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Old Time Radio Shows: http://www.radiolovers.com/
This site is all about old radio shows.
You can listen to great comedy teams like Abbott and Costello or listen
to a mystery solved by Ellery Queen. Some shows have multiple episodes. All shows are free.

Radios in the Classroom: Curriculum Integration and Communication Skills:
http://www.ericit.org/digests/EDO-IR-1999-03.shtml

Radio on the Internet: http://www.freepint.com/issues/170403.htm#tips

Live 365: http://www.live365.com/
Ever dreamed of hosting your own radio show? Not only is Live 365 is a directory of thousands of Internet-only radio stations, it also includes tools for and tutorials on producing your own streaming radio station. Other excellent tutorials found in the Help section include an introduction to streaming players ("How to Listen") and a streaming audio glossary ("Bitrate: For audio broadcasts, a higher bitrate typically means better audio quality.")

Radio-Locator: http://www.radio-locator.com/
Radio-Locator is the place to find radio stations you listen to in the car, or to search for international stations. It is a comprehensive database of 10,000 radio stations, a quarter of which offer Internet audio streams. You can search by call letters, zip code, city, format (such as jazz or K-12) or country. Internet-only stations are not included in the Radio-Locator directory.

Radio@Netscape (formerly Spinner): http://radio.netscape.com
America Online's Spinner has merged with Netscape Music to form Radio@ Netscape. They produce 175 free Internet-only music channels that stream 90 million songs per month. You can listen with any RealPlayer software, but if you download the Radio@Netscape Plus, you can rate songs, influence song play, and save favorite channels.

TechTV: Confusing Media Players: http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/stepone/story/0,24330,3399921,00.html
The very first step toward enjoying online radio is installing a few audio players. This short article from Tech TV's Call for Help gives you links for downloading three players: Apple's QuickTime, Microsoft's Windows Media, and Real's RealOne (formerly known as RealPlayer.) The article also provides download links for three useful (but optional) players to consider.

Yahoo! LAUNCHcast: http://launch.yahoo.com/launchcast/
Yahoo!'s LAUNCHcast not only hosts three dozen pre-programmed radio stations, but also lets you create a custom radio station with songs and genres you select and rate. Because of licensing considerations, you can't completely control how often individual songs are played , but your ratings do contribute to the overall mix of songs. To create your station, login using your existing Yahoo! username (or register a new one), and follow the on-screen instructions titled "Make Your Own Radio Station."

Useful Tools, from javelier7:  http://hometown.aol.com/javelier7/tools.html
Get all the tools to start listening to music on the Internet with this handy primer.

Streaming technologies have transformed online audio since the days when you had to wait patiently while downloading a few-seconds-long WAV file.  today, a wide selection of live radio stations in is available.   These range from the station that your neighbor is running from her living room to commercial radio stations.  And with ever-improving technologies, streming audio now offers better sound quality and more accessibility.  With a few clicks, you can catch the latest British football scores, hear the Montreux Jazz Festival, or start your own radio station without ever leaving the warm glow of  monitor.
 
Travel the World
Thousands ofWeb sites have popped up that are broadcasting streaming music over the Web.  but finding a station that fits our tastes can be hit or miss.  Internet radio stations boast some real advantages over traditional radio, such as commercial-free and DJ-free music.  Check out ChannelSeek:  http://channelseek.com and Yahoo!Broadcast: www.broadcast.com, two multimedia hubs that high-light online-accessible events and direct you to an array of sites and stations. 
Of course, traditional radio stations aren't missing out on theis wave.   Stations around the world are expanding their audiences by streaming their broadcast signals over the Internet.  If you can't bear another day of listening to the local morning show, vTuner: www.vtuner.com is the site for you.  this data base of online-enabled radio stations lets you search by genre or geographical location.  vTuner also rates the quiality of each station and provides direct links.    Similarly, Live Radio: www:live-radio.net offers an extensive list, organized by region, of radio stations tat broadcast online. Man of these stations, however, only support the RealPlayer fromat.  If you're using the Windws Media Player, you can visit WindowsMedia.com: www.windowsmedia.com for a listing of available stations.

Hear The News
Like traditional radio, Internet radio spans moremore tahn musical genres.  In fact, using the Internet to broadcast news makes it easy to access live or on demand news reports from around the world.  National Public Radio www.npr.org, for instance, posts hourly news reports that you can access at your convenience.   Internet newscasts also offer a global perspective that local radio stations can't.   Recognizing this, NPR launced tha World Radio Network:www.wrn.org to deliver live news from around the world 24 hours a day. 
If you're more interested in keeping up with United States news and politics, CNN Audioselect: www.cnn.com/audioselect offers a variety of live news feed, including Headline News, CNN International, and CNN en Espanol.   Similarly, C-Span: www.c-span.org broadcasts many of its segments, as well as C-SPAN Radio 90, via the Internet. 

Be The DJ
Starting your own staion is a lot easier -- and cheaper -- than ou might expect.  For delivering live broadcast in RealMedia format, Real Networks offer the Basic Server G2: www.real.com/products/servers/basic.html, which supports as many as 25 simultaneous listeners, for free.  Once you gain some popularity, howevder, you have to step up to one of the commercially available packages to accommadate more users.  To produce on-demand content, RealProducer G2: www.real.com/products/tools/producer/index.html is also a free download.
Shoutcast: www.shoutcast.com, another free product, integrates with Winamp to turn your computer into an Internet broadcast system.   While running server software, you can play MP3 files with Winamp.  Other Winamp users on the Internet can then turn in and listen to whatever you're playing.   The Shoutcast site acts as a portal, providing links to all of the servers tat are currently running and listing statistics, such as how many listeners each server has. If you'd like to dabble in Internet radio but don't want to deal with installing software, setting up a server, or spinning CDs, then check out Imagine Radio: www.imaginradio.com.  This cookie-cutter solution lets you choose specific genres and how often songs from each are played.   Imagine Radio's box handles the rest. 


This site began in March 1998 and was created by Janet Luch. 
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