servicemen and servicewomen around the world.(Photo credit: WION Radio, used by permission “We also have, unlike Pandora and its ilk,” he says, “some actual station voices to give us “stationality,” but they’re mainly brief sweepers that don’t draw attention away from the music.” The little AM station I wrote about recently in Michigan - WION/Ionia () recently completed its Treasures for Troops event, in which the station collects donations to be sent to U.S. “We have a lot more variety and personalization options than AM/FM streams, and unlike Pandora (which is programmed primarily by computer algorithms using their Music Genome Project), our channels are curated by real human beings who love music. What sets Accuradio apart from other streaming services? Hanson says it’s the personalization and customization. That led Hanson to found Strategic Media Research and eventually launch Accuradio. Except every 70 minutes, the station wrecked the music flow by playing Sammy Davis, Jr.’s “The Candy Man” because 8-year-olds were buying and requesting it! ARGH! I dreamed of the day when radio programmers would have a better handle on what their listeners wanted to hear – and even better if listeners could control what they heard.” “It was a great summer for music – Jackson Browne, the Stylistics, Badfinger, America, the Chi-Lites, Don McLean, Paul Simon, etc. “I haven’t thought about this for a long time – it was actually when I was in high school in 1972 in Milwaukee, listening to one of the first FM top 40 stations (WZUU-AM/FM),” he explained. He’s worked in radio since high school and has advised stations throughout the country. What inspired Hanson to develop an internet music service after a successful career in and around radio itself? Besides RAIN, he founded Strategic Media Research where, among other things, he launched an alternative ratings service to Arbitron (now Nielsen) called AccuRatings. All of them are curated by actual people who are said to love music many of whom have backgrounds in music, radio, or television. The original three channels - pop standards, modern rock classics, and piano jazz - have evolved into roughly 1000 channels covering more than 50 musical genres.
Originally called RAIN radio due to its connection to founder Kurt Hanson’s RAIN newsletter – Radio and Internet News – Hanson later changed the name to Accuradio. Here’s what caught me off-guard: The service isn’t new! It launched back in the early days of radio streaming in 2000. I combined top-40 HitKast with Alternative Now and Today’s New Country to create a channel I haven’t named yet. One killer feature I found almost accidentally is station blending: If you find a channel you like and want to add to it, you can combine the two.
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Audio quality is superb with full fidelity as I listened in my truck. You can listen to Accuradio through the company website ( ) or via smartphone apps available for the iPhone or Android. That said, Accuradio is new to me, so I began my quest to find out more. It’s barely past Thanksgiving so I’ve only just started thinking about Christmas. While I think that must be some kind of a record if so, I haven’t verified the numbers. “Last time I looked, we were at 68 channels last year we did 81 stations.” “We’re highlighting the upstart, competitive nature of AccuRadio by launching 100 holiday season channels at a pace of one at least one a day,” says company spokesman Michael Lev.
The announcement was intriguing: Accuradio is aiming to add 100 holiday music channels to its online service.
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