Some major networks like Clear Channel in the US and Chrysalis in the UK restrict listening to in country because of music licensing and advertising concerns.)
As late as 1995, Internet talk radio was not available via multicast streaming; it was distributed "as audio files that computer users fetch one by one."
In January 1995, RTFM's news programming was expanded to include "live audio feeds from the House and Senate floors."
Called "KMi Maven Of The Month"[1][2] (maven = expert or connoisseur), the events featured interviews with experts in Human Computer Interaction, New Media and Artificial Intelligence, and deployed a combination of streaming audio, web-chat, phone-ins and live video.
That event used a mixture of least-common-denominator technology available at that time: 14.4 kbit/s dialup modems, Netscape, RealAudio, CU-SeeMe, email, web forms and chat windows for questioners, as well as landline telephony to connect questioners to the live audio stream after they had provided their phone numbers to the production team.