Paradise Radio

Radio Paradise is a listener-sponsored Internet radio station that identifies itself as an "eclectic online rock radio" station. The channel differs from most FM channels and other Internet stations in that the music played is not limited to a specific genre, instead representing great variety. Radio Paradise plays different styles of pop and rock music, but occasionally other genres from jazz to classical to electronic music and world music. All of the styles are DJ-mixed. Radio Paradise is a for-profit business. It does not broadcast commercials, but is financially supported through donations.The station was started in February 2000 by Bill Goldsmith and his wife Rebecca Goldsmith. It is operated from Paradise, California, from which it derives its name. Bill has been a DJ at various stations (including KPIG, KFAT, KLRB, WCAS, and KPOI) since 1971, as well as working as a radio station manager, and a radio & TV engineer. In August 1995 Goldsmith inaugurated the world's first full-time webcast at KPIG using Xing Streamworks software.Radio Paradise was featured in a TIME magazine article of April 11, 2004 on "The Revolution In Radio" April 2006 introduced the Listeners World Map, showing the numbers and locations of listeners across the world.In June 2006 Radio Paradise began using Octoshape for its 192 kbit/s stream.In September 2006 Radio Paradise began a 128 kbit/s AAC+ stream.