The Demise of Radionomy Marks the End of Free Streaming for Internet Radio...
After the demise of the first incarnation of Live365 in 2016, European streaming platform Radionomy remained the last platform to offer free streaming to internet radio stations. However, the writing...
View ArticlePodcast #299 – Cassettes for Art, Radio and Recording TV
It seems like physical media continues to have a hold on humans, even while most of us in the West engage with online, streaming and virtual media for much, if not most, of our time. Audiocassettes...
View ArticleArt Bell to Expand Distribution of ‘Midnight in the Desert’ via Satellite
When Art Bell announced his return to daily broadcasting last spring the plan was to be internet-only, with just one shortwave station picking up the online feed. By the time his new show, “Midnight...
View ArticleChromecast Audio Makes for an Even Better Internet Radio
I’ve written before how a Chromecast is a great and inexpensive way to bring internet radio into your living room, or anywhere you have a television. Now, Google is taking streaming audio one step...
View ArticleMy Sonos Is an Internet Radio
At the end of last year I bought a Sonos Play:1 speaker and a Sonos Connect stereo component to add super-simple on-demand music streaming to a couple of rooms in my apartment. I’ve really enjoyed how...
View ArticleWebcast Royalty Rates Set for College, Community & Public Stations
The Copyright Royalty Board recently released two orders that affect community and college radio stations. The CRB sets the royalty rates that webcasters pay for the right to play recorded music....
View ArticleOnRad.io Makes Finding Songs on Internet Radio More Social
Serial music and radio entrepreneur Michael Robertson is back with a new platform that updates and replaces his Radio Search Engine idea, with a focus on making it easier to share songs on social...
View ArticleWhy American Independent Internet Radio May Go Extinct in 2016
The new performance royalty rates that internet radio will pay artists and record labels were released on December 16 and many small and mid-sized internet-only broadcasters are now fearing they’ll be...
View ArticlePodcast #29 – Will 2016 Be the End of Indie Internet Radio?
Small and medium sized internet-only radio broadcasters are facing a very immediate danger in 2016, due to changes in the performance rates that they are obligated to pay. Some estimates indicate that...
View ArticleApple Ends Free iTunes Radio – Not All Curation Is Created Equal
On Friday Apple sent an email to iTunes Radio listeners announcing that the free ad-supported version of the service will shut down January 29. Thereafter iTunes Radio will only be available to Apple...
View ArticleLive365 to Broadcasters: We’re Shutting Down Jan. 31
Live365 is one of the oldest streaming radio service providers, having provided online broadcast tools to countless webcasters, small and large, since July 1999. Early on the service made it...
View ArticlePodcast #31 – It’s the 13th Hour for Small Webcasters
It’s the 13th hour for small webcasters, as broadcasters and supporters scramble to find a solution to new performance royalty rates that threaten to put hundreds, or even thousands of stations out of...
View ArticleHow You Can Listen to Super Bowl 50 on the Radio
Looking for info on how to listen to this 2021’s Super Bowl LV? Click here. For football fans who can’t be in front of a TV or an internet-connected device this Sunday, February 7, radio remains one...
View ArticleIndependent Internet Radio Still Imperiled
Internet radio expert Kurt Hanson declared January 31 to be Sunday Bloody Sunday for the medium. Most significantly, that was the day that Live365 turned off 5000-some internet radio streams it hosted...
View ArticleWill Performance Royalties Create a New Class of Radio Pirate?
Thousands of internet radio stations have gone silent in 2016, while thousands more may yet shut down, primarily because of new performance royalty fees that have skyrocketed for small and mid-sized...
View ArticlePodcast #33 – 20 Years Ago Local Radio Was Crushed
Twenty years ago a piece of legislation was passed that would change radio forever–and not for the better. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 lifted ownership restrictions on stations, unleashing an...
View ArticlePodcast #35 – Digging for Clues About Internet Radio’s Future
We dig into the Copyright Royalty Board’s decision on new royalty payments for internet radio, looking for clues about the future of small and medium-sized webcasters. In our final review of the 20th...
