From Wendy Boswell,
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Can't find anything good to listen to on your local radio stations? No problem - go to the Web and you'll be able to find no end to the great free online radio stations that you can find. Here are just a few:

• PublicRadioFan.com: PublicRadioFan is the best site on the Web to find a public radio station, anywhere in the world. There's lots of different ways you can search for a free online radio station, including by location, format and language, or programs by name.
• Pandora, the Music Genome Project: Pandora lets you create radio stations, and you guide what music is coming up. Don't like that song that's playing? You "guide" Pandora and it humbly promises that that song will never be played again.
• Classical Music Radio: I am a HUGE classical music fan; in fact, while I'm working I listen to various classical music radio stations online with my Apple Quicktime player. Here's a few great classical music sites that you can use to listen to classical music, find a good classical music radio station, or learn more about classical music history.
• Yahoo Podcasts: A podcast is nothing more than an audio recording, a radio show, but online instead of on your radio. Anybody can record a podcast. Yahoo's podcast search gives you the tools to find these podcasts.
• IT Conversations: Listen to talk shows - but not just any talk shows,these are technology Super Geek talk shows!
• Last.fm: "Join the social music revolution at Last.fm. It's fun, it's free, it's all about the music."
• Live365.com: literally thousands of radio stations here.
• RadioLovers.com: A wonderful niche site full of old time radio shows.
• Radio-Locator.com: Awesome - a radio station search engine.
• BBC Radio Streams: a guide to various BBC radio streams.
• Podcasts of non-commercial and public radio shows: commercial radio shows in podcast format.
• Windows Radio: a guide to Windows Media radio stations.
• AccuRadio: "AccuRadio is the world's leading independent, multichannel Internet radio station, featuring over 280 channels and subchannels of really cool music."
• Yahoo Launchcast Radio: lots of radio stations here, also gives you the option of modifying your own radio station and sharing it with friends.
• NPR Podcast Directory: almost 300 NPR podcasts indexed at the time of this writing.
• Real Radio Guide: a quick look at Real's radio stations.
• RadioTime: "RadioTime combines a web-based personalized RadioGuide™ of radio programs and stations with software to listen live or easily transform radio programming into MP3 files."
• RadioFreeWorld: Internet radio stations from all over the world.
• ShoutCast: thousands of radio stations, all over the world, lots of pretty eclectic stuff to be found here.
• Webmaster Radio: "WebmasterRadio.FM offers an all-star line up of radio shows hosted by the most respected names in the Internet business world."
• RadioTower: an index of thousands of radio stations, one of the first radio station directories on the Web.
• AOL Radio: free online radio stations featuring XM radio.
• Pandia Online Radio Station Search: listings of thousands of online radio stations.

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