After watching an old tv program about the history of television that Carl has posted at kdxradio.com, I went to the waybackmachine to find a similar video about radio.
After watching an old tv program about the history of television that Carl has posted at kdxradio.com, I went to the waybackmachine to find a similar video about radio.
Well I didn’t find what I was looking for, but did watch a couple videos I found interesting..
Web Radio (broadcast over a decade ago)
The Internet is changing the world of radio as thousands of radio stations around the world go on line. This program reviews the latest in web radio, including web only stations. Demonstrations include Imagine Radio, Spinner.com, and GEEK Radio. Guests include DJ “Davey D” and his “HipHop Corner”. Originally broadcast in 1998.
http://www.archive.org/details/WebRadio99
What it’s like to do Morning Radio:
Episode 6 of Life as a Comic explores what it’s like to do morning radio. Follow Rob up to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he appears on the Kramp and Adler show on WLUM 102.1.
http://www.archive.org/details/Morning_Radio
There’s also this, which I assume is only audio:
AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH THE EYES OF RADIO
This is a production of the Old Time Radio Researchers (OTRR)
I only bookmarked it and have not listened to any of it yet, but mention it because it sounds like a winner. –It consist of 5 CD’s, with 5 freely downloadable (large) zip files from this link:
http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_Certified_American_History
Eyada
Back in the late 90’s, Bob Meyerwitz and Semaphore Entertainment sunk millions into Eyada.com. It was the first serious attempt to stream high quality web based programming.
It featured dozens of programs and 4 channels streamed at fat bitrates (especially for back then) and broadcast from a professional studio.
I enjoyed Eyada while it lasted and was sad the day it shut down. Eddie Goldman, who hosted No Holds Barred, and I have talked with great nostalgia about those days. Even today, nothing compares.
Eventually, the money ran out and the dot com bust was at hand.
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/200102011515/http://eyada.com/
Great memories
Eyada was great and another good company that died not because there was anything wrong with the product but because capital dried up – sheesh, frustrating!
How much did I love web radio? I paid for REAL Networks ver Real Player 2.0. It was able to record whatever it played. Oops! They had to kill that feature 🙂
I remember getting the same “DXer” thrill from catching an early bit of web radio. Some of those early bandwidth and encoding schemes made the audio actually sound like a tin can and a string.
It seemed that most stations didn’t really think anyone was listening so you got studio chatter, back haul, mics open for 20 minutes, all kinds of “inside radio” stuff going out on the stream.
I remember listening to an early stream from the radio home of the Lake Elsinore Storm minor league baseball team. The mics were hot on the stream 20 minutes before the pregame show started and grips in the booth were just hollering to whoever was listening – things like “Have Tommy throw two more large banners and some tape in the van!”
The air staff in the booth read their game updates on the stream during sponsor breaks. The mics stayed hot on the breakdown after the post and you could hear the interns making party plans.
All at 56 kbps on dial up – if your ISP didn’t kick you off for making the bandwidth needle spin
Ahh, the good lod days… 🙂
Wired DXer
I had a 2 channel ISDN at the time and lost many hours of sleep scouring the web for streams. I especially made sure to catch every Moscow Mail Bag on VOR.
Back in the mid to late nineties we distributed and sold more WebPhone and Net2Phone than anyone in the business. This was mostly due to being the only reseller who offered live tech support.
If you think the streams were crappy back then, you could imagine how bad VoIP was in the world of 56k.