Last night in the Dallas area, Random Hero's touring van was broken into. Bags of personal belongings were stolen, as was their cash box, which had money they were going to use to buy new merchandise and pay for expensive repairs needed for their van. The band issued this statement: We know that God is […]
What do ESPN Radio, Pandora, iHeart, Slacker, TuneIn Radio and The Blast have in common? All of these entities are finalists in at least one of the categories of the RAIN (Radio And Internet Newsletter) Internet Radio Awards 2013, which will be held at the RAIN Summit in Orlando, Tuesday September 17th. This is the […]
We're following an issue regarding the Multi-Stream Flash Player. Right now it seems to always work in Firefox, however the Flash Plugin in Chrome and Internet Explorer seems to be an issue and it is causing the player not to load. That's the theory at the moment. The fix, is to clear your cache, specifically your plugin […]
Today, we've had some intermittent internet routing issues between our sending data center and the Virginia data center that hosts the 64k and 32k streams, causing dead air on those streams at times. If you experience this in one of our apps or in the multi-stream flash player on the website, switch to our 56k, 48k, or 24k […]
For the second time, The Blast, aka "Blastrock from TheBlast.FM" is a semi-finalist for the award of Best Single Stream Webcaster in the RAIN (Radio And Internet Newsletter) Awards, which will be held September 17th in Orlando, Florida. In the bigger station and network categories, heavyweights such as ESPN Radio, Tune In Radio, and iHeart […]
Here's why Silverline missed out on their scheduled 2013 Lifelight Festival appearance. Lead singer Ryan Edberg and his wife had something much more important to attend to…the birth of their new daughter, Kylie. Congrats from The Blast for the addition to the Silverline family!
Find out what Disciple's Kevin Young thinks about the effects of illegal downloading. Here him talk about the next record and its progress. Disciple's front man and The Blast founder and afternoon on air personality Colin Cruz sat down over the weekend at The Blast booth at Lifelight Festival and caught up. Listen in Monday at […]
The new multi-stream flash/HTML5 player is having issues and is not currently working in some browsers. The most popular stream that normally works in that player is the CD quality 64k AAC+ stream. We have re-loaded the legacy 64k AAC+ flash player on to the website in case the multi-stream flash/HTML5 player does not work in your […]
We have added our transparent CD quality 192 kbps mp3 stream to our Android app. That moves in to the app without you taking an app update. Just close and re-open your app. Clear the cache, clear data and force stop, if necessary, to see it. In other Android app news… The problem of invisible…to […]
Only the Sturgis Rally and Races draw more visitors to South Dakota every year. Expecting to top 100,000 people once again at this free fest, The Lifelight Festival is held every Labor Day weekend in southeastern South Dakota, just east of Worthing, a small town not too far from Sioux Falls. It draws people from as […]
