How Do Internet Radios Grow/Fail?

I used to be addicted to streaming Asian online radio stations on Winamp ever since I first started tuning in around 7 years ago. These Asian radios consist of "DJs" ranging from ages 13-25 that play the music they have on their playlists to their listeners. These DJs don't mix beats on a turntable, but they do however play the music you want to hear. Singing contests are hosted, with DJs and listeners as contestants, which really brought out people's personality in whoever had a nice voice or whoever is the humorous one. This tightened up the community because people will always stick around friendly people providing free service.

I remember staying up late at night going in the radio chat rooms to chat with DJs and request songs. The first Asian internet radio community I was introduced to was afRadio. I used to stay in their AIM chat rooms all day to chat with DJs and it was fun to request songs. Not long after, they realized AIM chat room limits the amount of people in there so they moved onto #afRadio on mIRC, where I hung out for a while. After some time, most DJs left because it was interfering with their academics, they lost interest, or they moved on to other radio stations. afRadio started to die down because it wasn't as interesting anymore. The DJs that left were the ones that kept the community together. I followed one of the afRadio DJs to a new Asian radio station, Sky Radio.

Sky Radio had the best forum! The forum was awesome because I was able to download my music and Asian movies from direct download links. I used to play catch-up on TVB series, so I counted on these people to provide me an episode a day to satisfy my addiction. Direct download links are hard to find and were easy to download from. After a while, people stopped putting them up and gave us torrent links instead. After a couple of years, they started to die down too because people got bored.

After that, I gave up on Asian media for a while and started to listen to the top 10 on Shoutcast.

Just recently, I started tuning into Big B Radio and noticed they have 3 radio stations within themselves. They have a main station where they play all Asian music, a Japanese station, and a Korean-Pop station. They have been doing a good job in keeping my ears company as for now. I haven't encountered any DJs on this station yet, but I'd prefer it to stay this way. If you're into Asian music, you should definitely go check it out.

P.S. I always liked Cantonese music but I don't know what caused the decline in the Hong Kong entertainment industry. They don't even hire singers for TVB theme songs anymore. The members of the cast sing the theme songs to TVB series.

Recognized DJs:
DJ drag - Head DJ and first DJ I tuned into on afRadio. He got me hooked! He's very innovative and always fun to listen to because he's so energetic.
DJ sora - The sweet talking Texan girl that every guy was hitting on. Her screenname was xsorax and a good friend of mine used to make fun of her name because that was the time when there was the anthrax scare. Good times!
DJ laydeeD - DJ that moved from afRadio to Sky Radio. I downloaded off of her on AIM all the time! She gave me most of the music that I wanted.
DJ fob - Humorous guy and known for singing Notorious MSG's Dimsum Girl in a fob accent. Epic!