Online radio is an audio service through which the normal radio stations which we hear through Radio receiver devices can be transmitted over internet. Internet-only radio stations aren’t relied on the terrestrial radio stations. Internet Radio is also called as the streaming radio as it involves streaming media which provides is listeners a continuous stream of audio signal which can’t be paused or replayed.
Mostly these radio stations can be listened by users around the globe, i.e. an Australian user can listen to American radio stations. Due to advertising issues and music licensing few major radio stations are restricted to be broadcasted only in their countries.
Streaming radio’s offer many interesting services like the traditional radio services, few of their interesting services are music of various genres, news, talk and sports. It has been proven by a survey which was conducted in the year 2007 that 19 percentages of US customers who are of age 12 and above likes and uses the internet radio stations.
Another survey which was conducted in the year 2008 shows that 13% of the entire United States population listens to web-based radios. These surveys indicate the popularity and the interest of people towards online radio. http://nusaradio.com/ is a place where a user can listen to online radios and they also offer free online radio html code for their users if they need them.
This website has many cool features like the radio can be played on a person’s Facebook’s timeline or wall as such as like the YouTube video’s. Users can select the station which wants to listen by browsing through the Top Stations / New Stations / Radio Genres / Browse by Country lists which are available on the left hand side in their website. That is a social networking enabled site so people can follow that website in twitter and Google+. Users can also search for radio stations by using the search tab that they had provided at the top of their website.