Radio Kesgrave (Closed)
Radio Kesgrave was a radio station operated for the local community streamed over the internet for people to listen to on their computers or on internet enabled radios and was managed and run by a team of young people.
The idea for this project was piloted at the 2006 Kesgrave Family day. For the whole day the event was streamed to local residents, included 2 live acts from local bands.
Funding for the project of around £8000 was secured from SPort and Recreation in Kesgrave (SPARK), Kesgrave Community Centre and locality budgets. This covered the cost of the equipment and a licence for two years.
Radio Kesgrave was launched on 24 Oct 07 at the opening of the Cedarwood Green play equipment.
Since then it has been transmitting live bands from events, pre-recorded band sessions and compilations from CDs.
In 2009 Radio Kesgrave was closed down as the original founders moved on to university and new people to take over didn't materialise. There was a plan to have a local FM version of Radio Kesgrave transmitting at the High School but this didn't happen either.
What is Internet Radio?
Internet radio is quite a recent discovery, coming about the same time as high speed broadband. Because people realised that they had more bandwidth they could stream audio down the connection. Internet Radio works in exactly the same way as normal FM or AM radio, except it is streamed over the internet and does have slightly less restrictions on what you can broadcast. It is now quite common for normal FM radio stations to have a streamed service so they can reach a wider audience. Internet radio can be accessed from all across the world, as it is on the internet. However due to licensing issues between countries sometimes the owners of the radio station sometimes limit which countries can listen by the IP address they are visiting from. The IP address is a number that is assigned to every computer when it goes onto the internet, so it can be tracked back to the country that the computer is in.
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