Philip Houska To iTunes Radio listeners who were introduced in 2013 and operates on the principle of an Internet radio service, it was announced on Friday that the free version is ending on January 29 and will be included in the music service Apple Music. So users will have to pay $10 to continue enjoying Apple Radio.
"Beats 1 is our main free-to-air radio show and we will be phasing out advertising supporting stations by the end of January," he told the server BuzzFeed News Apple spokesperson. "With an Apple Music subscription, listeners can fully enjoy several 'ad-free' radio stations created by our team of music experts, with support for unlimited song switching," an Apple spokesperson added, noting that radio is included in the three-month trial of Apple Music.
Like other internet radio stations, iTunes Radio did not allow song rewinds or repeats. Apple Music (including Beats 1) is in a different league than this and works the way users want it to. They can choose what they want to listen to, how they want to listen to it, but again for the aforementioned subscription fee.
Interestingly, the removal of ad-supported radio stations came in a short period of time after Apple gave up its iAd division and completely canceled the team that was in charge of the advertising system. According to the server BuzzFeed News it builds on each other, and Apple thus gets rid of one advertising part that the disbanded team was in charge of.
The fact that you will have to start paying for iTunes Radio only affects users in the United States and Australia. There, iTunes Radio was available for free even outside the Apple Music service. Its arrival in more than a hundred countries, of course, spread Radio even further than the two mentioned countries, but it never worked separately, always only with a subscription.
Source: BuzzFeed
