History
The station was started in February 2000 by Bill Goldsmith and his wife Rebecca Goldsmith. It is operated from their home in Paradise, California, from which it derives its name. Bill has been a DJ at various stations (including KPIG, KFAT, KLRB, WCAS, and KPOI) since 1971, as well as working as a radio station manager, and a radio & TV engineer. In August 1995 Goldsmith inaugurated the world's first full-time webcast at KPIG using Xing Streamworks software.
Radio Paradise was featured in a TIME magazine article of April 11, 2004 on "The Revolution In Radio".
April 2006, RP introduced the Listeners World Map, showing the numbers and locations of listeners across the world.
In June 2006 Radio Paradise began trial runs of Octoshape for its 192 kbit/s MP3 stream; currently it is available via standard Shoutcast.
In September 2006, Radio Paradise began a 128 kbit/s AAC+ stream.
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