Smithtown radio station goes on hiatus
Photo credit: Steve Pfost | James Brierton broadcasts on SmithtownRadio.com from a studio in the basement of his parents’ home in Nesconset last year. Brierton and four of his old high school buddies are the staff of SmithtownRadio.com, an Internet radio station that started as an after-school project five years ago. They've kept it going ever since. (August 2, 2011)
An online radio station run by Smithtown college students has gone silent.
SmithtownRadio.com, the Internet-based station begun eight years ago as a student project at Great Hollow Middle School in Nesconset, dropped its live-stream broadcast at midnight on Saturday.
Program director and disc jockey James Brierton said the station is on hiatus while its young announcers focus on their...