Radioplayer opens up for all stations

26/06/2012 - 19:43 | 6 Replies More

Radioplayer is to open up its service to non-Ofcom licensed stations, but initially only 30 slots are being offered.

Any stations interested in joining – for a fee – can fill out an application for review.

The online player currently features over 300 Ofcom licensed live stations, 15,000 on-demand items, and attracts 7 million regular listeners.

Radioplayer Managing Director, Michael Hill told RadioToday.co.uk: “Radioplayer’s already full of incredible stations and programmes, but over the past year or so, we’ve come across dozens of brilliantly innovative new ideas too. We’re hoping we can bring some of them to life on Radioplayer, and help grow those green shoots into fully-fledged broadcast stations.”

The 30 available slots are being split up equally across Non-Ofcom non-profit stations, such as community and student radio, existing Ofcom broadcasters, wishing to launch new online-only services and non-Ofcom companies wishing to launch new commercial offerings.

Interested stations will be asked to accept some mandatory requirements, but will also be judged against a weighted list of factors, including:-

· The extent to which the new station complements existing Radioplayer services

· The amount of traffic and promotion the applicant will drive to Radioplayer

· The level of innovation in the content, technical, and commercial model

· The business model, including proposed annual licence fee

Michael Hill added: “I’m expecting an amazing array of new ideas, some from unusual sources. Let’s hope our application panel has a really tough time deciding on the winners!”

Application documents can be downloaded from radioplayer.co.uk/stationideas. Radioplayer was launched in March 2011, and is expected to release a mobile version of the desktop player this year.


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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001860309652 Laundry Laundry Matt

    Need to get Takeover radio on there, that’s good, much better than the Big 3. [Heart, Capital & Smooth] definatly feel would pull in listeners.

    • Christopher

      Takeover is Ofcom licenced anyway, so that station has been eligible for Radioplayer almost since launch.

  • Radio Geordie

    I would love to see TOTAL ROCK on there as it takes an age for my computer to load their online stream.  Even then, it would occassionally keep dropping it.

    In fact, I think that the Radio Player people should give prefference to stations which broadcast genres like Takeover Radio as mentioned below by Laundry Matt, rather than just pumping out the same crap.

    In fact, they could free up more space by dumping all the Hearts on there and leaving the London one on there as they all broadcast exactly the same shit anyway even when they are on local opt-out.

  • Tillmechanic

    Radio player is not iPad friendly, it needs Flash which Apple in its wisdom does not support :(
    Tunein is a good replacement, plus a few thousand more streams are available

  • RichardOnTheRadio

    Using as many platforms as affordable is probably the way to go and Radio Player is certainly a good option, however i would consider TuneIn to be preferable for both broadcaster and listener in terms of choice, no geographical limitations and cost.

  • http://www.facebook.com/AsterickJones Asterick Jones

    Radioplayer is pretentious, elitist, industry exclusive crap. Let’s all listen to a radio player that is deliberately locked down to a much restricted list is geared around the big players and only those that suck up to the established system and OFCOM, and now they are oh so generously offering slots for a mere 30 more stations, who needs that with the much superior TuneIn directory being truly open access and listing far more station choice, including all the established ones with a stream and just about anyone else who streams, there is no need for RadioPlayer with its restrictive listings and any radio enthusiast will be well on to the benefits of TuneIn by comparison.
    RadioPlayer feels about as formal as it would be if OFCOM had their own player.

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