The official launch of Radioplayer is tomorrow morning, but the initial round of stations went live earlier this afternoon. Over 150 stations from Global Radio, GMG, Absolute Radio and the BBC have launched new players with common functionality that lets you easily flick between stations and, for the first time, has enabled the UK-wide search of stations, programmes and on-demand content.
This is really only the start though, with lots more stations starting to roll out in the next week or so (including Fun Kids, of course!)
The key reason behind the launch of Radioplayer is to provide a better environment for UK listeners, so it’s been great to see their response already today. I’ve Storified them below…