"The Bee" versus the Internet

[Darth_vader]

Does anybody know of any "off-air" or unofficial streams of WBEB that exist on the Internet, since they don't seem to have one of their own? (No FLash players, Live-365 or Real Audio, please; direct stream URLs only, if possible.) Some of us curious young "outsiders" who can't make the trip and only know the station from reel to reel tapes recorded by our Grandparents in the early '70s would certainly enjoy hearing how far good ol' 'DVR has come during the last 40-some years!

 

[Darth_vader]

Nobody? Anybody at all? Show of hands?

 

[RBRadioWaves]

I think they pulled their stream due to licensing issues. The fact they are an independent broadcaster does not really help them.

 

[Darth_vader]

Yeah, that seems to be the consensus on the Wiki.

An "off-air" stream is one whose audio is sourced from the output of an actual radio set itself tuned to the station in question, usually operating underground by some independent individual or third-party not connected to the station at all as a hobby or a protest. Some stations actually do use this method officially in the absence of direct board output to the stream encoder, especially if they're operating on the ultra-cheap, and some sites use this as the very basis of their existence (think Global Tuners*.)

I'm hoping someone "out there" is doing this with 'BEB. Startpage doesn't seem to come up with anything useful, though.

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*It's too bad someone in Philly hasn't stuck their F1HD on G-T yet. Sure would solve a lot of problems......