Nune Radio Speeds Up Connection For Better Sound

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by Paul Chaderjian

June 29, 2002


(Yerevan) - Since the launch of Nune Radio on the Internet in December, 2001, nearly 500 listeners, every month, point and click to the Nune Radio link from www.nune.am to hear Nune's music.


Listeners are also treated to rare interviews with the superstar and music from other Armenian artists, 24-hours-a-day and seven-days-a-week, all for free.


"Everyone you know is on the Internet, " says Nune. "Young people are Internet and e-mail experts in Armenian families, and I see them teaching older relatives because it is a great tool to keep in touch, to learn and be entertained."



The audio entertainment offered on Nune Radio through the Internet has had an overwhelmingly positive response, according to Houri Vartanian with "Friend of Nune," the official Nune fan club. "Friends of Nune" funds and operates Nune Radio.


"We launched Nune Radio at a standard bitrate connection, so that everyone who access the Internet could hear Nune Radio," says Pablo Tailanian, the volunteer webmaster of nune.am. "But the deal is, people wanted us to use a fast bitrate so they heard higher quality sound."


In response to requests from fans for CD quality music, Nune Radio volunteers reloaded all of Nune's released and unreleased songs at a higher downstream speed. This means Internet users who hear the popular Armenian recording and performing star, Nune Yesayan, and other Armenian artists on Nune Radio, are now hearing Nune Radio with improved CD-quality sound.


"With Nune Radio upgrading its downstream bit rate," says Houri Vartanian of Friends of Nune, "we're blasting the 'net with the best quality sound possible. The Live365 stat page shows an average of 461 hits or visits to our station per month. And each visitor spends between 45 minutes to 11 hours listening each time they connect."


"The Armenian culture has really come to life on the Internet," says Nune. "Many of my friends, like me, check the latest news on Groong or read Armenia Week for news about Armenia and Armenians. What we leave behind on Internet will mean Armenia, our culture and history, music and art will be preserved there forever. That's why I like the idea of people hearing my music and other Armenian artists on Nune Radio."


In rotation this month on Nune Radio (connect from Nune's home page www.nune.am or directly at http://www.live365.com/stations/292717 ) are sound bites from Nune, talking about her albums and why has dedicated her career to introducing young Armenians to our rich heritage. Nune also talks about the next album she will be released, a CD dedicated to Sayat Nova.


Following the ancient tradition of minstrels, like Sayat Nova, who traveled from place to place to tell the stories of Armenian people, Nune will be traveling from Armenia to North America this fall, when she'll perform at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood and at venues in Fresno, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Washington, DC, Montreal and Toronto.


p.s. 

April 5, 2008

Over the past nine years, from inception to this week, the station has played 85,44 hours and 39 minutes of Nune songs.



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