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.

How to listen to lossless FLAC internet radio with free media players

26/05/2020

Radio is a great source of free music, news and information. You can even get podcasts over the air in the Greater London area with Podcast Radio. With the advent of internet radio in the mid 1990s broadcasters started to add internet streams in addition to their ‘over the air’ programming. Early internet radio streams were often low bandwidth which reflected the dial-up nature of the internet in those pre-millennium days. Fast forward to today […]

First Public Radio

21/05/2020

First Public Radio is an internet radio station playing new music and top 40 hits and broadcasting CD Quality Lossless FLAC and MP3 streams. According to the station, they are “Radio for music and background sounding of any business. Radio without ads in high lossless quality 728 kpbs flac!” The station’s website is in Russian but Chrome will automatically translate the pages with pleasing results. There is a web player for the FLAC stream and 4 […]

Sonos launches streaming radio service

22/04/2020

Sonos launches streaming radio service containing curated genre-based stations, and more than 60,000 local radio stations now available to Sonos users for free. Sonos Radio is a free, ad-supported streaming radio experience complementing the 100+ streaming options available on Sonos. Research from Sonos suggests that nearly half of all listening time on their smart speakers is on customers’ favourite stations and DJs. Sonos Radio integrates multiple internet radio services, including TuneIn and iHeartRadio, with more […]

Intense Radio

01/04/2020

Intense Radio is specialist dance genre internet radio station broadcasting in CD Quality Lossless FLAC, 192kbps MP3 and 80kpbs AAC+v2 streams. According to the station: “Intense Radio started in March 2012 and is based in The Netherlands. We thought it would be great to offer a music format that is different from other internet radio stations. At the moment there is a crew of 15 enthusiastic dance, trance and house lovers who are a member […]

Podcast Radio launches in London

12/02/2020

Podcast Radio launches in London this week broadcasting in the Greater London area via DAB+ and online on Spotify, Deezer and Apple Podcasts. The station devoted exclusively to broadcasting podcasts features live presenters, hourly news updates and guest stars 24 hours a day. Initial guest appearances include Robbie Williams, Gene Simmons, Uri Geller, Charlotte Moffatt, Chris Kamara, Julian Clary and Steve-O. CEO Gerry Edwards says, “For listeners, Podcast Radio will enable them to discover and […]

Apple’s iOS 13 adds 100,000 radio stations

28/09/2019

Apple’s iOS 13 adds 100,000 radio stations in a new partnership with TuneIn which gives listeners access on all Siri-enabled devices and Apple Music. The collaboration coincides with the introduction of a new radio experience on Apple devices which includes iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, CarPlay and HomePod. TuneIn brings their long-time integration expertise to Apple by offering sports fans, news devotees and radio enthusiasts alike the ability to hear the voices they trust on […]

BBC pulls live radio from TuneIn

28/08/2019

BBC pulls live radio from TuneIn with the changes being brought in on 30th August 2019 according to a recent blog posting from the Corporation. Not every TuneIn stream will be affected and some older devices and Sonos speakers will continue to get the feed. The reasons given for this are that TuneIn cannot provide data on its users and the BBC’s policy is not to give online access to ‘anonymous users’ wherever it can. […]