The `Zone Radio Network. CLOSING DOWN.

[GreenYoshi]

That's right. After months of struggles and being offline, the `Zone Radio Network has now been forced to make its exit on the internet. We are having to stop all streams because of decisions taken by the ZTNET Adminstrators (the people that host this site).

In short, the network doesn't get funding, and the hosts don't require us to pay for the place either. They have been kind enough to host the `ZRN streamers for YEARS for FREE now, but the bandwidth load and disk space required to keep this place up is proving to be too much for them, so they made decisions to down-size. In this plan, they're having to cut off the larger resource-eating parts of their servers, and this site was an easy target since it consumes both space and bandwidth.

I can't blame them if they can't afford keeping the place intact anymore, but at least they made this decision before we've already started major renovations on the network just to find out later that we cannot exist anymore.
So anyway, with the story over, make a record in your diaries. Since we've been around for a long time, we want to make a last stand before we officially have to be off air. There will be a live broadcast taking place for the majority of:

EASTER SUNDAY 12TH APRIL

Please note, that this is also the last day of streaming, so after the show, don't expect the streamers to work anymore. I haven't set a starting or ending time yet, so keep an eye out on this page for further information.
This broadcast will be taken throughout all remaining stations that are still running by that day, which means no matter what channel you're listening to, it will be the live show.

On that note, the following stations will face immediate termination as a signal that our network is packing up:

Channel 1 - Sega Games Radio (SGR)
Channel 2 - Shy Guy's Music Box
Channel 4 - Neo Anime Music Radio (NAMR)
Channel 8 - Flywheel Radio
Channel 9 - VGMusic Radio
Channel 10 - PC Games


Again, keep and eye out on this page for live show times. Other than that, this is all we have to say for now.

-GreenYoshi
`ZRN Administrator

[DecipherOne]

I'ved listened many many hours to this station. It's been a while since I knew the site was up, I just checked the first time today, only to find out that you are closing up shop for good. This is a sad sad day. Thank you for providing an awesome service to the public for so long. Also, is there not a way that ZRN can be saved? Whether it be from funding, advertising, some sort of deal struck up with the host? Or, what about finding someone else to host the site.

Death be damned sirs, I believe that with the powers of web 2.0 Zrn could be saved. Do not give up your struggle, unless it is something that you have simply accepted, but I believe that it could be saved some how.

[NO_CARRIER]

If someone is willing to host us, that would be great. We would need a host that could provide the following:

1) A linux server. A shared server is fine.
  - Icecast2 and Ices don't consume any real CPU load as all of our music is pre-encoded.
2) 10 GB of server diskspace
3) At least 320kbps constant bandwidth. (That's 100GBytes of traffic a month.)

As for fund raisers, I suppose we could do that, but someone would have to handle the financial end of things as I don't have the desire to deal with that.