Sunshine Classic Rock was featured somewhere on the Live365 site for about 12 hours yesterday, starting in the early morning hours here on the east coast. I woke up and instead of the normal one or two pre-dawn listeners, there were 20! We were capped out at 40, plus a few VIP’s, until mid afternoon. I looked all over to see where the listeners were coming from and never did find anything. Thanks to the help, we set new daily highs for Simultaneous Listeners (46), station page hits (1093, with 531 streams launched), same-day new pre-sets (12) and Total Listener Hours (441+). So thanks to Live365, we smashed through the 5000 30-day TLH mark with more than 200 to spare, and also cracked the top 500 stations for the first time.
In the six weeks since switching to 128K, we have gone from 3500 TLH to more than 5200 and moved up in overall station rank from 723 to 492. Obviously, Live’s help was a big factor, but as we promote more variety and better sound, the bigger storage space, longer playlist, and higher quality audio seems to be a factor too.
I started this station last July for my wife, who didn’t like the 60’s oldies I was playing on a station hardly anyone was listening to. I asked her what she wanted me to play on “her” new station. She said she wanted to hear rock from the 80’s, with some she liked from the ’70’s. Of course, as PD, I couldn’t resist throwing in a few rock classics from the late 60’s and early 90’s, but whatever I’ve done, the station was her concept, so next time I start a station I will be sure to ask her what to play. 
So welcome new listeners…thanks for finding, trying and pre-setting SCR…we look forward to seeing you around here more often now!
