media ways to two high-end Pioneer head units. This year, however, the service is about to make a bigger splash by announcing it'll be built into select 2013 Subaru and Honda vehicles. Equipped autos will have access to "thousands of personalized, web-enabled stations" like MOG, Rhapsody and Slacker, appearing as a selectable source alongside more traditional AM, FM and satellite radio options. 

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Public Radio Blood Feud 2012

On January 5th, 2012 the public radio show This American Life tweeted an olive branch to the public radio show On The Media: "It's a new year - should we end our blood feud?" The feud was of course imaginary, but it did result in an amusing thread.

Read The Thread Here: Public Radio Blood Feud 2012  via Storify