AOL Radio
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AOL Radio featuring XM is an online radio service offering original programming and select XM Satellite Radio channels.
Starting from inception in March 1996, the original company was called thedj.com, which featured over 60 different channels of uninterrupted streaming music. The product name was later changed to Spinner. On June 1, 1999, Spinner was purchased by AOL at the same time Winamp and SHOUTcast were also acquired. Both new organizations operated out of the same office in San Francisco.
On October 16, 2001, Spinner launched a version of their player called Radio@AOL for AOL Members and Radio@netscape for non-members. AOL introduced Broadband Radio@AOL, the first online radio service designed for AOL Broadband members on November 18, 2002. Spinner was retired in July of 2002. In the Spring of 2004, Radio@netscape client was metered to only allow two hours of usage per day.
Radio@AOL changed its name to AOL Radio to align itself with the AOL Music branding. In July 2005, a web version of AOL Radio was introduced for non-members with unlimited listening. At the end of 2005, Radio@Netscape was officially retired.
The AOL Radio Web Player is compatible with Windows 2000/XP, Internet Explorer 5.5+, Netscape 7.1+, AOL 7.0+, and Firefox 1.0+. Listeners can connect to AOL Radio through the web (http://aol.com, http://aolradio.com or http://aolmusic.com), AOL Client, Windows Media Center Edition, and AOL Radio for Mac. AOL Radio is now also available through the AOL Instant Messenger service (aim.com), and Winamp (winamp.com).
