6-4-14
In May, Pandora says it had 9.13 percent of all U.S radio listening, that's down from 9.28 percent last month. Listener hours for May were 1.73 billion, up from 1.7 million in April. Active listeners in May were 77.0 million, up from 76 million in April. Pandora announced in March that this would be its final monthly metrics release. The company will release quarterly numbers during its earnings calls.
4-12-14
Bloomberg has the details of the lawsuit which says Texas Monthly sued the paper for $1 million over the hiring of its top editor to join the newspaper?s magazine division before his contract expired. According to Bloomberg, Ian Arnold, Emmis?s general counsel, told Times managing editor Dean Baquet that ?Texas Monthly expected to be compensated? for the cost of finding a replacement editor if Jake Silverstein was hired away before his contract expired in February 2015. ?Despite Baquet?s assurances,? the Times didn?t notify Texas Monthly and the magazine learned of the hiring from Silverstein just before the newspaper announced it on March 28, according to the lawsuit.
Read the Bloomberg story HERE
5-30-2012
Triton Digital released its monthly ranker for April online listening yesterday and, compared to March, other than a big jump from Slacker, there wasn't a lot movement. The top five companies in both March and April were Pandora, Clear Channel, CBS, Cumulus and Slacker. Based on "Active Average Sessions," (6A-8P Monday - Friday) Slacker radio went from 51,674 in March to 63,069 in April. Pandora and Clear Channel were slightly up while CBS and Cumulus were down. See the entire Triton top 20 ranker HERE