Stations submit their information and Alexa Radio Skills Kit Console handles publishing and discovery. After a station is onboarded, it becomes available on Alexa-enabled devices after 72 hours.

At its launch in 2014, radio pinned a lot of hope on Amazon’s Alexa to bring radio back into the American home. As Alexa numbers dwindle ten years later, Amazon is planning a huge revitalization ...

The companion Alexa skill we produced allows the listener to hear all four of those 10-minute stories — as well as three shorter, skill-exclusive "extra" segments — on demand, using just a few ...

In a game-changer for broadcast radio in the digital space, iHeartMedia has unveiled an interactive feature from Amazon Alexa designed to allow listeners of an iHeart radio station's audio stream ...

That’s a nice advantage for radio.” There are also ways to use Alexa to customize local listening habits, Walker said. For example, by asking Alexa to play NPR it will prompt you to find local ...

TuneIn Premium also offers more than 600 commercial-free radio stations, ... Alexa has supported TuneIn's regular service for years, so having access to the Premium service is a welcome upgrade.

Alexa is always listening. Occasionally, she gets things wrong. ... In at least one household, an ad for radio station WTOP is prompting an Amazon Echo to spring to life.

Chris Gould. The author is founder and VP digital technologies at All in Media, a supplier of radio station applications and part of Xperi. There are, more or less, 131 FM radio stations in New ...

Reuters reporter Greg Bensinger joins WGN’s Jon Hansen, in for Lisa Dent, to discuss Amazon’s new version of Alexa with generative AI. Greg talks about Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic’s Claude ...