Sep 08
15
FlyCast Challenges Satellite Radio with New iPhone App
Today, the native iPhone application for FlyCast’s mobile broadcast network was released in the Apple iPhone app store. The extensive content line-up, with over 1000 digital channels, includes virtually every genre of music, terrestrial radio, weather, talk, and traffic. The new iPhone player also includes a host of listener experience enhancements and time-shifting features never before delivered in a broadcast environment.
FlyCast’s new TimeSlip features include “StreamSlip(TM)”, which allows users to continue to listen to a station even during extended periods without a connection; “Top of the Hour(TM)”, which allows latecomers to listen from the beginning of talk radio shows; “SongSkip(TM)” allows forward skip on certain webcast stations and pause on all stations. Other new features include an embedded web browser, allowing users to surf the web while listening to their favorite station, background play and battery saver modes, a connection speed identifier, and the ability to play any of over 25,000 worldwide Internet radio stations in the Shoutcast directory.
Unlike other iPhone radio apps that offer music from just one channel or broadcaster, the FlyCast Network offers listeners freedom of choice. FlyCast’s media includes the majority of the top webcasters in addition to top terrestrial radio stations from all over the country. Included in the over 1000 channels are stations from partners AccuRadio, Entercom.
