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IMPORTANT: This website will go silent on November 19, 2016 due to lack of interest. Thanks for stopping by!
Where did we begin....
IdahosCast.Com began broadcasting from Boise, Idaho in 1999, in the first to provide information and news and more to online users within Idaho, and also as an online source to the users of the #IdahosBest chat channel using the Undernet IRC chat network.
And, with the beginnings of a small Internet radio program called SAM (Simple Audio Manager) v1.3, and with some bandwidth and space provided by Velocitus Internet Service (we had DSL services with different IP addresses to play our streams). We were station number 25 that came on the air in 1999, and began to play programming during the daytime in a service called IdahosCast at Work, in which we provided news from the Worldwide Internet Radio Network on the hour, and provided music throughout the day, and then IdahosCast went off at night, because it was shared with my previous computer.. hehe..
In the beginning, Velocitus was providing just a dynamic IP for the programming, which didn't work very well, so I decided to buy a 5 pack of static IP's from Velocitus, and so I owned IP addresses 216.222.6.41 through 216.222.6.46, with the "station box" located at 216.222.6.45, even to this day, you can still see the owned IP addresses via NSLookup:
DNS server handling your query: localhost * Intel Pentium III Processor running at 800Mhz * 512 MB RAM * 80 GB Hard Drive * and the DSL service, pipe provided by Qwest, ISP provided by Velocitus Internet Services.
IdahosCast.Com grew in reputation, and national attraction!
IdahosCast.Com began expanding, and providing live call-in shows from the Internet in 2001, starting with Andy Graham's Computer Beat, an online show from a computer technician in Kansas, and also broadcasted an live radio show from the USA Radio Network called Mick Williams CyberLine, "The Planet is Listening", and began to be a regular visitor of that radio program, being online from 8pm-11pm live through IdahosCast.Com.
And then, we began to provide local programming. IdahosCast.Com hosted an original 80's program, called Channel Z Radio, hosted by Cale Guthmiller, and provided 2 hours of 80's music, and songs that you couldn't hear from anywhere else. Hopefully will be able to provide some excerpts of Channel Z here on this history page.
The fall of IdahosCast.Com...
Well, all good things come to an end, and in April of 2002, the majority of the Internet radio stations, including IdahosCast.Com, went silent: http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/042902/index.shtml to protest the legislation from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) that wanted to charge owners of Internet radio stations hundreds of dollars a month to continue to play their music, and, in the end, IdahosCast.Com decided on June 20th, 2002 to pull the plug and silence it's stream, ending a 3 year run of IdahosBest Shoutcast Radio. The information on the royalties that were approved are at: http://www.copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates_final.html and the minimum cost for IdahosCast.Com would be about $650.00/month, and it was not worth it.
IdahosCast.com Internet Radio Show
After the end of IdahosCast.Com, it was time to do something new, so decided to put together the IdahosCast.Com Internet Radio Show, which a snapshot of the page is available here: http://web.archive.org/web/20030427152035/idc.homielive.us/ and provided updates until July of 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20030726131110/idc.homielive.us/ and then, after no new ideas and inability to pay for the domain, the domain expired.
Other people wanted IdahosCast.Com
Lots of spammers wanted IdahosCast.Com for advertisements and more, and for the last 4 years, it was an issue to get the domain back, but, in November of 2007, after years of trying to get the domain back, it was re-purchased, and now it is online again!
So, now what...
Well, I will be able to provide some podcasts of computer news, and also will be providing those podcasts to iTunes and other areas, and also provide some other programming in time.
Thanks for visiting, and more to come. |