View ArticlePodcast #37 – Preservation, Pirates, and Radionomy
On this week’s show we hear about efforts to preserve radio’s past, and the FCC’s letter writing campaign intended to undermine pirate operators. Jennifer Waits joins to talk about the Library of...
View ArticlePodcast #38 – Survey Says: Stations Must Be on the Internet & YouTube
The annual Infinite Dial survey of American listening habits is out. Paul and Eric analyze the results and what they indicate for community and college radio and podcasting. In particular, Paul argues...
View ArticleLonely in Hong Kong (or elsewhere)? Start an Internet radio station
Are you working abroad? Do you now live in some wonderful city that is fascinating and different, but also pretty difficult to navigate through, socially speaking? Well, one solution is to do what...
View ArticlePodcast #75 – The Most Significant Radio Stories of 2016
From the unprecedented build-out of LPFM community stations and the indie internet radio implosion to 100+ radio tours and a recent tragedy, Jennifer, Eric and Paul run down some of the most...
View ArticleLive365 to Return with Service for ‘Microcasters’
Just after the new year, the news hit that steaming radio service Live365 is preparing to come back from dead. The company is under completely new ownership. In fact, the new boss is a young...
View ArticleStation not on the Internet? You’re Losing Young Listeners, Big Time
Your broadcast station–LPFM, community, college–needs to have its programming on the internet, one way or another. Now. Why? Because you risk missing a generation of listeners whose media intake is...
View ArticleOpen Internet Back in the Crosshairs
If there were any doubts that new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai would fall in lockstep with the Trump Administration, wonder no more. Last week Pai revealed his plans to undo the Commission’s Open Internet...
View ArticleEven Its Creator Can’t Kill MP3
The MP3 is dead, we’re to believe. That’s because the technology’s inventor, the Fraunhofer Institute, has ended licensing of the patented technologies needed for the encoding and decoding of MP3...
View ArticlePodcast #93 – The Return of Live365 Boosts Indie Internet Radio
Independent internet radio was devastated in January 2016 when music royalty rates shot up and long-time webcasting company Live365 went out of business. Now Live365 is back under new ownership, and...
View ArticleWhy Radio Survivor Supports the Day of Action for Net Neutrality
Today is the Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality. Radio Survivor is a supporter because we understand clearly how the internet is a powerful medium to disseminate diverse and independent voices. As...
View ArticleAudio Treasures and Unexpected Radio on TuneIn
While exploring the music discovery and listening service TuneIn this week, I was pleased to find many of the radio stations that I was hoping to encounter, including college radio, new low power FM...
View ArticleHappy Coincidences in Sound Art Radio
While trying to find the Wave Farm Radio feed on TuneIn this afternoon, I stumbled upon “NAISA – New Adventures in Sound Art” and tapped play. What I heard fit the bill of what I was looking for, but...
View ArticlePodcast #125 – Radio Free America Is an Online Hub for Noncomm Radio
Radio Free America is an online hub for community, college and public radio streams, serving up two weeks of archived programming, on demand. Founded by CEO Kenneth Pushkin in 2013, the platform now...
View ArticleIs YouTube the Home of the New Radio Pirates?
“Will performance royalties create a new class of radio pirate?” That was the question I posed in early 2016 after the music royalty rates for small internet radio webcasters skyrocketed with the...
View ArticleThe Podcast Patent Troll Is Dead and Buried
The final nail in the coffin of the so-called “podcast patent troll” has been struck. Last week the Supreme Court declined the petition for review filed by Personal Audio, the company holding the...
View ArticleInternet Radio Is Older Than You Think
A protocol for streaming audio on a computer network was first published 44 years ago. That’s likely a good two decades or more before you, or most people, even heard of the internet. In fact,...
View ArticlePodcast #160 – Marking a Quarter-Century of Internet Radio
Internet radio is older than you think. In fact, it’s at least a quarter-century old… and maybe even a little older. That’s the history Dom Robinson uncovered, and he joins to tell the story. He’s the...
