Radioseven
Encyclopedia
Radioseven is a Swedish
Internet radio station
, operated by the non-profit association Seven Broadcasting. Radioseven is concentrated on broadcasting mainly dance music
, with appearances of live program hosts during peak hours.
The station, originally named 7UP-Radio, started broadcasting on August 8, 1999. It was a young Swede named Patrick Westerlund, who together with friends he had met on the IRC network DALnet
, started the radio as a hobby project. Over the years the station has striven to become more serious and professional. Some of these steps are the renaming of 7UP-Radio to Radioseven in February 2002, and the establishment of the non-profit association Seven Broadcasting.
During the autumn of 2005, Seven Broadcasting launched two new online radio stations: the house
and trance
oriented Mysteria: The Club Experience, and ICE playing mostly hip hop
and modern R'n'B. These two stations had to be shut down after about six months due to high license fees and the limited economic resources of Seven Broadcasting.
Radioseven has for several years been a partner of the LAN party Dreamhack
. During Dreamhack Winter in 2006, the station broadcast over FM
for the first time and could be heard all over Jönköping
where Dreamhack is held, on 107.0 MHz.
The magazine Internetworld
ranked Radioseven's website as one of the 100 best in Sweden during 2004 and 2005 http://internetworld.idg.se/ArticlePages/200406/09/20040609223524_IW117/20040609223524_IW117.dbp.asp http://internetworld.idg.se/ArticlePages/200506/09/20050609121151_IW377/20050609121151_IW377.dbp.asp. In 2006, The Swedish Radio Academy awarded its Special Award to Radioseven.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
Internet radio station
Internet radio
Internet radio is an audio service transmitted via the Internet...
, operated by the non-profit association Seven Broadcasting. Radioseven is concentrated on broadcasting mainly dance music
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
, with appearances of live program hosts during peak hours.
The station, originally named 7UP-Radio, started broadcasting on August 8, 1999. It was a young Swede named Patrick Westerlund, who together with friends he had met on the IRC network DALnet
DALnet
DALnet is an Internet Relay Chat network that is currently populated by a stable population of around 30,000 users in about 18,000 channels, with 40 servers making up the network....
, started the radio as a hobby project. Over the years the station has striven to become more serious and professional. Some of these steps are the renaming of 7UP-Radio to Radioseven in February 2002, and the establishment of the non-profit association Seven Broadcasting.
During the autumn of 2005, Seven Broadcasting launched two new online radio stations: the house
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
and trance
Trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...
oriented Mysteria: The Club Experience, and ICE playing mostly hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
and modern R'n'B. These two stations had to be shut down after about six months due to high license fees and the limited economic resources of Seven Broadcasting.
Radioseven has for several years been a partner of the LAN party Dreamhack
DreamHack
DreamHack is a digital festival, a local area network gathering with demo competitions, gaming competitions and more. It's arranged twice annually at the Elmia exhibition centre in Jönköping, Sweden and also twice a year at Expolaris Congresscenter, Skellefteå, Sweden and holds the world record ...
. During Dreamhack Winter in 2006, the station broadcast over FM
FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...
for the first time and could be heard all over Jönköping
Jönköping
-Notable people:*Lillian Asplund, RMS Titanic survivor*John Bauer, illustrator, painter*Amy Diamond, singer*Agnetha Fältskog, ABBA*Carl Henrik Fredriksson, editor-in-chief and co-founder of Eurozine*Anders Gustafsson, kayaker, Olympian...
where Dreamhack is held, on 107.0 MHz.
The magazine Internetworld
Internetworld
Internetworld is a Swedish magazine that focuses on the Internet and business surrounding it. It is published by IDG. Internetworld has since 1997 annually ranked Sweden's 100 best websites, this list is the most respected website ranking in Sweden....
ranked Radioseven's website as one of the 100 best in Sweden during 2004 and 2005 http://internetworld.idg.se/ArticlePages/200406/09/20040609223524_IW117/20040609223524_IW117.dbp.asp http://internetworld.idg.se/ArticlePages/200506/09/20050609121151_IW377/20050609121151_IW377.dbp.asp. In 2006, The Swedish Radio Academy awarded its Special Award to Radioseven.