Frequently Asked Questions - Pumpkin FM, Old Time Radio Network

You can now play all Pumpkin FM stations on your Alexa Smart Device!

Just say “Alexa, open Pumpkin FM”

For more information click here

Q. What format do you use to stream your channels?

A. All of our music channels are encoded using MP3. and Malvern Radio International has an additional stream in AAC @ 192Kbps

Q. What is the best way to listen to Pumpkin FM on a Desktop PC?

A. The best player to use on a desktop PC or laptop is Winamp. Click Here to Download a copy for your Windows PC or Click Here to Download a copy for MAC OSx

Once installed you can launch a channel in WinAmp by clicking below on the streams ‘listen.pls’ link:

BritCom 1 – LISTEN.pls

BritCom 2 – LISTEN.pls

BritCom 3 – LISTEN.pls

Crime Incorporated – LISTEN.pls

Radio England – LISTEN.pls

Strange Radio – LISTEN.pls

Venture Radio – LISTEN.pls

1940s Radio – Home Service – LISTEN.pls

American Comedy Gold LISTEN.pls

Radio Malvern Intl – LISTEN.pls

Radio Malvern Intl aacPlus stream – LISTEN.pls

Malvern Radio JRS – LISTEN.pls

(Windows should ask the first time you click one of the above links which program you would like to use the open it. Select Winamp and tick the box (always use this program)

Q. What is the best way to listen to Pumpkin FM on an Android Mobile/Tablet?

A. Download the Pumpkin FM – Old Time Radio Network App, available for Android mobiles, tablets, Chrome TV, Amazon Fire Phone & Amazon Fire Tablets.

Q. What is the best way to listen to Pumpkin FM on an Apple device?

For Apple (iOS), we recommend that you download the MyTuner App

Q. What is the best way to listen to Pumpkin FM on an Amazon Fire device?

A. For Amazon Fire devices, we recommend that you download the MyTuner App

PLEASE NOTE: We have had reports that apps can stop working when the screen on a mobile device or tablet switches off. If you experience this problem, please give the app permission to run in the background and remove it from the list of apps that battery optimization turns off when the screen is not in use.

Settings >> Device Maintenance >> Battery >> UnMonitored Apps >> Add Apps – “Add Pumpkin FM Old Time Radio Network App or other third party apps”

The above settings are correct for Phones running Android version 8 and above and was tested on a Samsung S8 Plus. Other OS versions and mobile phones may vary!

Q. I need the stream URL / IP address and Port number for my Internet Radio

A. You can use the following to manually program your Internet Radio

Q. I need the SSL links to your streams

A. You can connect to our channels using the following SSL encrypted URLs:-

BritCom 1 | https://cast2.asurahosting.com/proxy/britcom1/stream/

BritCom 2 | https://cast2.asurahosting.com/proxy/britcom2/stream/

BritCom 3 | https://cast2.asurahosting.com/proxy/britcom3/stream/

American Comedy Gold | https://cast2.asurahosting.com/proxy/americangold/stream/

Crime Inc. | https://cast2.asurahosting.com/proxy/crimeinc/stream/

Strange Radio | https://cast2.asurahosting.com/proxy/strangeradio/stream/

Venture Radio | https://cast2.asurahosting.com/proxy/ventureradio/stream/

Malvern Radio JRS | https://cast2.asurahosting.com/proxy/malvernradiojrs/stream/

Radio England | https://cast2.asurahosting.com/proxy/radioengland/stream/

Radio Malvern Int. | https://cast2.asurahosting.com/proxy/radiomalvernint/stream/

Radio Malvern Int. aac | https://cast2.asurahosting.com/proxy/radiomalvernintaac/stream/

1940s Radio | https://cast2.asurahosting.com/proxy/1940sradio/stream/

Q. Why do some programs end before they have finished?

A. Most of our spoken word channels are built on a weekly schedule of 336 half hour blocks. Every hour there are two shows. In an ideal world, programs would be a maximum of 26 – 28 minutes in length, but years ago it was quite common that programs would run for anywhere from 20 to 35 minutes in length or longer. So it does not take a brain surgeon to realize that two 35 minutes shows will not fit within an hour. We try to take this into consideration when creating the schedule for each channel. It is a very rare occurrence that you will miss the end from a show, but if this happens we apologize, but with over one hundred thousand episodes from hundreds of shows, inevitably you may experience this issue occasionally.

Q. The quality of some shows are very poor and hard to hear!

A. Many of our shows are 70 years old. They just aren’t going to have the same “high fidelity” sound quality that today’s generation is used to. Most of the shows sound pretty good though, considering their age. We do always try to use the best quality programs we can find. Many times we have replaced individual shows or whole series when we’ve found better sounding copies. We have over 100,000 shows in our collection. We haven’t had time to listen to all of them. We love old time radio and collecting shows. We do the best we can to broadcast the best shows we can find.