--- Brian Kelsay Brian.Kelsay@kcc.usda.gov wrote:
[Long post] Somebody asked about web radio a few days ago. I got around to more than the stock answer this morning and these look hopeful.
http://www.radio-locator.com/ http://www.web-radio.fm/ http://www.virtualtuner.com/ http://www.radiotower.com/ http://www.webradiolist.com/ http://www.vtuner.com/
I still stick by my answer of going to Shoutcast first for free streams, but the above links could take you directly to the web sites of land-based radio stations that also happen to stream. Some stations stream with better quality than others.
http://www.airamericaradio.com/ is another free talk radio stream (New York-based) with some popular personalities (Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, and other Comedy Central comics).
Locally KCUR (UMKC NPR station, http://www.kcur.org/) offers free streaming web radio.
Neither site requires registration.
AirAmericaRadio is available on the XM Satellite Radio service. Its not free ($10 a month last time I heard), but its certainly available everywhere.
On a side note, when I listen to talk radio during the day (980 am), sometimes I can't stand the AM hum so I listen on the web. Because of where I work and the proxy server they use, I can only listen to stations that stream on port 80. Oddly enough, I get Rush Limbaugh by going to 640am in Atlanta. This leads to some strange commercials and traffic reports. http://www.wgst.com/stream.html Some of these stations require you to subscribe with a username or email address and create a password. 710am in KC is one of those and I have to go to the site with IE or it doesn't work, due to some java scripting that is browser specific.
I can only imagine that they do the user/passwd dance so that the marketing dept. knows who is listening online for demographics. It's still ad supported you know.
===== And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that.
-- Bertolt Brecht
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