. >> host: and joining us this week on "the communicators" is steve bene, general counsel for pandora media. mr. bene, how did pandora get started? >> guest: well, first, thanks for having me. this is a tremendous honor, to be included on the show. how did pandora get started? back in 2000 our founder, tim westergren, had the idea because he had been a composer for film. and when he went and talked to directors that he was supposed to compose film scores for, they would always tell him they wanted something that sounded like this meets that, or, you know, some kind of sound that they had in mind that they would reference off an existing musician or a band, and he would go back and try to create something like that. and when he decided that he didn't want to be a music, film composer anymore, he instead thought, wow, won't it be interesting if you were able to walk into a record store, and when you knew you had an artist or a band that you liked, but you didn't know a lot of new artists that were breaking or anything like that, if you could walk up to a kiosk in that store and punched in the

the hosts go joining us this week i'm treated to is steve bene, counsel for pandora media. how did pandora get started? >> guest: first, thanks for having me. this is a tremendous honor to be on the show. how did pandora get started? back in 2000, our founder tim westergren had the edge here because he had been a composer for film and when he went and talked to directors that he was supposed to conform some sort, it sounded like this is some kind of sound they had in mind off an existing musician or band. he would try to create something like that. when he decided he didn't want to be a film composer anymore, he instead thought it would be interesting if you are able to walk into a record store when you had a band or artist you like that you didn't a lot of artists that were breaking or anything like that. if you were working to a kiosk in that store and punched in the name of the band you like and put on the headphones and the kiosk could tell you samples of songs because you've indicated he thought a particular band or artist was a favorite. that was how the music genome p

joining us this week is steve bene, federal council for pandora media. how did and/or get started? -- pandora get started? steve: it's an honor to be included on the show. founder2000 our had been a composer for film. directorsd talked to that he was supposed to compose film scores for. they would all is told him they wanted something for a particular scene that sounded like this meets that, or some kind of sound they had in mind they would reference from an existing musician or band. he would try to create something like that. when he decided he didn't want to be a film composer anymore he instead thought wouldn't it be interesting if you were able to walk into a record store, and when you knew he had an artist or band you liked but he didn't know a lot of other artists in the world or new artist, if you could walk up to a kiosk in that store and punched in the name of a band you liked and put on the headphones and they kiosk could tell you were play for you samples of song some other bands you might also like because you imitated you like to particular band or artist. that was how

joining us this week is steve bene, federal council for pandora media. how did and/or get started?- pandora get started? steve: it's an honor to be included on the show. founder2000 our had been a composer for film. directorsd talked to that he was supposed to compose film scores for. they would all is told him they wanted something for a particular scene that sounded like this meets that, or some kind of sound they had in mind they would

pandora the pop of the basket on the back of its numbers. stocks are racing ahead. three top performers, media stocks, bp and gas is .9 higher. china macro data has been positive for the overall sector .9 on its trade. let's look at individual indices. 20 points off the 7,000 handle so far for the ftse. oscillating above and below that level. this morning we start a little below 7,000. it was down fairly significantly yesterday. almost .9 of a percent so we're scooping up some of that territory today. energy shares which tracked the weaker crude price. financial stocks are busy yesterday. we did see a bit push higher. look through for that improvement, three quarters of 1%. the general market is trading higher by .6 out of the gate. if you look at the two day picture about a third of a percent yesterday. gains today early on eclipse the losses you saw yesterday. i want to talk you through the oil trade. we had the oil trade below 50 on brent and below 47 on wti. the exception has been bp which is falling on the back of its earnings. i want to take you to shell. 3.1% hire. the stock was called