The Graveyard

Each of the Dr. Demento stations that formerly broadcasted the show online, but no longer do, have been listed here.

There were 4 reasons:

• The "dot com crash" of 2000-2001 did in many stations, when all of a sudden, the free money was no longer there.
• The RIAA (record labels) demanded additional royalties for streaming music online. The RIAA just pretty much hates music on the Internet, as has been in the news everywhere lately.
• The AFTRA (voice talent) demanded additional royalties for streaming commercials online that used AFTRA actors. Many stations decided to stop streaming online altogether, since without commercials, they make no money.
• The distributor of the Dr. Demento show, Talonian Productions, asked stations to no longer stream the show online. It was unsure why they did this, as Talonian has no address, phone number, or web page. Talonian has just recently been revealed to be a holding company ran by Dr. D himself. I disagree with his decision, but it's his show. So it goes.

There were zero stations streaming the Dr. Demento show until RealAudio popularized streaming around 1996-1997 or so. In late 2000, the number of simultaneous online Dr. Demento stations was at an all-time high: 20 stations! Now, unfortunately, it has since returned to zero. It was fun while it lasted, don't you think?

Station	Buried	Epitaph
KJEM	11/2000	Blocked by Clear Channel
KIKX	12/2000	Contract dispute with StreamAudio.com
WRZZ	1/2001	Online feed used to be very well-administered, sigh....
WRCK	1/2001	Quietly went AWOL
WXRG	3/2001	First to stop streaming because of then-just-announced RIAA fees
KEYN	4/2001	Blocked by Yahoo because of AFTRA
WMZK	4/2001	Stopped streaming because of AFTRA
KLDJ	8/2001	Quietly went AWOL
WLUP	12/2004	"Rising royalty costs and bandwidth charges have forced us to stop streaming..."
KOZZ	1/2006	Talonian "won't let us stream the show"
WIPS	1/2006	Quietly disappeared
KURE	2/2006	"Couldn't afford the rates to stream"
KLFX	2/2006	I'm guessing Clear Channel grew tired of Talonian's games?
WKTG	4/2006	Seems to have entirely stopped streaming online
KOZT	8/2006	Asked by Talonian "not to stream the show anymore"
WQMA	8/2006	Couldn't raise enough money to pay Talonian fees
WKIT	10/2006	A shame they canceled the show, this station was a favorite
KACV	2/2007	Yep, Talonian again
WTKW	3/2007	"...increases from 300 to 1200 percent... we have discontinued our internet streaming"
KYYS	4/2007	I miss KYYS, they were one of the very first stations to carry the show online
WOZZ	5/2007	Contract has expired
WBLM	5/2007	Was unpredictable to begin with, eventually gave up
WPYX	5/2007	Because WPYX kept streaming, Talonian kept "forgetting" to supply new shows to them
WLVQ	9/2007	Quietly dropped the show, probably at request of Talonian
KEGR	10/2007	Alt Forum Heroically kept playing old rerun shows even after Talonian quit sending them new ones
KRDE	10/2007	The final station! I agree wholeheartedly with the explanation on their page!

What's unusual is that during all this time, there were very few stations that actually canceled the show due to lack of listener demand. It was mostly due to corporate policy, format changes, inability to afford royalties needed for streaming, and so on. Before the Talonian situation, only 3 stations were known to have canceled the show on their own.