Press Release

Live365 Holds Most Exclusive Internet Radio Content For Holiday Season

FOSTER CITY, CA, December 12, 2000 – Live365, the world's leading provider of Internet radio with over 23,000 stations, announces that users can now find over 200 Christmas and holiday-oriented streaming radio shows on Live365.com, all expressing varied interpretations of the holiday season. The holidays mean different things to different people, from Norman Rockwell nostalgia to a commercial nightmare that clouds the true meaning, and all can be found at Live365.com.

"What I love about the holiday stations on Live365 is that we have people from many different backgrounds setting up stations that reflect their own ideas of the holidays," said Betty Ray, Senior Editor at Live365. Live365 enables people around the world to create and broadcast holiday themed shows which may include world, cultural and religious holiday music as well as your classic holiday tunes. "If you were to listen to terrestrial (AM/FM) radio or go to a shopping mall, you would undoubtedly hear the same songs repeatedly, set up for the masses rather than the individual. During your holiday celebrations this year, as your family opens their brand new computer, Live365 enables everyone with the opportunity to instantly tune in to any number of internet radio stations that the whole family can enjoy" Ray Added.

Holiday stations have been created by everyone from grizzled grandpas to high school kids, dot-com executives to stay-at-home moms, CEO's, and of course, professional DJs. A sample of holiday streams include:

  • Women Out Loud Christmas (harobed) - female voices from Macy Gray to Amy Grant covering the classics as well as newer holiday tunes.
  • HillBilly Heaven Christmas (happy_holidaze) - country and holiday
  • Soulsville Christmas Classics for the Holidays (frankenstein) - soul and holiday n
  • Celtic Christmas (jiggelypuff) - holiday and classical Celtic tunes
  • Barbershop Christmas (spebsqsa2) - quartet songs brought to you by the Kansas-based "Society for the Preservation and Propagation of Barbershop Singing in the United States."
  • Gothic Christmas (gpsxmas) - holiday, gothic
  • Destination Doo-Wop (doowopradio) - 1950's and 60's holiday songs
  • Cool Yule! (funkyvillexmas) - Christmas lounge, blues, rock, swing.

About Live365

As the world's leading Internet Radio Provider, Live365 gives users free access to the largest selection of Internet radio stations worldwide. Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can choose from over 23,000 simultaneous broadcasts or create their own unique station using Live365's proprietary technology. With hundreds of new users signing on each day, Live365 currently features more radio stations than does the entire United States terrestrial radio broadcast network. Live365 also provides traditional radio stations, record companies, community groups and religious organizations the most affordable and easy solution to streaming audio over the Internet. Live365 has been named one of the "Top 6 Killer Apps" of streaming media by Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, one of the world's top international investment banks, in its May 2000 report "Internet, Broadband, and Enhanced TV." Founded in July 1999 in Foster City, CA, Live365 is the single largest broadcaster of streaming MP3 content on the Web. For more information, go to www.live365.com.