Internet radio (aka e-Radio) is an audio broadcasting service transmitted via the Internet. Broadcasting on the Internet with a search engine or a website that collects on-line radio broadcasts.
In 1996 GBS Radio Networks, founded by radio veteran Guy W. Giuliano, was one of the original RealAudio servers.
KPIG also began to transmit a live, 24/7 feed, in August 1995, first using Xing Streamworks and later switching to RealAudio. Bill Goldsmith, who was KPIG's Operations Manager & morning DJ at the time, and the one responsible for starting the webcast, now operates the popular Internet station Radio Paradise.
NetRadio (Net.radio, NetRadio Network) founded by Scott Bourne and radio veteran Scot Combs in 1994. Netradio began the first all internet radio network using RealAudio 1.0 in November of 1995. Starting out with four formats and expanding to more than a dozen two years after. The radio network became so popular it was included as a preset in RealAudio (aka RealMedia) 2.0+ players. NetRadio was the first radio station to maintain a continuous, live signal over the Internet. This first netcast was inducted into the Australia Sound and Film Archive. Today, NetFM is listened to by millions of people worldwide and in 2001 was the first Internet Station in the world to deploy a microsite (http://www.netfm.net/mobile) for access by mobile and other wireless devices.
In 1999, one of the Internet-only broadcaster case-studies for the 2002 Oxford Press publication Web Radio: Radio Production for Internet Streaming, by Chris Priestman.
All India Radio started live on the internet service on 25th February 1998. Millions of the listeners were able to listen AIR programmes.
In 1998, Australia's first internet radio station NetFM (http://www.netfm.net) commenced continuous netcasting after many years of test broadcasting since 1994. Initially broadcasting with Real Audio format, NetFM found that Windows Media Format delivered
