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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Internet radio |
Founded | 1999 |
Headquarters | Denver, Colorado |
Key people | Ari Shohat ( CEO) |
Website |
www |
DI.FM (formerly known as Digitally Imported) is an Internet radio broadcaster consisting of over 90 channels dedicated to electronic music, such as house, trance, techno, drum and bass, and dubstep. [1] [2] DI.FM broadcasts handpicked selections consisting of classic, new and up-and-coming hits, as well as weekly and monthly mixed shows from professional DJs. It was founded in December 1999 as a hobby project by Ari Shohat in his Binghamton University dorm room and was one of the first Internet radio stations. [3] [4] [5] [6] It has often been listed as one of the top internet radio stations. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
During the 2000s, DI.FM participated in a number of protests against high royalty fees for Internet radio. [12] [13] [14] In July 2009, Digitally Imported, radioIO and AccuRadio reached a revenue-sharing deal with royalty collector SoundExchange securing music rights. [15] [16] [17] It also licenses out its own proprietary streaming platform to power other internet radio sites such as RadioTunes (formerly sky.fm [18]), [19] JazzRadio, [20] RockRadio, [21] ClassicalRadio [22] and ZenRadio. [23]
Source: [24]
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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Internet radio |
Founded | 1999 |
Headquarters | Denver, Colorado |
Key people | Ari Shohat ( CEO) |
Website |
www |
DI.FM (formerly known as Digitally Imported) is an Internet radio broadcaster consisting of over 90 channels dedicated to electronic music, such as house, trance, techno, drum and bass, and dubstep. [1] [2] DI.FM broadcasts handpicked selections consisting of classic, new and up-and-coming hits, as well as weekly and monthly mixed shows from professional DJs. It was founded in December 1999 as a hobby project by Ari Shohat in his Binghamton University dorm room and was one of the first Internet radio stations. [3] [4] [5] [6] It has often been listed as one of the top internet radio stations. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
During the 2000s, DI.FM participated in a number of protests against high royalty fees for Internet radio. [12] [13] [14] In July 2009, Digitally Imported, radioIO and AccuRadio reached a revenue-sharing deal with royalty collector SoundExchange securing music rights. [15] [16] [17] It also licenses out its own proprietary streaming platform to power other internet radio sites such as RadioTunes (formerly sky.fm [18]), [19] JazzRadio, [20] RockRadio, [21] ClassicalRadio [22] and ZenRadio. [23]
Source: [24]