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Article: MTV gets the URGE for online music service.(MTV Networks Inc.)
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- The Online Reporter
- Article date:
- May 20, 2006
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MTV Networks has finally gone online with its much-anticipated digital music service. Developed in partnership with Microsoft, URGE boasts a subscription service, song and album downloads, more than a hundred Internet radio stations, oodles of editorial content and much more. The public beta version of the service is fully integrated into the new Windows Media Player 11 beta. URGE is the "recommended" digital music service in the player as well.
As the latest service to try to steal some market share away from Apple's iTunes Music Store, URGE hopes to differentiate itself with a number of music discovery features. Of course, even as it enters the already crowded ...