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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 […]

Online audio and podcast listening continues to grow in Australia

21/05/2020

Online audio and podcast listening continues to grow in Australia according to a recent study conducted by Edison Research on behalf of Commercial Radio Australia (CRA), Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) and Triton Digital. The findings are published in The Infinite Dial Australia 2020 which brings together the results of a representative sample of 1014 Australians aged 12 and older conducted in the first quarter of 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic. Key findings from the Infinite Dial 2020 Australia […]

SECTOR Radio – 10s channel

01/05/2020

SECTOR 10s is the latest channel from SECTOR Radio and joins it siblings – Progressive, Space, Classical, 80s and 90s in offering CD Quality Lossless FLAC internet radio. SECTOR 10s (branded ‘Zed’ on its URLs) is dedicated to music of the 2010s. The channel description says, “…SECTOR Zed is the music of a truly digital generation of people. On air hits of popular and homegrown performers.” The description goes on to say, “Generation Z is a […]

SiriusXM Premier free offer extended to 31st May

SiriusXM Premier free till 31st May

30/04/2020

UPDATE: 30/04/2020 – SiriusXM Premier free offer originally planned to last till 15th May in the US and Canada has been extended to the 31st May to support the millions currently staying at home because of the COVID-19 crisis. In addition to a new #StayHome Radio channel featuring happy, feel-good music SiriusXM has 300+ channels of news and information, entertainment, escape, and companionship across ad-free music channels, plus channels of live news, faith-based content, comedy, […]

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 […]

Top ten tracks played on UK TV and radio in the last decade

14/04/2020

The top ten tracks played on UK TV and radio in the last decade were announced by PPL, the UK’s music licensing company. ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams tops the chart at No. 1, followed by Adele’s ‘Rolling In The Deep’ at No. 2 – making her one of only two Brits in the Top 10 (alongside Mark Ronson) and the only solo female artist in the Top 10 – with ‘Moves Like Jagger’ by Maroon […]