Radio Archives

Radio listening declined in UK during pandemic

06/08/2020

Radio listening declined in UK during pandemic because of lockdown according to Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator. In Ofcom’s third annual Media Nations research report it reviews trends in the TV and online video sectors as well as radio and other audio sectors. Radio listening key findings Radio listening was broadly resilient during lockdown, but the sector will need to weather the advertising market downturn exacerbated by COVID-19. • 14% of online adults stopped listening […]

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 […]

COVID-19 is changing listening habits in US

23/06/2020

COVID-19 is changing listening habits in the US with the percentage of listeners streaming AM/FM Radio increasing to 10% and the share of time spent listening to audio at home has increased by 44%. These findings are from the Share of Ear reports from Edison Research and represent the results of two surveys conducted in May 2020. Streaming accounts for 10% of AM/FM Radio Most radio stations in the US now can be heard online […]

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 […]

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 […]