Wireless Internet Radio

• On November 7, 1994, WXYC (89.3 FM Chapel Hill, NC USA) became the first traditional radio station to announce broadcasting on the Internet

• WXYC familiar with an FM radio connected http://www.gracedigitalaudio.com/wireless-internet-radio-p-11.html to a entity at SunSite, later down pat as Ibiblio, running Cornell's CU-SeeMe software
• WXYC had begun evaluation broadcasts and bandwidth testing as preceding as August, 1994. WREK (91.1 FM, Atlanta, GA USA) started streaming on the same working day using their own custom software called CyberRadio1
• However, unlike WXYC, this was WREK's beta launch and the stream was not advertised until a later date.

In 2002, the Employ Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) system was initiated by the United States Congress in disposal to oversee decisions regarding royalty rates and terms, particularly in regard to digital circulating of audio. Many webcasters believed the 2002 proposed royalty anatomy to be overly burdensome and intended to disadvantage independent Internet-only stations. CARP was later phased out in favor of the Distribution Reform Act of 2004.