Truely Amazing! Not Radio At All!
SHOUT! Radio Services, a major sponsor of VilleRadio.com and MafiaConnections.net, were getting ready to announce the release of ACN (All Countryfied Network) and just out of couriosity I decided to listen to local Louisville Radio Stations on the Internet. The major player in the market is WAMZ with their comercial free Country Music Stream.
I was truely amazed at what I found. They have a GREAT website with tons of information and I was mezmerised by the flash presentations. I thought to myself, why in the world would SHOUT even dare to challenge a presence as huge as the Clear Channel owned WAMZ? Are they out of their minds?
In my excitement I decided to have a listen to their stream and clicked on the listen link and actually had all my questions answered at one time. LOL. The first thing I noticed was they only stream at 32kbps, which is very low quality, but allows them more listeners at one time. Ok, I can agree with that philosphy and figured with the low bandwidth stream I would get a worry free listening experience. I turned on their player and my gosh, the buffering was horrible! I thought maybe it was just a busy time of night so I left the site to return after midnight for a final test. Would you believe I got the buffering again at 2:00 AM?
Why would a company the size of Clear Channel allow their network to be aired in such crappy quality? Don’t they know Internet Radio is the wave of the future?
Well, I clicked on the link in the SRS Toolbar for their new CM Station. Streaming in digital quality at 128kbps, it was crystal clear, commercial free and just amazing quality! SRS is still building the station but I gotta tell ya, it is awesome just the way it is.
I contacted the Network Staff at SRS to get a few questions answered. I spoke with KJ who gave me some great insight into what their network is really about. I was Truely Amazed at what he had to say.
