«IPC Ignite, publishers of NME magazine has teamed up with Xfm founder Sammy Jacob and music company DX Media to launch NME Radio. The station will broadcast via 'various digital platforms' from mid-2008 and will be presenter-driven with alternative music 24 hours a day» 

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«The San Diego Union-Tribune's SignOn San Diego site is set to officially launch its all-San Diego-music all-the-time streaming radio station Monday» The San Diego Business Journal reports Harry Martin, better known as "Happy Hare," is among the crew of veteran radio personalities recently hired by The San Diego Union-Tribune's newest Internet radio station (they now have two). Martin, credited as being among the first to bring his own zany style of platter chatter to the airwaves in the late 1950s, welcomes the chance to develop his latent talk show talent in a format he calls "newsic," which combines news talk and music each Wednesday afternoon on SignOn Radio, the paper's second Internet radio station. SignOn Radio, an eclectic format, was launched in October, about a year and a half after "Amplify SD," the Union-Tribune's unplugged station plugged exclusively into the local indie rock scene. It's unique among major U.S. daily newspapers, since none have followed suit.