Edited/Distributed by HURINet - The Human Rights Information Network --------------------------------------------------------------------- ## author : media@web.net ## date : 25.10.99 --------------------------------------------------------------------- World Wide Web's First Public Radio Station; The Internet Goes High-Brow ALBANY, N.Y., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/NEWSdesk -- Now you can click-on as well as tune-in. The world's first web-based public radio station, ThePublicRadioStation.com, (http://www.thepublicradiostation.com) is now on- line and offering a variety of public radio programming from across the nation and around the world. ThePublicRadioStation.com is programmed and operated by WAMC/Northeast Public Radio with web design, programming and hosting by BiznessOnline.com, (Nasdaq: BIZZ) a northeast provider of Internet and Web application services. The service offers streaming audio of some of the best public radio in the world. Whether a listener is craving news and features from the Netherlands, a rock and roll history program out of Woodstock, NY, or an exploration of Broadway shows, ThePublicRadioStation.com has something for everyone. "With the increased use of the Internet, the rules are changing for the different media outlets," said Mark E. Munro, CEO of BiznessOnline.com. "We are currently working with many radio, television and print media companies, helping them to utilize the Internet as an extension of their medium." The programming is scheduled, so a listener always knows when their favorite show is live on-line. However, in many cases, if a listener misses a show they can simply click-on that program and listen to an archived show. ThePublicRadioStation.com also offers an eclectic mix of programming, including: a show focusing on jazz around the world, a vocabulary feature, Consumer Reports radio broadcast, folk music, a show focusing on womens' issues, a program about the latest news from the legal world and a show about the environment. BiznessOnline.com is a leading regional provider of Internet and Web Application services to small and medium sized businesses and residential accounts in underserved, secondary markets in the Northeastern US. The company offers bundled, tier-1 network broadband services via DSL, Frame Relay, and T-1 and T-3, new web media and e-commerce development, web hosting and dial-up services. BiznessOnline.com's corporate offices are located in Wall, NJ and the Company can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.biznessonline.com. SOURCE BiznessOnline.com Web site: http://www.biznessonline.com CONTACT: Lorin Beller of BiznessOnline.com, +1 518-724-5040; or Joe DePlasco or Patrick Hannan, +1 212-685-4300, both of Dan Klores Associates, Inc., for BiznessOnline.com IN: MLM ---------------------------------- Send mail for the 'huridocs-tech' list to 'huridocs-tech@hrea.org'. Mail administrative requests to 'majordomo@hrea.org'. For additional assistance, send mail to: 'owner-huridocs-tech@hrea.org'. Archives of previous messages posted to the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/huridocs-tech/markup/maillist.html
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