This is incredibly nice! Now if I could only listen live to all MLB games on my iPhone, I'd have no reason to have XM...

Scary thought.

Yes, and unfortunately for XM it is likely only a matter of time before MLB makes their streaming simulcast of games compatible with mobile devices. It wouldn't take that much effort to make an iPhone/gPhone/Treo/Blackberry version. Might not happen any time real soon, but MLB can smell a buck down the street. If they have any subscriber numbers at all to that online thing of theirs it will happen.

You just got to love the fact that there is always some little variable that cause consumers to either buy something or pay for a service to get the real "meat and patatoes" (MLB/ NFL) that is out there.

You just got to love the fact that there is always some little variable that cause consumers to either buy something or pay for a service to get the real "meat and patatoes" (MLB/ NFL) that is out there.

I want it all.

And it doesn't even have to be MLB that smells the revenue from the iPhone.

All someone needs to do is code up a Windows Media Audio player for the iPhone and then it becomes trivial to use an existing MLB Gameday Audio account to stream the games.

IIRC, MLB charges $10 a month for the audio streaming during the season and gives you home and away calls of every game. MLB plus thousands of music channels through shoutcast for $10 a month, versus XM for $13 a month? Admittedly, this assumes that you already have an unlimited data plan for other reasons, but, consider the type of person who might get an unlimited data plan: someone who's reasonably affluent and spends a lot of time on the road. Isn't that basically the core profile (excepting truckers) for a satellite radio subscriber?

Actually MLB is 9.95 for the whole year. But you don't get 28 hours of Holden Kushner a week.

The MLB is blocked on local radio stations because its on XM!! You can't hear them online!

The MLB is blocked on local radio stations because its on XM!! You can't hear them online!

The MLB is blocked on local radio stations because its on XM!! You can't hear them online!

What happens when these Internet radio stations are forced to pay royalties and licensing fees? They are not going to be allowed to use programming for free. How are they going to make money when they have to pay for content yet receive little, if any, revenue?

Until these questions are answered, it is really difficult to take them seriously. That someone developed an application for an iPhone that can stream radio stations is not exactly a big deal. When Internet radio becomes a viable medium with a viable business model, that may be a big deal.

Yeah....... Yahoo, Pandora, Last.fm, Slacker, and the thousands of terrestrial radio stations streaming online really haven't figured out that business model thing yet.....

Hold on a second- I've been streaming Shoutcast to my Dell Axim for two years. It is in no way comparable to satellite, especially on sound quality. For once I agree with Stack- there are stations, for example, playing all Beatles content 24/7 without paying a royalty- that can't last.

"...barely a day passes without the introduction of a new competing device or service." (David K. Rehr, 2006 NAB Radio Show, September 21, 2006)

monopoly??????????

WEll how do you get mlb radio on it. i have iradio but where is mlb radio. thanks

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So, where do you download this iRadio app?

Anyone know?

Thanks :-)

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ooTunes media server can stream any mp3 stream (or any movie/song) from your iTunes library to your iphone or ipod touch. It can even stream last.fm and pandora.
it costs $20, try the demo at http://ootunes.com