April 1, 1997

Internet On-Ramp: Listeners tune in, log on to Internet radio stations

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Listen up, people.

Streaming audio, or the ability to listen to a continuous stream of audio over the Internet, has become reality.

If you have a 28.8 speed or faster modem and Progressive Networks’ Real Audio 3.0 Player, you can listen, and if you’re in an office with a T1 connection or better, you can hear almost compact-disk-quality sound right out of your computer’s speakers.

There are certainly no lack of sites to listen to audio on the Internet. Record-company sites, trade-show and conference sites, even corporate public-relations sites with pre-recorded news conferences allow users to hear what they want…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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