Digitally Imported

Digitally Imported, Inc.

Type	Corporation
Industry	Internet radio
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Denver, CO
Key people	Ari Shohat, Founder & CEO
Website	http://www.di.fm/

Digitally Imported (DI or DI Radio) is an Internet radio broadcaster playing various types of electronic music including house, trance, progressive, techno, eurodance, drum and bass, and dubstep, across 91 hand curated channels.^[1][2] It was founded in December 1999 as a hobby project by Ari Shohat in his Binghamton University dorm room and was one of the first Internet radio stations.^[3][4][5][6] It has often been listed as one of the top electronic dance music radio stations online^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]} and was awarded Best Global Radio Station at the International Dance Music Awards in March 2010.^[13] It also offers streaming radio services of other, non-electronic dance music genres  — such as pop hits, jazz and rock — across nearly 300 channels through its sister networks, RadioTunes,^[14] JAZZRADIO,^[15] ROCKRADIO,^[16] and ClassicalRadio.^[17]

Digitally Imported participated in Day of Silence protests against high royalty fees for Internet radio in 2002 and 2007.^[18][19] In July 2009, Digitally Imported, radioIO and AccuRadio reached a revenue-sharing deal with royalty collector SoundExchange securing music rights.^[20][21][22]

On August 29, 2014, the company rebranded SKY.FM as RadioTunes.^[23]

