That means that the chip supports all 40 cellular radio bands currently in use.
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Slacker Radio will be interviewing bands and offering up commentary on the showcases.
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Ernie D, the creative director of Radio Disney, said such bands were finding success much more quickly than their predecessors in the 1990s.
The company notes that the WCS spectrum was first auctioned in 1997, but has not been utilized for mobile Internet usage due to technical rules designed to avoid possible interference to satellite radio users in adjacent spectrum bands.
"You look at the top of the rock chart, and you see all kinds of bands who have had Top 40 radio hits, from Staind and Foo Fighters and Blink-182, " he said.
From the 1980s, when remixes and longer versions of songs allowed for people to become attached to singular songs rather than albums, right up through today, where technology plays a pivotal role in how we find music, we have moved past the days when a radio station was the only means of discovering new bands.
The Radio 1 stage, meanwhile, is led by two bands known for their experimental performances - Mansun and The Flaming Lips.
By the '90s, Sonic Youth had become a fixture of college radio stations and achieved cult status with legions of other bands emulating their sound.
After signing up for an account, users can type in the names of favorite bands, and Pandora will create a customized radio station that spins similar songs.
The technology uses gaps in radio spectrum, called 'white spaces', which exist in between frequency bands.
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The group kicked off a change in radio programming, as so-called alternative stations have put them and other folk bands into rotation next to hard-rock acts.
"Iron Maiden has never relied on radio play or TV or the conventional forms of media that a lot of music bands rely on, " says Sam Dunn, a documentary filmmaker and Maiden fan who's making a film of the group's "Somewhere Back in Time" tour.
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