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While many people consider Pandora and Sirius to be direct competitors, they have very different business models and plenty of room for growth in their core businesses. Stock analysis firm Trefis explains that Pandora's popularity rides off its "free" and customizable services while Sirius's major selling point is ad-free content.

Radio advice guru Laura Schlessinger - better known as Dr. Laura - plans to leave her program at the end of the year after her controversial use of the N-word on the air. Schlessinger sparked off controversy last week when doling out advice to a caller who asking what to do about racial comments...

Daniel Schorr, a commentator on National Public Radio and former reporter for both CBS and CNN, died Friday at the age of 93.

Air America is bankrupt, and this time it looks like it will be for good. The liberal talk-radio network, founded in 2004 to serve as a counterbalance to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, is shutting down all operations and filing for Chapter 7.

Faced with the likelihood of breaching its financial covenants, Citadel Broadcasting -- which syndicates several popular broadcasters, such as Don Imus -- took the initiative Sunday and filed for bankruptcy protection. That will let the radio broadcaster get out from under most of its $2.5 billion debt.

If you haven't noticed, the world of streaming Internet radio has been on fire lately. The sector, which involves people creating their own customized radio stations on computers or smartphones, has grown by leaps and bounds, with tens of millions of users in the United States tuning in on a...

WalletPop's Lan Nguyen chats with T.J. Stiles, author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Knopf), on how the Commodore became one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in American history. Stiles recounts and explains how Vanderbilt catapulted himself from a working-class...

First she got a big fat book deal. Then she was supposedly being courted for TV stardom. Now Sarah Palin could be taking into the airwaves in a different form, as the host of her own radio talk show. "[S]ources say Palin representatives have been quietly testing the waters to see how much interest...

Yesterday evening, my phone was buzzing after receiving an email from "Tim," the Founder of Pandora! The internet radio company was going back and forth with legal battles since 2007 after the Internet Radio Royalty Ruling.Luckily, Pandora is safe, but must pay royalty fees to record labels. To do...

With the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett Thursday, it was not difficult to notice that Twitter and Facebook are now the places where people gather when wanting to reminisce or reach out. "Stepped off a 10-hour flight to discover Twitter is essentially a wake for recently departed...