More digital music, and RealNetworks have announced details of a new pan-European online radio service to be called RealMusic. The new venture, which will launch here in the UK first, will offer punters access to 300 CD-quality ad free online radio stations via the net for £8.50 a month. The stations will include a number of genre specific channels run by Real themselves, plus streams produced by third parties, which will include Ministry Of Sound and Carl Cox at launch. Once subscribed, music fans will also be able to buy ringtones and full-track downloads via the service. Rolling out into Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain in the first half of 2006, the new service is the first big push music wise for Real in Europe. The launch of the RealMusic service seems to replace or at least postpone Real's original plans to launch their US music platform, Rhapsody, over here.
Dec 14, 2005
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Real to launch new streaming music service
RealNetworks is launching RealMusic, a pan-European ad-free online radio service costing £8.50 a month, starting in the UK before rolling out across Europe in 2006.