How to Advertise Subscriptions Sponsor Directory Site Search Updated every Friday E-mail this story to a friend. Print text version. Maybe you re in the mood for the breathless sound of Bolivian reed flutes. Then it s time to tune into Internet radio, which is radio broadcast as data over the Internet. With thousands of stations worldwide to choose from, Internet radio is a gold mine of popular and obscure music and other content all just a few clicks away.
News junkies can use it to get the latest on breaking stories from radio stations around the globe.
Talk addicts will find hours of chatter devoted to golf , gardening, geopolitics and gravimetry. But because Internet radio doesn t require an airborne signal, distance is not an issue so you can pick up anyone who s broadcasting online from Alabama to Zimbabwe. We were getting listeners in from Mexico to China on our Webcast, said Jim Bezak of WSNY in Columbus, Ohio. What s more, Internet radio isn t regulated so anyone can do it. The Internet really lowers the barriers of entry into radio, said Tom Streeter, director of the Streaming Media Project at the University of Cincinnati.