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“The radical ways in which the Internet has changed all traditional media, not least radio, challenged consumption models so that any and all media can now be accessed by anyone and anywhere in the world instantly. Changes in society so powerful that even reluctant media empires would eventually be forced to adapt and meet the new ways in which their consumers wanted to access their entertainment choices.”

- Junious Ricardo Stanton

A Brief History of Internet Radio by Jamie Ashbrook https://radio.co/blog/a-briefhistory-of-internet-radio

Since 2000 I have been involved in Internet radio. I was a pioneer in the talk format on Internet radio. I started with Don Rojas on his extremely popular The Black World Today Website. I helped start a Black talk channel on his platform. The Internet was rapidly changing, and we, along with several others, were part of that change, using it to entertain and inform Black folks; but we soon discovered we were broadcasting to the world.

Don Rojas was the founder of The Black World Today, he lived in a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. At first, the Internet was mainly text, but as the technology evolved, Don began streaming music. He had about twenty channels of varying music genres: Jazz, Blues, R&B, Afrobeat, Reggae, etc. Unbeknownst to me, they were posting my Column Positively Black, which at that time was being syndicated by the National Newspaper Publishing Association (NNPA) to two hundred Black newspapers around the country on the Website.