There are many myths and rumors that you may have heard, or concerns you may have about starting an internet radio station. These are the 3 biggest questions, we see coming up time and time again on our pre-sales desk. These are as follows:

1. 1. Do I need a whole bunch of expensive studio equipment to start webcasting?
2. 2. How about licensing? Are licenses expensive?
3. 3. Finally, do I need to be some kind of web genius in order to setup a website?

If these concerns are preventing you from starting an internet radio station, then don’t let them! We’ve put together a little video to answer your questions and address these myths.

For more information about creating your own radio station online, you can visit our sister site here.

Our relocation will involve moving our offices to a larger space which will allow our business to expand and continue to improve. We have chosen a city centre based location, which is right in the heart of Manchester’s Millennium Quarter. We will be based in Pleer House, a character building which has been recently refurbished to provide cutting edge office space. It is surrounded by some of Manchesters recent regeneration projects, including Urbis, Printworks, Manchester Cathedral, The Triangle and Selfridges.

Pleer House

Client Manager & Founder of Wavestreaming, James Mulvany said: “I’m pleased that we’ve been able to grow steadily over the past few years and we will continue to do so from our new location in Manchester. Being based in a major UK city will allow us to thrive, Manchester is an exciting place to work and provides an exciting, diverse and cultured environment. It will also let us connect more easily with our clients and provides the added benefit of direct transport links to other UK cities, including London.”

The move will not impact on customers services’ in any way, as all of our servers are hosted remotely in professional datacentre environments.

We hope you enjoy the new product!

Our sales phone line will be unavailable during this time. However, technical support and sales will continue to operate on reduced hours throughout the Christmas period via email. This simply means that if your query isn’t urgent, we may take a little longer than usual to respond.

If you need to contact us, please don’t hesitate to get in touch via our ticket desk – you can do this via the contact form on the Wavestreaming site.

Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2010!

Learn How To Start An Internet Radio Station today!

The great news is, you don’t even have to be a Wavestreaming customer to take advantage of this – it is open and free to everyone! Just visit the following page to get started;
http://www.wavestreaming.com/servers/flash-streaming/shoutcast-player.php

The great thing about Adobe Flash is that it can play MP3 streams, and is very widely compatible. You’ll be hard pushed to find someone who doesn’t have flash on their computer and our SHOUTcast Flash Player will work on nearly all browsers and operating systems, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, on both Windows XP & Vista plus on Mac OSX, even on Linux PC’s!

Previously SHOUTcast radio stations often depended on embedded Windows Media Player to add their stream directly onto the website, this of course caused issues with non-windows users. Now, using our Flash player – the stream can be played on almost any system.

We offer a selection of over 20 skins to choose from. These are from simple black & white themed through to more adventurous colours to suit any website. Here are just a few of the skins available;

Basic Skin Preview

More exciting skin

Wide Selection of Stylish Themes

To grab your player today, just visit our main site;

www.wavestreaming.com/servers/flash-streaming/shoutcast-player.php

If you are a radio station, or run any other website and are in need of a high quality website hosting solution, Wavestreaming should be your first port of call for web hosting.

All of our website hosting packages come with industry leading cPanel control panel, which gives full control over all aspects of your hosting account, including email, domain functions, statistics and much more.

We also include a whole range of additional features, including PHP & MySQL for development and a large selection of auto-install web applications (scripts) such as WordPress for Blogs and PHPBB Forum system.

Three packages are available to cater for small to medium websites at a range of monthly and yearly pricing structures. Custom solutions can also be created for larger sites – quotes available on request.

For more information, see our web hosting section;

www.wavestreaming.com/servers/web-hosting/

I’m quite happy that our new website is almost ready! I’d like to thank Steve, our web services manager & Simon North for their excellent skills in producing this site! I had a chat with Steve earlier today about what is to come – of course, here is the video of our discussion for you to watch on YouTube…

Its almost ready to be launched and we will be putting the brand new Wavestreaming.com LIVE on Monday 19th January 2009!

If you haven’t already seen, we have a couple of sneak preview images available for you to see what its going to look like!

New Wavestreaming Website - SHOUTcast Page

New Wavestreaming Website - Video Tutorials Page

As mentioned – the new site will be live next Monday (19th Jan) so be sure to go and check it out!

Our new Website is launching on www.wavestreaming.com/ in the next week or so! Keep your eyes peeled!