NetRadio Network Announces Partnership With Muze to Provide Music
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Business Wire - November 24, 1998 15:47
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MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 24, 1998--NetRadio Network (http://www.netradio.net), the leading provider
of original audio content on the Web and a majority-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation (Nasdaq:NAVR), extends its
role as the preeminent music site on the Internet by announcing a partnership with Muze, the leading source for interactive
music information.
The agreement provides NetRadio's online music store, CDPoint(TM) (http://www.cdpoint.com), access to the Muze
database by providing CDPoint customers information on over 200,000 pop and classical album titles. The database includes
information such as artists' career facts, album ratings and album release dates.
NetRadio plans to integrate Muze information with CDPoint, a leading online music retail site, to further develop NetRadio
Network's innovative "content-enabled" commerce, or C-Commerce(TM) business model.
"The partnership with Muze allows our customers to listen to, research and buy music directly from our site, which strongly
supports our C-Commerce strategy, while providing customers with a one-stop music shopping site," said David Witzig,
NetRadio's vice president of content & commerce development. "NetRadio can now say with certainty that we provide our
listeners with the most complete listen, click and buy music experience."
"We are excited to be working with the company that pioneered the first Internet-only delivery network for streaming audio
content," said Anthony Laudico, CEO of Muze. "NetRadio has demonstrated unique expertise in delivering a fully integrated,
net-based entertainment and marketing platform for interactive multimedia content, products and services. Muze is delighted to
have been chosen to enhance their ability to recommend and deliver music products to its audience."
About NetRadio Network
Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., NetRadio Network (http://www.netradio.net), a majority-owned subsidiary of Navarre
Corporation (Nasdaq:NAVR), produces and delivers custom music, information and original programming to the global
Internet community on a 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week continuous basis. NetRadio was the first Internet-only radio network
and is currently the world's largest on-demand Webcaster of originally programmed audio content, with over 150 channels of
on-demand music and information. Winner of RealNetworks' 1998 Streamers Award for "The Best RealAudio(TM) Net-Only
Radio" Web site, NetRadio routinely generates every month well over three million visits from around the world.
About Muze
Founded in 1991, Muze is the leading provider of digital information, marketing support and technology to a who's who of
online and traditional music, book and video retailers, including the following: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Big
Star Entertainment, Blockbuster, Borders Group, Camelot Music, CDnow, Columbia House, Harmony House, Hastings,
HMV, Music Boulevard, The Musicland Group, National Record Mart, Tower Records, Trans World, Virgin Mega Stores
and The Wall. Muze's in-store information systems for music, books and movies, and its advanced digital audio previewing
technology, can be found in over 13,000 locations throughout North America. In recent years, Muze has leveraged its position
as a respected independent authority for information about books, music and movies with best-of-breed database and Web
technology to offer totally customizable, searchable and integrated solutions to its traditional and online customers. Prominent
investors include John Kluge and Stuart Subotnik, partners of the privately held Metromedia Company, and Bob Weir of The
Grateful Dead. |
