Live365 Showcases New On-Demand Audio Technology Teams With CMA For Fan Fair Promotion With Exclusive Country Celebrity Interviews and An Autographed Guitar Giveaway
Interviews Include Lee Greenwood, Tracy Lawrence, Tim Rushlow and Many Others Who Also Autographed A Guitar To Be Given Away On the site.
FOSTER CITY, CA - June 4, 2001 - Live365 (www.live365.com), the world’s largest Internet broadcasting community with over 37,000 Internet radio stations, today announced the launch of a special series of exclusive country musician interviews, including Lee Greenwood, Tracy Lawrence, Tim Rushlow, and many others, by utilizing Live365’s new on-demand audio technology and enabling visitors to hear the audio files on a simple click-to-listen basis. Live365 is also featuring a contest allowing Live365 listeners a chance to win a Yamaha Guitar also autographed by the stars
The series of interviews on Live365 provide users with the opportunity to experience country music stars speaking openly about their lives and various topics behind the scenes and away from the spotlight just in time for Fan Fair 2001, the world’s biggest country music festival taking place in downtown Nashville, Tennessee June 14-17. The fair features performances by many country music legends, up-and-coming talent and a few of the music stars interviewed by Live365.
“Live365 wanted to reach out to the Country music fans on our site. Fan Fair is one of the biggest events in Country Music and these interviews along with the guitar give-a-way is a great way to reward our listeners and showcase our new on-demand audio technology,” said Alan Wallace, Senior Vice President of Communications for Live365. “Live365 continues to reach out to their fans and users with innovative and new developments and is why we have quickly become the biggest name in Internet radio.”
"CMA is delighted to engage with Live365 on this exciting new programming and promotional relationship," said CMA Sr. Director/International & New Business Development Jeff Green. "Live365's commitment to Country Music represents an important opportunity for the fans and artists to interact, which is what Fan Fair is all about. We look forward to continuing this new partnership year 'round."
Utilizing standard CD-style controls from the play list window, Live365’s professional broadcasters can access tools providing a limitless supply of audio files that can be uploaded with Live365’s On-Demand Audio technology. Once uploaded, users that visit a particular professional broadcast station with On-Demand Audio can listen to a complete audio selection at their convenience.
ABOUT LIVE365
Live365 (www.Live365.com) is the world’s largest broadcaster of streaming MP3 content on the Internet, with more than 37,000 free stations available for users to listen to at anytime, and innovative proprietary technology for users to create their personal, unique station to broadcast to a worldwide audience. Rated one of the largest aggregate network streamers in a recent report issued by Arbitron, Live365’s “Studio365” tools empower traditional radio stations, record companies, community groups and others with a free and easy solution to streaming audio over the Internet. A leader in the development of Internet radio through wireless devices, Live365 created the first streaming MP3 player for the Pocket PC, and also offers all their stations on a variety of portable Internet radio players. Founded in July 1999 in Foster City, CA, Live365 has recently been nominated “Best Music Site” for The 5th Annual Webby Awards to be announced July 18, 2001
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