TuneIn

TuneIn is a global audio streaming service providing news, radio, sports, music, and podcasts to over 75 million monthly active users.

The company launched the subscription-based radio service exclusively for Alexa-enabled speakers, allowing subscribers to prompt Alexa to stream news programs as well as play-by-play broadcasts of MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL games.

[31] The platform has deals with various broadcasters of sports, news, talk, and music worldwide such as ESPN Radio,[32][unreliable source?]

On June 25, 2018, Audacy, Inc. (previously Entercom) announced that it would move online streaming of its stations from TuneIn to its then-named in-house Radio.com platform as an initiative of CBS radio.

[43][44] In September 2018, Cathleen Robertson, better known as DJ Carisma of KRRL, joined TuneIn to head Hip-Hop/R&B curation and artist relations initiatives.

[45] In August 2015, TuneIn announced deals with the MLB, the Premier League and the Bundesliga for live play-by-play coverage.

[53] In March 2022, TuneIn signed a multi-year agreement with Major League Baseball (MLB) to be an official audio partner of MLB, giving premium users access to live and on-demand play by play of all games, post-game analysis, and Spanish language broadcasts.

[55] In August 2015, the service launched deals with book publishers, including Penguin Random House and HarperCollins, to provide an audiobook library.

[58] TuneIn also partnered with Adobe Advertising Cloud in June 2018 to integrate targeted audio ads to consumers via smart speakers.

[59] In January 2019, TuneIn announced a partnership with professional golfer Greg Norman to integrate its audio streaming platform into his line of connected golf carts called 'Norman's Shark Experience'.

The companies also took issue with a feature in its premium tier, which was later disabled in the country, that allowed users to record broadcasts.

In November 2019, the English High Court ruled that, despite TuneIn's arguments that the premium feature in question was merely an aggregator similar to a search engine, the TuneIn service infringed the labels' rights by making streams not licensed in the country available to its users (an infringement of the exclusive right to communicate a work to the public, under EU copyright law).

[63][64][65] In September 2020, TuneIn began to geoblock all international radio stations for users in the United Kingdom, citing the earlier court order.