Thank you for checking out the Bay Drum Webcasts section. The Bay Drum Webcasts section is a listing of internet broadcasts which have programming that would be of interest to the Bay Drum community. Since these webcaster use either Real Networks, Microsoft media streaming technology or Winamp shoutcast, you will have to install the Real Networks G2 media player, Windows Media Player and Winamp if you want to be able to listen to all the stations. Once you have installed the players, select a station and enjoy!!  The following are a few things that you need to know:

• Before you can listen to the stations you MUST have:
• a live connection to the internet (28.8k or better),
• a sound capabilities enabled on your PC or workstation, and
• the Real Networks G2 media player, Windows Media Player, and Winamp which can be obtained by clicking on the buttons on the left.
• The sound quality is not equivalent to that of CD's, tapes and over the air broadcasts (but it's getting there),
• If you are behind a firewall there are some cases where you may experience problems with contacting (or maintaining a connection with) the webcast servers,
• The  Real Networks G2 media player, Windows Media Player, and Winamp will not work at the same time, so you will have to exit one to use the other.

Bay Drum is a network of African-Americans on the Internet. Its primary goal is sharing and disseminating information of interest to the African-American Internet community in the Northern California Bay Area.