Radio Paradise/App

Anyone else listen to this free streaming station? I was introduced to it recently and love it. It’s a good mix of everything. Listener supported, no commercials and the DJs break in every so often. They do a great job of blending totally different genres together back to back. You can choose high quality streams and skip songs.

I have to warn you that if you happen to land on a “world music” song you’ll have to hang in there. It’s worth it. I’ve had people walk in my office when one of those songs happens to be on and they think I’ve changed religions. Haha.

“RP has four curated playlists: Rock Mix, emphasizing modern and classic rock; World/Etc Mix, emphasizing world and electronic music; Mellow Mix, emphasizing songs with a more relaxing tone; and Main Mix, combining the three. A little jazz and classical music is sometimes heard as well. Detailed information about the playlists is available on the website but they can only be listened to live on the stream. There is limited DJ commentary, with sets that can go on for hours without interruption.

The station was started in February 2000 by Bill Goldsmith and his wife Rebecca Goldsmith. It was originally operated from their home in Paradise, California, from which the station derives its name. The station had relocated to the Borrego Valley (east of San Diego, California) in 2016, before the town of Paradise was largely destroyed by the Camp Fire in November 2018.

Bill has been a DJ at various stations (including KPIG, KFAT, KLRB, WCAS, and KPOI) since 1971, and has also been 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, called "The Revolution In Radio".”



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