Some of the first Internet-only monetary radio stations Go emerged in 1995. NetRadio "was sole of the Internet's original Webcasters," eventually "streaming more than 100 channels including both music and spoken material." Nonetheless, NetRadio Corporation ceased operations in 2001.
On May 1, 2007, the United States Employ Royalty Board approved a duty increase in the royalties payable to performers of recorded works broadcast on the internet. This was the result of a two civil year proceeding, with dozens of witnesses and hundreds of documents from over twenty contrastive parties, including extensive and small webcasters, NPR, college stations, and SoundExchange. The CRB was privy to private financial archives and business models of the webcasters, and after reviewing the evidence and testimony, issued their decision on May 1, 2007 (which is currently under appeal). If enforced, this benchmark will undermine the business models of multiplied Internet radio stations, which had previously relied on the comparison of $0.000768 per song that had been unchanged from 1998-2005. These rules were scheduled to go into effect on May 1, 2007, with the first due date being July 15, 2007, and apply retroactively to January 1, 2006.