Thank you for choosing to listen to 97.5 The Fanatic online! This station is utilizing StreamTheWorld, an international streaming service company to broadcast its signal to the Internet. During the broadcast, you may notice periods of intermittent interruptions, or silence, which is normal. These periods of silence are covering local on-air commercials, which we are not allowed to broadcast over the internet. Please be assured that you have not lost the stream, as the broadcast should resume after the commercial set is over (commercial sets vary from two to five minutes long).
This new and improved streaming media service supports PC, MAC and Linux users! To ensure that that you are able to fully enjoy this steam, please make sure that your computer has the latest free and computer safe Flash Player.
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If you do not have the latest Flash Player please click on the following link that will redirect you to the Adobe download center:
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
If you are unable to launch this station's media player after clicking on the listen link, and you receive the following error displayed below, please mouse over the error message and select "Always Allow Pop-ups from This Site". As a shortcut, you may also hold down your CTRL key and click on the listen link to launch the player.
The problem could lie in the Internet Explorer configurations. There are a few steps to rectify the situation.
First please make sure that you have the latest version of Internet Explorer, you can find it here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx
Secondly, open Internet Explorer click on "Tools" and select "Internet Options" in the drop down menu. A window will open, select the "Advanced" tab. At the bottom you will see "Reset Internet Explorer Settings", click on "Reset...". Be aware that by doing this all your cookies, temporary files and add-ons will be deleted and/or disabled. Close Internet Explorer.
Reopen Internet Explorer, you should be redirected to a welcome page. Do NOT turn on automatic Phishing Filter, this is critical, if you do turn it on you need to go back to step 1. Please note that you can be asked if you want to turn on the automatic Phishing Filter at any time during your browsing experience, do NOT turn it on.
Make sure that you have the latest version of Flash Player, you can get it here: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
Last, try to listen to the station you were trying to listen to and let us know if your problem is fixed.
If you have Flash installed, but you keep receiving a message from the player that you do not, please try another browser. Trying to connect to the stream through another browser will see if it's not just a problem with your current browser's configurations.
Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
If you cannot hear the stream, or other streams using Adobe Flash Player, please turn off your virus protection software, and try to reconnect. If you are able to connect after turning off your virus protection, you may need to disable your pop up blocker or add the web page's URL to your trusted sites section. Please consult your virus program's help files for these configurations.
If your system is behind a firewall (typical at an office network), please contact your network administrator to open up your firewall to allow your system to access this stream via port 80 or verify that they allow streaming media to be played over the network.
If you have configured some parental controls, please temporarily disable and see if you can connect to the stream. If successful, you may need to alter to your settings in order to listen to the stream.
You may also refresh the player by hitting either the F5 button, or the Control and R buttons together.
If you are still having problems accessing this stream, please email webmaster@975thefanatic.com to assist you with any troubleshooting issues you might have to ensure that you are able to fully enjoy this station online!