Challenges and Opportunities for In-Car Streaming Radio | #pubmedia

Andrew Phelps, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab, writes that “Internet radio might keep FM company, not kill it”:

A study released yesterday by research firm knowDigital — based on interviews with about 30 heavy streamers in the Raleigh-Durham area who commuted a half-hour or more per day — found that listeners tend to stream Internet radio as a complement to, not a replacement for, AM/FM radio. Most report starting their listening day with terrestrial radio before switching to an Internet stream. And listeners tend to reserve Internet radio for longer drives, not five-minute trips to the dry cleaner. That would seem to corroborate a data point from an earlier Arbitron report: A whopping 89 percent of online radio listeners still used over-the-air radio.

Here are links to the knowDigital [pdf] and 12-min Flash audio.  --Dennis