Some history, An English rock band, Queen released a song entitled ‘Radio Ga Ga’ in 1984. The song told a story of how television overtook the radio for entertainment and news broadcast.

Queen called it Radio Ga Ga when radio slowly became just a background noise. But… fast forward to 31 years, the time has passed and radio is still here and has evolved to become a more than just background noise. Now, advancement of Internet technology can arm radio station with live radio chat room to become more advanced.

Interactive Live Radio Chat Room

So, what do you need in order to embed a chat room into your live radio show or live event?

1. You will need to signup at www.rumbletalk.com
2. You get a code that you should copy and paste into your website
3. You are done. It should appear on your website.

You can now, tweak and set your chat settings and behavior, like look & feel, what login types and more.

If you have a WordPress, you can use WordPress chat plugin so all these steps are not needed (all is done via the plugin).

Do people still listen to the radio today?

Surprisingly, so many research conducted showed that huge percentage of people still listen to the radio. The majority of people are listening to the radio when driving a car or while performing other activities. Radio advertising also still works well to promote a product, especially for a specific target audience.

Radio has not become obsolete because of it’s convenient to listen casually. People do not have to dedicate their time to listen to the radio, unlike watching television or movie. With such comfort, radio still supplies its service to millions of people worldwide. Along with the advent of Internet radio broadcast in 1994, radio now can reach millions of people worldwide.

Although most people listen to radio casually, the first Internet radio broadcast was a radio talk show called Internet Radio Talk. It is necessary for Internet radio station to equip themselves with live radio chat room, to enable listeners to communicate interactively with the station.

Internet radio broadcast will surely need live radio chat room in order to get their listeners profile. In the days before Internet radio, there was a limited area for radio to be received, normally FM or AM radio broadcast could only have listened in one city area. However, with the Internet radio, such limitation is now broken.

A small town Internet radio that broadcasted from some remote place can be listened by people on the other side of the globe. It is now common for Internet radio station to have a dedicated listener in another country. Interactive chat and communication with listeners will give radio station better understanding of the people who listen to their station.

Chat Room to Reach Listeners

Now, here comes the question for a radio station of how to engage and reach out those listeners effectively. Since Internet technology has been used to broadcast radio program, why not utilize the same technology to reach listeners?

Using the same Internet technology, radio can now reach out the listener with live radio chat room. Rumble Talk with its eminent chat platform has provided the best platform for every station needs to furnish themselves with live radio chat room.

Availability of live radio chat room facilitates radio station, especially Internet radio station to connect to more listeners. Therefore, radio broadcast becomes more vibrant and dynamic with listeners’ interaction. Live radio chat room can be used for a song request, discussing a specific issue for radio talk show, or simply a casual chat room.

When Internet radio listeners have access to request song, a radio station will be able to understand the listeners’ preference.

They can provide a and deliver a better music program. On a talk show, radio talk show with chat room will generate deeper and augmented discussion of the topics, because listeners from around the world will surely have a different view of a particular issue.

A casual chat room will create a bond between listeners and radio station because listeners can interact with their favorite radio station and have a casual chat just like the old-time-radio that address their listeners casually.

Best Live Radio Chat Room

For that purpose, Internet radio station must select the best live radio chat room that suits their requirements. First, Internet radio chat room must be able to be accessed easily, provide less requirement to install an application in both radio station and listeners gadget is the desired requisite. Second, chat room should also be able to set up easily in radio station website to minimize the hassle of installation and configuration.

Third, A live radio chat room should help the radio station to reach listeners easily, instead of creating more tumult with installation, configuration and tiny details like users’ registration and maintenance.

Rumble Talk provided those three benefits, with its minimized primary steps to setup chat room for your radio station. Rumble Talk advanced platform requires no installation on radio station website. A simple registration process and a copy of code embedded on your website will give a chat room capability in an instant.

Rumble Talk provides more than just a chat room, we provide a chat platform for radio station needs. Our chat platform is capable to handle video or audio calls and a short audio message. With this audio message facility, radio DJ can ask listeners to send their audio message and broadcast them during live on-air.

For the security, we provide a top-notch enhanced security technology with SSL connection, plus the capability to block spam with our AntiSpam and Word Black List.

Our list of satisfied customers is an evidence of Rumble Talk capability to provide a live radio chat room. With Rumble Talk, a radio station will sing ‘Radio Ga Ga’ proudly, because Internet radio station is more than just “a background noise”, but the radio that will reach its finest hour.

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Actually for the better. The Internet makes radio much more competitive and for this reason, better. Listeners are no longer limited to the radio waves in their area, and radio stations can potentially reach listeners around the world. Having more options has brought deserved capitalistic success to stations that create great radio, and forced those who are mediocre to up their game.

