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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Yahoo’s Music Outsourcing Continues: CBS Takes Over Radio Offering

Here’s a Yahoo story I can report with certainty: The company is getting out of the Internet radio business, by handing over its Launchcast streaming music service to CBS. The transition will kick in during the first few months of 2009, says Michael Spiegelman, who heads up Yahoo’s music unit. It’s one of a series of moves the company is making to essentially outsource its music offerings to third parties.

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Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider.

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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