Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Smooth Radio "hacked"

Nomad has been trying to connect to the Smooth radio feed (102.2 FM). After a bit of work he eventually found this address on their website.

http://streaming.gmgradio.com/smoothradiolondon.asx

The address was accompanied by this warning "Please note that we only allow Wi-Fi Radios to connect through this address". How can they tell? Anyway it seems to work when the address is plugged in to TVersity.

Why would a radio station want to restrict peoples ability to listen? Surely they need listeners in order to attract advertisers. Perhaps we are missing the point and there is an entirely new business model for radio stations? Anyone care to enlighten us.

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