And in addition to the market advantages, having radio online gives DJ’s and hosts more opportunities and tools to engage with their listeners. When a listener opens a radio station’s website, they can browse the static information that is relevant to them, such as the schedule or host profile, at a time when they are ready to see it or can participate in live interactions with the show.

RumbleTalk has seen its radio clients benefit from the live interaction that occurs with group chat. Including a live group chat allows listeners and hosts to engage with each other in a public and immersive way. Read on to find out how live group chat improves online radio stations.

Turning Passive Listeners into Active Listeners

It is common to use radio as background noise; but just because a listener tuned into your station with that intent doesn’t mean you can’t convert them into an active user. Knowing and increasing how many listeners are actually active can increase the value of your advertising space whether that is in the form of an audio commercial or display ad. Even generally, it’s better for your station to be heard than to fall on deaf ears.

By including a live group chat in your website, your hosts will have many angles to direct users to your website. This pulls them from distractions like Facebook to your content and increases the value of your “digital real estate”.

For example, the host can upload and embed a video, audio, or video in the live group chat for listeners to comment on, or encourage listeners to send their questions, comments or song requests for live responses. If your station hosts a talk show, the live group chat is a great way to have listeners share their opinions on controversial issues. Stations can also use the live group chat to play trivia or other games.

Watching the Spectacle of Live Radio

There will be typically be people who just want to view the live discussion without participating. Forum style interactions give the sense that the user can return to it any time, but live group chat discussions create a sense of urgency to keep users engaged.

The content of your live group chat from those who do actively participate in the discussion provides a value-add to the station as a whole. Those who are participating in the chat are generating free content for your other listeners to consume. And expert, interesting, or simply vocal users of the chat can be a driving force for returning listeners who are fascinated with watching the spectacle of a raw discussion.

Some producers will fear the potential for controversy, but controversy should not be overtly avoided. Controversy is a common factor in viral content and viral content is good for business.

However, most radio stations want to have the option to use effective moderation tools. Moderating with RumbleTalk is easy and can be done in steps. You can appoint as many moderators as you would like, create a list of words to be automatically filtered, view the IP addresses of chatters, kick out a chatter, and permanently ban a chatter.

High ROI

Live group chat is an investment with a high return. The reason for this is that listeners who feel emotionally connected to a station return and an emotional connection can easily be made from a human-to-human interaction.

The feeling of sitting in the room with their favorite radio host can be imitated when both the host and the listener are present in the same live group chat room. Alternatives to live group chat lack this human feeling of instantaneous interactions.

In addition to the host-listener relationship, listener-listener relationships are also created. This builds a community of people who feel connected to one another for their mutual interest in the station. That community bond is another driver for returning listeners.

Live group chat increases returning listeners and keep listeners glued to the station website for longer amounts of time. As discussed earlier this makes the value of your digital real estate increase, but what does it cost in the first place?

For a top-of-the-line professional live group chat room, stations can pay as little as $14 per month. This includes the ability to export chat transcripts and monitor how many listeners are logged into your chat. These can be used as resources to prove the extent of your station’s active users.

Choosing a Group Chat for Your Radio Station

While there are many live group chat options available, you’ll want to make sure you are choosing one that has is able to perform at a minimum the following functions:

• Can be customized
• Is mobile friendly
• Can handle large numbers of viewers and chatters
• Has effective moderation tools
• Is able to send multimedia messages
• Can be easily integrated into your website

The last point on that list is crucial to the professional appearance of your station. You don’t want to have to send your customers to a third party site or app in order to get them to participate. Think of it as having your listeners call your station rather than an outside call center. It makes a difference.

And since you will be including this chat on your website, you’ll also want it to be customized to aesthetically fit your website. Using RumbleTalk’s live group chat room has options for those that are novice web designers as well as CSS experts.

Of course, we’re biased because our team works endlessly to make sure that our group chat rooms have all the necessary tools and options to deserve a place in the twenty-first century.

Visit RumbleTalk’s website to get more information on product features, try a demo, and get started with a 7-day free trial.

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Of course, this is ludicrous because radio is alive and thriving today more than ever.

And RumbleTalk was there to help.

Radio adapted to the Internet

In 1979 the Buggles were singing about the tragedy “Video killed the radio star” but more than three decades later we still listen to radio.

This premonition was as accurate as the “futuristic” glitter hair worn in their video. Thank goodness that didn’t become a thing.

Also, the irony can’t be missed that radio was probably a better marketer of their song than that video, even as humorous as it is to watch.

The song could be rewritten today to say “Internet helped the radio star”, “Internet saved the radio star”, or even “Internet advanced the radio star.”

