Shoefm

Infobox Radio station


name = ShoeFM
area = International
slogan = Tune Into The Shoe!
airdate = April 20, 2006
port base = :10068
format = Mp3
owner = MJS-Enterprises
website = www.Shoefm.com

ShoeFM is an online radio station broadcasting from Melbourne, Australia. ShoeFM is a trademark of MJS-Enterprise. Its age target is 13 to 30 year olds.

History

ShoeFM was created on April 9 2006 by Matthew Solomon also currently station manager. The first broadcast was 10 minutes late on air due to technical difficulties in the connection and at that point there was no more than 3 shows on the time table. The station was originally run off a simple program with one microphone and an internet connection all of which connected to the server and broadcasted what was (back then) a terrible quality live sound of talking and prechosen music. THe first six months weren't easy as people were not at all used to the ieda of internet radio and didn't much see the point. The original idea of the station was to target those who would go on there computer at the end of the day, browse the internet and go on messenger. It's an easy listening station that can be tuned into via the site itself or opened in a range of media players that people could listen to when they are chatting on MSN or browsing the internet, something simple with easy music and relaxed hosts.

Broadcasting

ShoeFM broadcasts through Shoutcast. ShoeFM can hold a steady 1000 listeners on its server. The streams, at highest, run at 80 kbit/s, so those without at least a broadband connection are not able to listen without a very poor quality status.

ShoeFM's stream are done on server address ports, and as these ports can be overcrowded and under managed the actual stream is hosted on a bought server stream.

Shows

External links

* [http://www.shoefm.com ShoeFM Homepage]
*myspace|shoefm