Radio

In addition to conventional broadcast radio stations, you will find information on internet only radio stations and radio consolidation services such as Accuradio, Pandora and TuneIn. We also include in the radio category services that stream dedicated channels presenting the user with a ‘radio’ experience rather than the on-demand and configurable experience of say a Spotify or Apple Music. An example of this kind of ‘radio’ streaming would be Digitally Imported which streams 13 different channels of electronic dance music.

Naim Radio

19/12/2020

Naim Radio is one of three internet radio channels from Naim Records – a part of the top end HiFi firm Naim Audio. The three channels showcase the company’s unique approach to combining an uncompromising attitude to recording quality and a desire to promote less well-known artists. Naim Records “has traditionally given a voice to musicians whose music may not have had the chance to be heard by a wider audience, and continues to do […]

Magic Radio

30/11/2020

Magic Radio is a French internet radio station that is broadcasting ‘Oldies Hits 24 hours a day’. In addition to a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream it provides 192kbps MP3, 64kbps AAC streams, a TuneIn web player and iOS and Android apps. According to Loïc, the station’s creator, Magic Radio has been broadcasting since 2002 ‘mainly titles of the Eighties but also sometimes of other decades.’ The station is his personal non-profit project and he says, […]

Radio Cumbernauld

28/11/2020

Radio Cumbernauld is a pop music internet radio station broadcasting which used to broadcast a CD Quality Lossless FLAC and a 192kbps MP3 stream. The lossless stream has now been downgraded to a 64kbps AAC stream and the site now no longer offers an Android app. According to the station they are “Cumbernauld, Scotland’s official radio station”. The station was established in 1987 by then school boy Jason Dolan and is based 13 miles from […]

Magic 108 Radio

28/11/2020

Update 28/11/2020. Magic 108 Radio has had a change of name and a rebrand to become Kool 95. For more details go to our listing here. We have kept the original post text below for historical interest. Magic 108 Radio is a Canadian internet radio station broadcasting a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream. According to the station, Magic 108 is “where real classic FM radio pop hits live on!” It would appear that the station […]

UK commercial analogue radio to get 10 year extension

05/07/2020

UK commercial analogue radio to get 10 year extension to their licences when they start to expire in early 2022 according to new government plans. Media Minister John Whittingdale set out how commercial radio will be licensed over the next decade so that listeners to popular radio stations such as Classic FM and TalkSport can continue to enjoy their stations of choice for another ten years. Nearly 60% of all radio listening is now via […]

SUN

27/06/2020

SUN is a community or ‘associative’ radio station broadcasting on FM, DAB and the internet to the Pays de la Loire region in France and has been operating since the late 1990s. It has three ‘conventional’ radio stations SUN Nantes, SUN Cholet and SUN Saint-Nazaire together with 8 theme based internet ‘WebRadios’: SUN Sport SUN Metal SUN Nouvo SUN Soul & Funk SUN Rock SUN Hip Hop SUN Jazz SUN Classique The station also makes […]

Radio Paradise now has song title info

21/06/2020

Radio Paradise now has song title info and is experimenting with separate FLAC streams which contain metadata. As the station says, “The links below include stream metadata (song title info). Like everything about FLAC streaming, this is still somewhat experimental. If you experience an increase in dropouts or glitches, we recommend going back to the main links.” Main Mix FLAC (with metadata) – http://stream.radioparadise.com/flacm Mellow Mix FLAC (with metadata) – http://stream.radioparadise.com/mellow-flacm Rock Mix FLAC (with […]