Today, you don’t even need an AM/FM channel to host a radio show. With the right software, the Internet is a full-fledged broadcasting platform.

That’s where RumbleTalk comes in.

Internet radio shows are now using group chat to engage with listeners in ways not possible prior to the wide use of the Internet.

I remember the days of calling in to comment on the topic of the hour, hoping to be the 10th caller to win tickets to the next concert, or simply calling to request a song.

Now these interactions can all be done with RumbleTalk group chat, and further, radio listeners can chat among each other. The conversation is open and accessible, no longer delayed by the speed of the call screener.

Just look at RadioNOPE to see how group chat works for their online radio show

RadioNOPE is an Internet rock ‘n roll radio station that has been a long time RumbleTalk customer.

Their group chat is embedded throughout their website to engage listeners on their homepage or while they are visiting the page of a specific show. Listeners can talk about the songs playing or interact directly with show hosts such as with Live from the Barrage, a favorite talk show hailing from Queens.

But don’t take my word for it…

Here’s what Conan, founder and self described “benevolent dictator” of RadioNOPE, had to say about RumbleTalk’s influence on the Internet radio station.

RumbleTalk is an integral part of the RadioNOPE experience. As a 24/7/365 streaming radio station that is heavily curated, the dialogue between station and listener is vital. Whether it is as simple as a listener asking information about the song that is playing, or just the shared experience of listening to things together, the chat takes RadioNOPE a cut above algorithm driven experiences like Pandora and its ilk, and the interaction has an extra level of engagement and surprise behind throwing on a Spotify playlist or putting a library on “shuffle”. This is true of the music shows, as well as the talk shows on the station, none more so than with the station’s flagship show “Live from the Barrage”, where listeners react with the hosts, guests, and each other with a special lexicon of in-jokes and phrases derived from the show itself.
RumbleTalk is how we elevate a simple website into one of the most carefully curated and awesome listening experiences on the Internet.

RumbleTalk for radio

The advantages of using RumbleTalk for radio are many.

Group chat is a necessary tool for a radio show to optimize listener engagement. With RumbleTalk, radio stations have a flexible platform that is easy to use for both you and your listeners.

You can have separate group chats for each show or one seamless experience throughout, use group chat for instantaneous dialog between show hosts and listeners as well as listener-listener.

Using group chat also captures just how many active listeners the show is reaching as opposed to just passive listeners. These numbers have many useful applications and can be helpful for higher advertising revenue.

And there’s one more thing, RumbleTalk loves radio. This means that as we continue to develop our product we’ll have you in mind and create features tailored especially for radio. That’s a service that just can’t be beat.

Visit our homepage or contact support@rumbletalk.com for more information on how RumbleTalk can improve your listener engagement.

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We listen to the radio DJ talking, and we are also able to send the respond such as song request, or sending our story to be broadcast on air. That is actually basic of what Internet media can provide with radio streaming and chatroom: listen and chat.

Listen and Chat as Communication Needs

Human being is created as social being. Therefore, we exercise our social needs through communication. There are numerous ways of communication which show complexity nature of human communication. We engage in a conversation with someone, we listen and chat, we read a book to understand its author’s idea and put them in writing, we listen to a music as a way musician communicate through music, we examine paintings, sculpture, and other art form to grab the message its artist conveyed. We have endless type of communication that makes us human being. Without communication, human being will not be able to exist or even go advance. Our needs to communicate makes us a human being as who we are.

Since the era of Internet, it has position itself as a new media that bring new perspective to human communication. Today, Internet has become essential media of communication, entertainment and social interaction. Internet is the only place in the world where users drive and control its system. Internet is the place where its technology and development was shaped by users, rather than big industries and capital, or governmental institution.

The Earliest Form of Listen and Chat

Radio and its impact that shaped global politics has also evolved along with Internet. In the World War II, radio was proven to be the most effective propaganda tools. One of the radio event that turned back the tide of war was in Battle of Britain of 1940 to 1941. Nazi German had controlled most European continents, and soon after France surrendered to Nazi German in June 1940, Nazi German aimed its target to Great Britain. Within July 940 until May 1941, an invasive attack was launched by Nazi to weakened Britain defense system. The battle was culminated in a huge raid of bombing stormed Britain, known as the Blitz.

With its air superiority, Nazi German seemed to gain its target and even continuously bombed London for days and nights. Situation was bleak, because when the air raid sirens was sounded, people should run for air shelters for protection. They did not know and comprehend what happened around them because they were in the bomb shelter for most of time.

