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Cingular to Offer Radio Service

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the try-try-again dept.

Mika24 writes "Red Herring is reporting that Cingular Wireless will launch a new over-the-air-radio service in conjunction with the TV service they will offer with MobiTV." The music programming will be done by Music Choice and will include rock, urban, country, reggae, jazz, electronica, and classical. From the article: "MobiRadio uses the improving screen capabilities on cell phones to offer album art and information about songs and artists during playback. Cingular said it will expand that capability to let subscribers purchase related ringtones and other content while the music is playing--a set of features made popular by satellite radio providers."

3 of 76 comments (clear)

  1. over-the-air-radio service by Patrik_AKA_RedX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wireless radio? Who had ever tought that would be possible. Now we'll be able to listen to radio in our cars! Soon these might even be small enough to be carried around. I expect that to happen in the near future, sometime around 1950 or so.

  2. FPS by Ecko7889 · · Score: 1, Funny

    At 8 fps I can almost make out Janet Jackson's tit.

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  3. Re:Music Choice? by HardCase · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...I have a niggling suspicion that Comcast owns a major piece of Music Choice...

    Suspicion validated! From a Music Choice press release:

    Headquartered in Horsham, PA, Music Choice is a partnership among subsidiaries of Microsoft Corporation, Motorola, Inc., Sony Corporation of America, EMI Music and several leading U.S. cable providers: Adelphia Cable Communications, Comcast Cable Communications, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable.

    Egads, the seven horsemen of the apocalypse plus the antichrist?

    -h-