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iHeartRadio Canada's Killer Screens & Gadgets App

Bell Media has trounced its competition in just about every category you care to name with its iHeart Radio app. Its success is attributable to unique content, like Shakey's Sunday night concert, and a multi-platform marketing campaign.

iHeartRadio Canada's Killer Screens & Gadgets App

By David Farrell

Since launching the iHeartRadio mobile app 14 months ago, Bell Media has trounced its competition in just about every category you care to name and is now the dominant screen and gadget player in the market.


This week, the company  released an updated edition of the player app that adds compatibility with Apple Watch, Apple CarPlay, Android Wear, Android Auto, and Sonos wireless speaker networks.

Describing its content-rich player as the “fastest-growing music service in Canada”, Bell Media reports iHeartRadio averages 1.8 million active online listeners monthly since launching in October 2016. The service also boasts a complement of 1,230 radio stations across all formats including sports, news/talk, ethnic, gospel, and comedy, One can also slice and dice to fine tune by music genres.

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Unlike nearest competitor Radioplayer with its no-frills menu advertising 500 radio stations, the iHeartRadio Canada app is also home to 10,000 podcasts, a large number of commercial-free music playlists that are genre specific, a growing catalogue of unique music content, and a website that is constantly updated with smartly-written pop culture content.

There’s also the just-launched exclusive-audio component called Secret Sessions that debuted Dec. 1 with Neil Young’s Omemee livestream concert that had 250,000+ people listening online before the show started at 8 pm ET. The same concert airs on the CTV network this Sunday, starting at 9 pm EST.

Users should note that the app update now requires users to create a Bell Media login.

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Not By Choice on MuchOnDemand on MuchMusic in 2002.
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Not By Choice on MuchOnDemand on MuchMusic in 2002.

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Obituary: Mike Bilcox of Ajax, Ontario Pop-Punk Band Not By Choice

Former drummer and now head of Round One Sports & Entertainment Liam Killeen pens this tribute to his former bandmate, with words from The Feldman Agency's Jeff Craib, Sum 41's Dave Baksh, Simple Plan's Chuck Comeau and more.

Mike Bilcox, lead singer and guitarist of Ajax, Ontario’s second most famous pop-punk band, Not By Choice, passed away on June 21, at age 48.

Mike started Not By Choice with his Ajax High School friend Glenn ‘Chico’ Dunning back in 1997. They had initially played a few shows under different names that may or may not be suitable for print, but our moniker came from Mike bothering his younger sister Chrissy at the dinner table. When she couldn’t take any more of his taunting, she promptly told her Mom, Pat, that he was annoying her – Pat yelled ‘Well, he’s your brother!’ to which Chrissy quickly replied ‘Yeah, not by choice!’. With that, a real band was born.

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