The latest group to be plagued by ransomware was none other than one of the largest media outlets in the United States, Sinclair Broadcast Group (NASDAQ: NGBI). This led to massive outages across their TV stations on October 16th and a resulting stock plunge shortly after. Initially, it was reporte...
SHOUTcast users have been in disarray in the past 24 hours over stream dropouts with their RMO service. A forum post on the Winamp/SHOUTcast forums details several users having dropouts and server connection issues, some spanning several hours. Broadcasting World investigations, along with inditial...
Recently, Stream Licensing users have been reporting issues with the legacy popup player, citing that it shows a MySQL socket error. The error shows as follows: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) MySQL is a database server used to store d...
Streamlicensing clients woke up to a startling email from ASCAP this morning claiming that Streamlicensing breached their contract agreement and have failed to to respond to emails and calls regarding the issue. This has left Streamlicensing clients in the dark over whether their monthly paymen...
Live365, one of the first companies in online radio, announced today that they will be publicly opening broadcaster sign-ups. Users can create a legal internet radio station in a matter of minutes by joining Live365. Additionally, a new iOS app is now available to listeners. In January 2016, Live36...
The Radio Music License Committee and ASCAP have inked a new five-year agreement through 2021 that sets the rates payable by over 10,000 radio stations to publicly perform more than 10.5 million musical works in the ASCAP repertory. RMLC Chairman Ed Christian said the agreement demonstrates how the ...
The European Radio Show in Paris next month will feature the official launch of the dot radio domain name. Responsibility for administering the domain name extension was delegated to the EBU by the top domain name regulatory authority, ICANN, on 21 July 2016. When requesting a dot-radio domain nam...
Reports of Google Chrome users being unable to connect to SHOUTcast Version 1 streams have surfaced from the Broadcasting World Forums and Google Chrome Help Forum today. The reports have risen with the release of Chrome Version 55 this week as it appears that the most recent updates have rendered ...
Broadcast Launch is set to release it's first product on January 1st 2017. The long anticipated launch is less than 30 days away after a long 9 months of being under d`evelopment. The first product is named SMSFetch and allow you to receive SMS messages from over 19 countries around the world....
In a move, most likely related to the Sony Lawsuit, Radionomy has blocked many listeners from tuning into stations via the TuneIn App. In a 64 page letter sent to TuneIn from Sony Music Entertainment, it is stated that all of the listed Radionomy stations are infringing upon it's rights. It specific...
