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Sharing stream w/ other stations vs casual listeners of show
I work for a media company that currently uses a SHOUTcast server to stream our weekly show (similar to a podcast) to both listeners as well as terrestrial radio stations that are signed up as affiliates of the show. We are not a radio station, but a content provider for terrestrial radio stations. Only a small subset of our show's affiliates broadcast it live, and of those, a small few have been requesting radio stream information that will allow them to schedule/program our stream easier as opposed to manually going to our web page with the embedded listener links and broadcasting whatever their media player plays through their broadcast console (that's what most of our live affiliates do). We're a small business and not a radio station, so I'm not quite sure what is acceptable or standard practice here.
We currently use the winamp DSP plugin to broadcast our show. Do we share the port, server, and password stream info with other "affiliates", while regular listeners just go to our page? Or is there a better way to do this? Most things I've read focus on casual fans/listeners of a program when you stream your own show, and not commercial listeners like radio stations that you want to check compliance. And I don't think this quite falls under the scenario of relaying a stream, at least from what I gathered from reading about that.
My guess is that these few stations we're talking about are small with minimal staff and want to be able to program our stream into their playlist or some automation software. I just don't want to give them any info that will compromise the stream somehow or cause problems.
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