View ArticleDash Radio Investment Demonstrates Interest in ‘Real’ Internet Radio
News about Dash Radio crossed my transom the other day, as the growing internet radio operation announced that it secured $8.8 million in seed funding. It’s interesting to see this sizable of an...
View ArticleInternet Radio History: The Real Networks Years
In part two of his history of internet radio, Dom Robinson covers RealAudio, the technology that pushed streaming internet audio into the mainstream, years ahead of video. He talks with Dave...
View ArticleThe Shortwave Radio of the Internet: Low Bitrate Streaming
While updating the 2004 podcast entries for my old radio show “mediageek” I was reminded that I used to post the episodes in both a 64kbps mono “broadcast quality” MP3 and a 16kbps. The reason why I...
View ArticleHow to Listen to Super Bowl LIII on the Radio
Looking for info on how to listen to this 2021’s Super Bowl LV? Click here. Updated Jan. 31, 2019 Once again it’s time for my annual hunt for the Super Bowl on the radio around the world. Last year I...
View ArticleWhat Happens to Internet Radio when Apple Kills iTunes?
I have to admit that I don’t quite remember the last time I browsed internet radio in iTunes. It’s been so long, in fact, that during research for this post, when I fired up the app on my MacBook I...
View ArticleInternet Radio on the Mac, After iTunes
After assessing the state and likely demise of the iTunes internet radio tuner, I started to consider what this means for listening to internet radio with a computer, rather than mobile device, smart...
View ArticlePodcast #219 – The Next Chance To Get an FM Station License; a College...
In April 2020 the FCC will open up the next auction for FM radio licenses. This is the next, and only currently scheduled opportunity to build a new radio station in the U.S. Jennifer, Eric and Paul...
View ArticleAfter the Death of iTunes Real Internet Radio Is Back on the macOS Music App
Back in June I openly worried about the future state of internet radio on the Mac with the arrival of macOS Catalina and the demise of iTunes. While iTunes has its faults, it still provided a simple...
View ArticleThe Near-Death of Independent Internet Radio Is One of the Most Important...
Internet radio experienced a sea change in the middle of the last decade that washed away many independent broadcasters, and changed the atmosphere for others. While the medium continues to sail on,...
View ArticlePodcast #227 – A Banner Decade for Community Radio and FrankenFMs
We begin part one of our review of the last decade in radio with the observation that it saw the greatest expansion of community radio in history. Though the second US LPFM licensing window that...
View ArticlePodcast #228 – College Radio’s Biggest Decade
Last week we declared that the 2010s were a banner decade for community radio. As Jennifer notes, though college radio had a tough start to the last decade, with the loss of prominent stations like...
View ArticleOnline Panel on the History of Internet Radio Is Part of the World Audio Day...
This Tuesday, April 21, at 12 PM EDT I’ll be participating in an online panel on the “History of Internet Radio,” as part of the first World Audio Day virtual conference. I’m really excited to be in...
View ArticlePodcast #243 – A Radio Survivor First
A common theme on Radio Survivor is that claims of being first should be viewed skeptically. From purported first college radio station to first internet simulcast, we’ve learned that there’s always...
View ArticlePodcast 253 – Sound Streams: Dissecting the History of Internet Radio
Internet radio was born more than 25 years ago, yet, according to Edison Research, only in the last month has the medium garnered just 10% of all broadcast listening time in the US. We might lay at...
View ArticlePodcast #255 –‘Geek of the Week’ and the Beginning of Internet Radio
Carl Malamud is credited with having one of the very first streaming internet talk radio shows, “Geek of the Week,” beginning in 1993. And because it was available for download, too, it’s considered a...
View ArticleMy Sonos Is Now an Even Better Internet Radio
I got my first Sonos speaker more than five years ago, and since then I’ve installed a speaker in nearly every room of my small house (except the bathrooms). Just a few weeks ago I treated myself to...
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