Radio Free Virgin

Radio Free Virgin was a digital radio broadcaster started in early 1999, and a member company of the Virgin Group. Their programming consisted of over 60 professionally-programmed channels playing various genres of music.

Programming was broadcast over the Internet in a two-tier setup: One free tier allowing access to a subset of channels, and a monthly-subscription tier ("RFV Royal") for paying customers with higher-quality streaming audio and access to all channels.

Until December 2006, Radio Free Virgin (RFV) was available via the Philips top set Streamium. But as of 2007 this service has been taken down.Fact|date=February 2007 The company was privately held corporation funded by Richard Branson, and was a unit of Virgin Audio Holdings, LLC.

The company was headed by the trio of Dave Gordon, Zach Zalon and Brendon Cassidy who were early pioneers of the music download business. Unlike Napster and others, RFV was a streaming music player over the Internet, with both a free and a premium subscription service. It quickly gained popularity and reached the 1 million downloads within a few months in early 2000 [ [http://www.davegordon.com Dave Gordon.com - Internet Webmaster - Software Programming & Web Hosting ] ] . The trio eventually moved on to other related business enterprises.

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* [http://www.radiofreevirgin.com Company homepage] (no longer active) [ [http://www.davegordon.com Dave Gordon.com - Internet Webmaster - Software Programming & Web Hosting ] ]