When Steve Jobs created the iPad, the last app he had in mind was an app for radio. The iPad was designed for TV, videogames, movies, music, books - anything and everything that requires a pair of eyes. It was not designed for radio but among the 2,500 iPad apps and more than 100,000 upgraded apps imported from the iPhone and iPod Touch, CBS Radio, Clear Channel and online music service Pandora have added apps to the iPad. CBS Radio has launched a radio.com app that streams more than 550 stations. Clear Channel has added its own iheartradio app and Pandora is also available as an app...
This could be the smartest move CBS, Clear Channel and Pandora have ever made. Over 700,000 iPads have already been sold and that figure should swell to 1 million within 3 months. Analysts have upped their sales projection for the iPad from 4 million to 7 million for the year 2010. Without hazarding a guess as to how many of those 4 to 7 million consumers will listen to radio, CBS, Clear Channel and Pandora have to pick up additional listeners just by accident...
Radio will happily take the downdraft of the TV networks, studios, movie rental companies, videogame makers and comic book publishers who are positively giddy about getting a piece of the new moneymaking platform known as the iPad...
10 Timeline Memories:
1.1909] Heading north: Explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson become the first men to reach the North Pole. This is authenticated by the Navigation Foundation in 1989...
2.1930] Twinkie munch: Hostess Twinkies are invented by bakery executive James Dewar who washes it down with a scotch...
3.1958] Arnie's Army: 28-year old Arnold Palmer wins the Masters in Augusta (GA). Arnie's Army is born...
4.1973] Designated: The Yankees' Ron Blomberg becomes the American League's first designated hitter at Fenway Park. A rule still in effect but only in the American League. The National League knows better...
5.1974] Share and share alike: The Yankees who start sharing Shea Stadium with the Mets while Yankee Stadium is renovated, beat the Indians 6-1 in their first game there. They get their stadium back in time for the opener in 1976...
6.1980] Stick it: Post-it notes are introduced to the public...
7.1980] Curtains: Gordie Howe's remarkable 26-year NHL career ends when at 52 he plays his last game and scores his 801st and final goal for Hartford against his former team - the Detroit Red Wings...1987] Dodger VP Al Campanis is quoted as saying "blacks lacked the necessities to be managers" to Ted Koppel on "Nightline". Campanis soon lacks the necessity of a job...
8.1992] 'Happy Trails': Science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov dies at 72 from AIDS, contracted by a blood transfusion during open-heart surgery...1998] Legendary Country singer Tammy Wynette dies in her sleep in Nashville at 55. Tammy, who I had the pleasure of meeting, was known as "The First Lady of Country Music" for having 18 Number one hits on the Country charts...
9.1998] A marriage made on Wall Street: Citicorp and Travelers Group announce a merger creating the largest financial-services conglomerate in the world under the name Citigroup...
10.2004] This school knows basketball: On April 5th, the Connecticut Huskies men's team wins the NCAA championship by beating Georgia Tech 82-73. On April 6th the female Huskies win their title by beating Tennessee 70-61. It's the first time a Division 1 school wins both titles in the same season...
Music Memories:
•1963] Heard on the radio on this date: "It's My Party" by Lesley Gore who heard her first record on WINS coming home from school...
"Happy Birthday...happy birthday":
Zach Braff (35), John Pizzarelli (50), Marilu Henner (58), John Ratzenberger (63), Roy Thinnes (72), Billy Dee Williams (73), Merle Haggard (73) and Andre Previn (81)...
Timeline Countdown: 25 days until the Kentucky Derby, 34 days until Mother's Day and 55 days until Memorial Day...
