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Road test: internet radio

Posted by Paul • Tuesday, April 15. 2008 • Category: streaming

While shortwave radio - at least in English - is declining, internet radio is booming. It was only a matter of time before listeners decided that they didn't want to be tied to their computer to listen to it. The Sydney Morning Herald has published a review of four internet radios: the Grundig IR6114, the Bush TR2015R, the ASUS Internet Radio and the Pinnacle Soundbridge Radio. Thanks to newtaste of aus.radio.broadcast for the reference.

Fiji radio now streaming.

Posted by Paul • Friday, February 8. 2008 • Category: domestic radio, streaming

The Fiji Broadcasting Corporation has taken leaps and bounds to improve its website, over the last year, and now all of its six radio stations are streaming over the internet. This now gives the rest of the world a great opportunity to hear from a country that has been rather inaccessible on the radio bands up until now.

The stations are:

Radio Fiji 1: News, weather, culture, religious programs in Fijian and English. [Stream]

Radio Fiji 2: News and information in Hindi. [Stream]

Bula FM: Popular local and international music, in Fijian. [Stream]

Radio Mirchi: Hindi pop music. [Stream]

Radio Fiji Gold: 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's music, targetted at the 35-60 age group. [Stream].

2Day FM: youth station, playing a wide range of modern music. [Stream]

ABC Darwin streaming online

Posted by Paul • Sunday, December 2. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, shortwave radio, streaming

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's local station in Darwin, 105.7 ABC Darwin, is now streaming online meaning that now, local ABC stations in all state and territory capital cities are available via the internet.

ABC Darwin carries many of the programs broadcast on VL8A, VL8K and VL8T, Australia's only remaining domestic shortwave transmitters.

Victoria's 3GV streaming - and to become Gold 1242

Posted by Paul • Thursday, November 29. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, streaming

There's not all that many regional Australian radio stations streaming their programs on the internet, but as of this week, there's one more: 3GV, broadcasting from Sale in eastern Victoria, on 1242 kHz.

However, the station will only exist with this name for one more day; according to The Spy Report, the station will be relaunched on Friday November 30th, 2007, at midday, with a new name of Gold 1242, playing oldies.

The station's stream is here.

ABC Canberra now streaming online

Posted by Paul • Wednesday, October 3. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, streaming

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's local station in Canberra, 666 ABC Canberra is now streaming its programs online, after testing on and off for the past couple of months. The stream is available here.

New digital RTE stations Ireland, no internet streams yet.

Posted by Paul • Tuesday, August 21. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, streaming

Last month, Ireland's national broadcaster RTE opened up four new digital radio stations, using DAB: RTE 2XM, specialising in new music, aimed at the youth market; RTE Digital Radio News, a 24h news bulletin station; RTE Gold, playing music from the 50s, 60s and 70s; and RTE Junior, targetted at children.

There were no internet streams available for the stations on RTE's website, so I contacted RTE to find out if there were plans for this in the future; RTE's response was: "Longterm yes. However, at the moment it's only at trial stage.".

New streams for Hobart commercial stations

Posted by Paul • Sunday, August 19. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, streaming

Hobart commercial radio stations Sea FM and Heart 107.3 are now streaming their programs on the internet. The quality of the streams isn't great, but it certainly is listenable. With last week's news of a new stream from ABC Hobart, these new streams mean that 70% of the radio stations available in Hobart are now accessible from the internet.

Links:

Sea FM Hobart stream

Heart 107.3 Hobart stream

via "Radio Expert" of aus.radio.broadcast

ABC streams more local stations.

Posted by Paul • Wednesday, August 8. 2007 • Category: streaming

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has launched a number of new internet audio streams for some of their local stations. In addition to the existing streams for ABC Melbourne, ABC Sydney and Coast FM on the Gold Coast, there are now streams for ABC Adelaide, ABC Perth, ABC Hobart and ABC Newcastle.

Links to the stream can be found at the ABC's Backyard Audio page.

Iceland leaves shortwave

Posted by Paul • Tuesday, July 10. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, shortwave radio, streaming

MT Shortwave Central notes that RUV in Iceland ended its shortwave relays on July 1st.

RUV's two stations can still be heard, streaming in the internet: Rás 1 and Rás 2.

Radio Mayak, Russia

Posted by Paul • Monday, July 9. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, streaming

Long-time shortwave radio listeners will remember Russia's Radio Mayak, which at one time was rather hard to avoid on the shortwave bands, having many, many transmitters.

Mayak's shortwave broadcasts are long gone, but for those who would still like to listen to its interesting mix of Russian bands and western pop music, it is streaming over the internet here.

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