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Early commercial broadcasts in the traditional radio format happen to be happening since the 1920s. The very first live internet exclusive radio broadcast was Seattle based rock group Sky Cries Mary and took place on the 10th November 1994. It had been broadcast by Starwave a digital media launch of Paul Allen.

Throughout the same month, only a week later the Rolling Stones had a concert which was the "first major cyberspace multicast concert."

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Also throughout the same month WXYC were the first traditional radio station to announce broadcasting on the internet. WXYC had begun testing bandwidth and broadcasting in August 1994. On the day that WREK using CyberRadio1 software started streaming their beta launch and advertising of their stream didn't happen until later on.

In 1995 a totally free download called RealAudio was released by Progressive Networks. It was reported by Time magazine that it took "advantage from the latest advances in digital compression" and delivered "AM radio-quality sound in so-called real time." Shortly after Nullsoft and Microsoft released free downloads of audio players with streaming capabilities. More and more online r / c began to shoot up as audio player software be easily available.

One of the earliest American 24-7 internet r / c licensed by BMI and ASCAP was Sonicwave.com, that was created by Edward Lyman.

Within the same year Europe's first radio station to broadcast its traditional program on the web entirely was Virgin Radio working in london. It had been available Twenty-four hours a day and was a live form of its FM signal.

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After the 1990s internet radio began to attract huge investor and media attention. In the United States in 1998 Broadcast.com set an archive inside it initial public stock offering for the largest jump in price available offerings. The sale price was $18, whereas the opening price for shares was $68 when trading opened on the first day. It was more surprising considering that the company was losing money at that time and they themselves had produced in one of their prospectuses they didn't expect that tot change anytime soon. Around the 20th July 1999 Yahoo bought the organization for $5.7 billion.

In 1998 in Sydney, Australia NetFM's The Vinyl Lounge (longest running internet radio show) started net casting.

After 2000 stream quality improved as bandwidth became cheaper now most stations stream somewhere between 64 kilobits per second and 128 kilobits per second that is close to being CD quality radio.