FOSTER CITY, Calif., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Live365.com, the world's largest Internet broadcasting community, today announces surpassing the 10,000 mark for simultaneous broadcasts. With stations originating from more than sixty countries, Live365.com's directory of Internet radio stations is the largest and most diverse on the net. There were well over one million unique visitors to Live365.com in May 2000.

Based on current growth trends, Live365.com will meet and surpass the number of terrestrial broadcasters in the U.S. in approximately five weeks. "To put some perspective on this, the first commercial radio broadcaster, KDKA, launched in Pittsburgh in 1920. It has taken the broadcasting industry eighty years to build out the current radio broadcasting infrastructure. We have created an equivalent in 9 months. This is very exciting," said Live365.com Chief Technology Officer, Peter Rothman.

Rothman is not the only one excited about the vast implications of Live365.com's service. In its May 2000 report entitled "Internet, Broadband and Enhanced TV," Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, one of the world's leading international investment banks, listed Live365.com as one of the "Top 6 Killer Apps" of streaming media.

Sandy Skeie, music industry veteran and Executive Director at Gavin, one of the most respected national radio and music trade publications, noted "Live365.com is proving to be a leading player in the Internet broadcasting space and offers a compelling service which is bound to have a vast impact on the way people create and consume broadcast media."

Susan Swan of Nothing Records notes, "Live365.com provides a dynamic new way to experience music and -- from a label perspective -- an incredible platform to present music to a highly interactive, somewhat renegade listener."

Tim O'Brien, manager of Universal recording artists Stroke9, said "Live365.com's service has enabled me to easily create a very sticky and personalized application which can be found on Stroke9's website. Building a lasting relationship between fans and artists is always key. Broadcasting personalized, band member channels is a great tool to aid in this."

Live365.com is the leading global broadcasting Internet community for individuals and performers to create, broadcast and listen to personal Internet radio stations. Providing free tools and bandwidth necessary to broadcast, Live365.com allows anyone with a computer to create there own "station" using personally selected content. The site has been lauded as the breakthrough product for disk jockeys, music-lovers, aspiring talk show hosts, comedians and signed and unsigned artists, as well as listeners. http://www.Live365.com is the single largest broadcaster of streaming MP3 audio content on the web. Live365.com launched in July 1999 and is headquartered in Foster City, California.