In such situation, radio played an important role to become main source of information. Hence, early form of listen and chat for radio audience was constructed during the time. A radio announcer from CBS Europe stationed in London: Edward Murrow, was the one who covered the Blitz and reported where the bombing hit and its impact to the area. Its coverage has given the information throughout the world and the people of Britain about how the Nazi German had failed to weaken Britain’s defensive system. People listen and chat about the news reported by Murrow with their colleagues, and information was spread out. This is the earliest form of listen and chat for radio listener.

From then on, radio audience started to develop their new listen and chat communication system. The system evolved with the participation of radio audience in the broadcast, either by telephone or sending text message to radio station during a broadcast. Even in the Internet radio, this type of communication system also evolve with chatroom and group chat for radio audience. All of them are focused to enhance listen and chat communication system that had been used by radio audience for decades.

Why Radio Audience Like to Listen and Chat?

Unlike television broadcast, the absence of visual image in radio broadcast activate our imagination in describing the event. During the London bombing, people imagining the effect of the bombing when listening to Murrow’s broadcast. When they listened to a specific area mentioned, they would definitely try to contact someone they knew in that area to get more detailed information.

Prior to Internet radio era, radio audience love to share their stories with fellow audience. Radio announcer usually invited people to send their stories about a specific topic and selected story was read during broadcast. Sometimes the radio station opened their telephone line for audience to call and engage in a conversation during live broadcast.

This experience became more exciting because of the absence of visual image. So, we as human being utilize our imagination to its fullest in order to visualize the radio broadcast. Therefore, sharing information by telling stories and enhancing the information for visual depiction is the main reason why radio audience love to listen and chat.

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With the growing number of audiences, here comes the question, how can we create a better experience for our audiences?
Based on the data from two most respective research companies: Triton and Nielsen Audio, we really have to consider Internet radio station as a serious digital media to convey message.  The power of Internet radio is in its casual listening experience, that enable people listen to online radio while they doing other activities. We have discussed how radio chat room is able to create a better experience for radio station. Availability of chat for Internet radio station will create a very interactive way of old-fashioned phone and conversation between radio DJ and audience.

Chat for Internet Radio Station and Its Audience

The staggering number of Internet radio audience is really something to be taken seriously by radio station operated on the Internet. Within 4 years, from 2010 to 2014, the number of online radio audience has increased 20% and most of them are listening the radio in their smart phone or desktop computer/laptop. Surprisingly, majority of Internet radio audiences come from 12-24 years age group, the age group whose preferences can change within second and they can easily switch channel. For this age group, radio station must be able to catch their attention to make them keep listening to the station without switching channel.

It is important for radio station to engage audiences more actively, one of which is to invite them in giving their feedback or create an online conversation. We have seen in the previous article  of what RumbleTalk chat for internet radio is capable of in energizing a live event.  Actually, html chat platform provides the most convenient way for both radio station and audience to communicate and interact.
Why?

Synced Chat for Internet Radio Station

The number one reason is its easy installation. A chat room should not need a complicated setup in your Internet radio station website. Our infrastructure provide the best of Internet chat platform available today. With an HTML5 technology, we have the most powerful chat technology, you can embed chat in any where you want and it will fit right to the space you allocated.

The most time consuming activity to register to a new service is the registration process. Users will just left the service when they found out the service requires a complicated registration. That will not happen when chat platform has social media integration . Users can login to your chat using their existing Facebook or Twitter account. With more than a billion of users, Facebook is just like an Internet ID for everyone. So, when chat platform is installed in your website or Facebook page, your audiences can join the chat using their Facebook account.
Very simple and easy…

The other important thing is multiplicity.
One distinctive feature of html web chat platform is synced (synchronized) chat room.  Chat for Internet radio can put the same chat room in both web page and Facebook page, and messages posted in different place synced automatically across all chat rooms. This gives wider audience opportunity to chat in a multi channel. With this synced feature, people who go in web page chat room will be able to communicate with those who enter Facebook page chat room, as if they are in the same chat room.

What is Better for Internet Radio Station?

We have to admit there is none better than online dialogue solution for Internet radio station. It is the best way to engage audience in the 12-24 age group than opening multiple channel.  We already know the type of anxiety disorder affecting this age group called FoMO (Fear of Missing Out).

People who struggle with FoMO are wrestling to balance the peer pressure with their self-actualization.  Helping them by giving choice so they can chose something based on their personal preferences is the least radio station can do to help them to chose something on their own, not based on peer-pressure.

With our synced chat, people only see the other people sending chat in the conversation. They will not be able to know whether the other parties are sending message from Facebook page chat or from another website. They can only see that there are other parties participating in the chat room.

This synced chat is also providing great benefit for radio station. They can install the same chat room in multiple places:  Facebook pages, their websites and also their partner website with ease, because knowing all the chat room will be treated as one chat room with html chat platform.

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