• On November 7, 1994, WXYC (89.3 FM Chapel Hill, NC USA) became the first traditional radio station to announce Internet Radio broadcasting on the Internet

• WXYC given to an FM radio connected to a arrangement at SunSite, later known as Ibiblio, running Cornell's CU-SeeMe software
• WXYC had begun crack broadcasts and bandwidth testing as antiquated as August, 1994. WREK (91.1 FM, Atlanta, GA USA) started streaming on the same day using their own custom software called CyberRadio1
• However, unlike WXYC, this was WREK's beta launch and the stream was not advertised until a later date.

On May 1, 2007, the United States Hog Royalty Board approved a rate accession in the royalties payable to performers of recorded works broadcast on the internet. This was the result of a two academic grade proceeding, with dozens of witnesses and hundreds of documents from over twenty distant parties, including large and small webcasters, NPR, college stations, and SoundExchange. If enforced, this outcome will undermine the craft models of multitudinous Internet radio stations, which had previously relied on the rate of $0.000768 per song that had been unchanged from 1998-2005. These rules were scheduled to go into effect on May 1, 2007, with the first due date being July 15, 2007, and apply retroactively to January 1, 2006.