Internet radio starters

  • 22 April 2008 - two that are pretty good about introducing you to new music out there
    • KCRW, all kinds of good stuff from Santa Monica Junior College in Los Angeles, California
    • All Songs Considered, NPR's Online Music Show
  • 17 April 2008 - if you were planning a road trip, you might want to listen to these stations in the car, but you can also listen online
    • heading west on I-40
      • WNCW, eclectic music from Isothermal Community College in Spindale, North Carolina
      • WEVL, community radio from Memphis, Tennessee
    • cruising along the Gulf Coast
      • KBON, Louisiana Proud Radio "is a locally owned Louisiana Music powerhouse situated in the heart of Cajun Country, Eunice Louisiana"
      • WWOZ, New Orleans' Jazz and Heritage Station
    • heading south on I-35
      • KYSM, from San Antonio College in San Antonio, Texas
      • KNBT, Radio New Braunfels in New Braunfels, Texas
  • 15 April 2008 - so many places to go, so little time. But you can use internet radio to keep you in touch with your home town
    • WXYC, Chapel Hill
    • WNCU, jazz from North Carolina Central
    • WSHA, jazz from Shaw University in Raleigh
  • 10 April 2008 - More ways to learn languages
    • Beeline TV, free online television channels from around the world
    • Jump TV, 250+ TV channels from 70+ countries
  • 08 April 2008 - More language learning assistance on the web. If you want to just improve your comprehension, listen to BBC in 33 languages. But if you want to learn a new language, there are lots of offerings. Here are a few.
  • 03 April 2008 - Language learning tools on the web
    • TELL ME MORE® (from EuroNews) offers 3 languages for learning: British English, Spanish and French. Each lesson lasts 30 minutes and is based around a video from EuroNews in its Original Language, in a way which encourages learning.
  • 01 April 2008 - EuroNews is Europe's news channel covering world news from a European perspective in a choice of seven languages. EuroNews broadcasts simultaneously in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Launched on 1st January 1993, as the first multilingual pan-European news channel, EuroNews has rapidly established itself as Europe's leading television news channel.
  • 27 March 2008 - another "I" - Ríkisútvarpið RUV - The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service
  • 25 March 2008 - a bit late for St. Patrick's Day, but "RTÉ is Ireland's national Public Service Broadcaster, serving the public by telling the stories of Ireland's relationship with itself and with the rest of the world."
  • 20 March 2008 - radio from the Balkans. B-92 from Belgrade was one of the only independent voices from Serbia during the Milosevic years.
  • 18 March 2008 - we looked at a lot of French and German sites, but there are languages as well
    • Radio Exterior de España - you can listen to the national broadcaster's services in multiple languages, including Spanish, Arabic, French, English and Sefardí (also called Ladino. It is a Romance language derived mainly from Old Castilian (Spanish), with borrowings from Sephardi Hebrew)
    • SÍRADÌO from Valencia
    • Los40 for popular fare
    • Radio y Televisión Andalucía - which includes the ability to watch live TV shows
  • 06 March 2008 - but you can also listen to a variety of national and regional broadcasts as well. For example,
  • 04 March 2008 -  if German is your interest, you can listen to Deutsche Welle, the German national broadcaster, in 30 different languages
    • in addition to their radio broadcasts, you can listen to a variety of Audio On Demand sessions
  • 28 February 2008 - two that aim for specific audiences
    • Radio Campus Paris - sort of like campus radio here
    • Beur FM - with a focus on young French listeners who are of North African descent
  • 26 February 2008 - or you can wander around the French radio dial - if your interest is in jazz, you can try TSF Jazz, broadcasting on 89.9 or Frequence Jazz, a station in Lyon that you can listen to all over France, as well as all over the world
  • 21 February 2008 - but you don't have to stick to the French government-sponsored radio
  • 19 February 2008 - as does BBC, RFI offers several music streams, but you can also look at their site map to find a service that is more tuned to your needs
  • 14 February 2008 - Radio France International offers its services in 19 different languages
  • 12 February 2008 - BBC offers a lot of online services. BBC 4 is a full menu.
  • 07 February 2008 - if one wants to learn more about the world through music, one can listen to someone else's selections. One of the best comes from the BBC's net services. BBC World Music seeks out music from all corners of the globe and plays it for an audience that might not hear it otherwise. BBC Radio 3 is a web broadcast of an over the air broadcast and the Andy Kershaw show is presented by one of the best guides to good music you might not have heard of.
  • 05 February 2008 - three internet radio streams, each aimed at a particular interest area
    • AIROS Native Radio Network, a way for a group to reach out beyond commercial radio
    • Radio Bilingüe, a non-profit radio network with Latino control and leadership, is the only national distributor of Spanish-language programming in public radio.
    • Midnight Blues, the same approach, but a genre focus. Who would have thought blues come from Utah.
  • 31 January 2008 - Batanga is somewhat like AccuRadio, but it focuses on a specific segment of the listening public's interest (by the way, Batanga is web broadcast from Greensboro). It also has a different way of putting music on the playlists. Listener Favorites are chosen by you! At Batanga, your vote counts. Each time you vote for a song by selecting the [icon] on the playlist, Batanga registers your vote. The songs with the most positive votes are listed [in the playlists]!
  • 29 January 2008 - two different ideas this week - AccuRadio offers listeners a sort of a jukebox approach with channels for different genres, in which listeners can exclude certain artists from playlists
  • 24 January 2008 - Pandora is again a different approach. Here the basis is the Music Genome Project in which Pandora seeks to add to your music stream other new releases that are in synch with your stated desires. It analyzes new music and offers it to you to see if you want to keep it in your stream.
  • 22 January 2008 - a slightly different approach. Brady introduced us to link networking with his starter last time - Musicovery is a really interesting way to link together music into listening threads.
  • 17 January 2008 - another approach to the same idea as Radio Paradise, Hober (they used to call themselves "Thinking Radio") is dedicated to playing acoustic, natural music. According to their site, Hober is just another person with a radio station (and) broadcasts from a geodesic dome in the oak forest just outside Washington DC (actually in one of the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.).
  • 15 January 2008 - Radio Paradise, an independent internet radio station with a live DJ. He's the person who created KPIG's online presence and is now running RP from his home. Though RP is a small-scale outfit, it reaches a worldwide audience. The Linux world is a big fan of RP since it was created solely with open source tools
  • 10 January 2008 - where it all began
    • the first commercial internet radio station - KPIG, 107 Oing 5 in Freedom, California
    • the first non-commercial internet radio station - WXYC, from right here in Chapel Hill

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