BroadcastAmerica.com Enters Europe

BroadcastAmerica.com, a multichannel online entertainment company, has launched BroadcastEurope.com to provide an Internet gateway to a broad range of live European radio programs. BroadcastEurope.com has opened offices in Berlin and Oldenburg, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland, and is working to grow its list of radio stations.

This week, for example, the company signed with a group of 15 stations in Scotland and Ireland, which will be added to the site within the next month. The company is also in discussions with radio stations in more than a dozen countries throughout Europe and expects to include more than 100 European stations by the end of the year.

Also broadcast on the site are Scottish Premier League soccer matches, in addition to British soccer. All matches are broadcast live over the Internet and then archived to be available on demand. Other radio stations presently streamed at the new site include HIT-FM and MIX-FM, both based in Munich.

BroadcastAmerica.com has partnered with more than 575 radio and 67 television news stations. The U.S. site is now logging more than five million audio and video accesses per month through RealPlayer and Microsoft's Windows Media Player. The company hopes to extend this success into the European marketplace.

"We plan to build our model in Europe just as we have here in the U.S.," said president and chief operating officer John Brier, a founder of the year-old company. "Now you can tune in to a jazz station in Berlin or Top 40 Celtic or dance music in Scotland. And Europeans can tune in to one of the hundreds of U.S. stations we broadcast."