Channels

Digitally Imported[1]	RadioTunes[14]	ROCKRADIO[16]	JAZZRADIO[15]	ClassicalRadio[17]
00's Club Hits Ambient Atmospheric Breaks Bass & Jackin' House Bassline Big Beat Big Room House Breaks ChillHop Chillout Chillout Dreams Chillstep Chill & Tropical House Classic EuroDance Classic EuroDisco Classic Trance Classic Vocal Trance Club Dubstep Club Sounds Dark DnB Dark PsyTrance Deep House Deep Nu-Disco Deep Tech Detroit House & Techno Disco House DJ Mixes Downtempo Lounge Drum 'n Bass Drumstep Dub Dubstep Dub Techno EBM EcLectronica Electro House Electronic Pioneers Electronics Electropop Electro Swing Epic Trance EuroDance Funky House Future Beats Future Garage Future Synthpop Gabber Glitch Hop Goa-Psy Trance Hands Up Hardcore Hard Dance Hardstyle Hard Techno House IDM Indie Beats Indie Dance Jungle Jazz House Latin House Liquid DnB Liquid Dubstep Liquid Trap Lounge Mainstage Melodic Progressive Minimal Nightcore Nu Disco Oldschool Acid Oldschool House Oldschool Rave Oldschool Techno & Trance Progressive Progressive Psy Psybient PsyChill Russian Club Hits Soulful House Space Dreams Tech House Techno Trance Trap Tribal House UMF Radio Underground Techno Vocal Chillout Vocal Lounge Vocal Trance	00's Hits 00's R&B 60's Rock 80's Alt & New Wave 80's Dance 80's Rock Hits 90's Hits 90's R&B Alternative Rock Ambient[lower-alpha 1] American Songbook Baroque Period[lower-alpha 1] Bebop Jazz Best of the 60's Best of the 80's Blues Rock Bolero Bossa Nova Café de Paris Chillout[lower-alpha 1] Classic Christmas[lower-alpha 2] Classic Hip-Hop Classic Motown Classic Rock Classical Guitar Classical Period[lower-alpha 1] Classical Piano Trios[lower-alpha 1] Club Bollywood Contemporary Christian Country Cuban Lounge Dance Hits Dave Koz & Friends[lower-alpha 1] DaTempo Lounge Disco Party Downtempo Lounge Dreamscapes EDM Fest[lower-alpha 3] EuroDance[lower-alpha 1] Flamenco Halloween[lower-alpha 2] Hard Rock Hit 70's Holiday Smooth Jazz[lower-alpha 2] Indie Rock Jazz Classics Jpop Latin Pop Hits Latin Rock Lounge[lower-alpha 1] Love Music Meditation Mellow Jazz Mellow Smooth Jazz Metal Modern Blues Modern Rock Mostly Classical Movie Soundtracks Mozart[lower-alpha 1] Nature New Age Norteña Old School Funk & Soul Oldies Piano Jazz Pop Christmas[lower-alpha 2] Pop Rock Reggaeton Relaxation Relaxing Ambient Piano Romantic Period[lower-alpha 1] Romantica Romántica Latina Roots Reggae Salsa Sleep Relaxation Slow Jams Smooth Beats Smooth Bossa Nova Smooth Jazz Smooth Jazz 24'7[lower-alpha 1] Smooth Lounge Soft Rock Solo Piano[lower-alpha 1] Tango Top Hits Uptempo Smooth Jazz Urban Hits Urban Pop Hits Vocal Chillout[lower-alpha 1] Vocal Lounge[lower-alpha 1] Vocal New Age Vocal Smooth Jazz World	00's Rock 60's Rock 70's Rock 80's Alternative 80's Rock 90's Alternative 90's Rock Alternative Rock Black Metal Blues Rock Classic Hard Rock Classic Metal Classic Rock Death Metal Grunge Hair Bands Hard Rock Heavy Metal Indie Rock Industrial Melodic Death Metal Metal Metalcore Modern Rock Nu Metal Pop Rock Power Metal Progressive Rock Punk Rock Rock Ballads Screamo-Emo Soft Rock Symphonic Metal Thrash Metal	Bass Jazz Bebop Blues Blues Rock Bossa Nova Classic Jazz Contemporary Vocals Cool Jazz Current Jazz Dave Koz & Friends[lower-alpha 1] Flamenco Jazz Fusion Lounge Guitar Jazz Gypsy Jazz Hard Bop Holiday Jazz[lower-alpha 2] Holiday Smooth Jazz[lower-alpha 2] Jazz Ballads Latin Jazz Mellow Jazz Mellow Piano Jazz Mellow Smooth Jazz Paris Café Piano Jazz Piano Trios Saxophone Jazz Sinatra Style Smooth Bossa Nova Smooth Jazz Smooth Jazz 24'7[lower-alpha 1] Smooth Lounge Smooth Uptempo Smooth Vocals Straight-Ahead Swing & Big Band Timeless Classics Trumpet Jazz Vibraphone Jazz Vocal Legends	20th Century 21st Century Bach Ballets Baroque Period[lower-alpha 1] Beethoven Brahms Cello Works Chamber Works Chopin Choral Works Classical Period[lower-alpha 1] Classical Piano Trios[lower-alpha 1] Classical Relaxation Concertos Contemporary Period Easy Classical Handel Harpsichord Works Haydn Medieval Period Mozart[lower-alpha 1] Operas Orchestral Works Organ Works Overtures Piano Works Renaissance Period Romantic Period[lower-alpha 1] Sacred Works Solo Instruments Solo Piano[lower-alpha 1] Sonatas Songs & Lieder String Works Symphonies Tchaikovsky Violin Works Vivaldi Wind Works

Awards

• International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) - Best Radio Station (Global) [Nominated: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, Winner: 2010, Nominated: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015]
• International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) - Best Music App [Winner: 2011, Nominated: 2012, 2013]
• RAIN Awards - Best Overall Online Radio Servic" [Nominated: 2014]

Notes

1. Same channel that airs on sister stations
2. Only available seasonally.
3. Airs as "Mainstage" on Digitally Imported

References

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12. Hughlett, Mike (March 8, 2007). "Web radio fears going bust: The battle over royalties paid by Internet broadcasters is hardly new, but the stakes have never been higher.". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
13. "IDMA Nominees and Winners 2010". March 29, 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
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15. "JAZZRADIO website".
16. "ROCKRADIO website".
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23. "LEARN ABOUT OUR BRAND CHANGE". Retrieved 2014-09-02.

See Also

• List of internet radio stations

External links

• Digitally Imported
• RadioTunes.com
• JAZZRADIO.com
• ROCKRADIO.com
• ClassicalRadio