The radio.com domain was formerly owned by
CNET Networks, which purchased it, and
tv.com from the nonprofit Internet Multicasting Service for $30,000 in 1996. CNET, and in turn the radio.com domain, was acquired by
CBS Corporation (the parent company of CBS Radio at the time) in 2008. Radio.com launched on July 16, 2010, under CBS Radio. It was originally launched as a central website to stream all of CBS's then 130 radio stations,
Last.fm and other CBS properties. The original features were currently-playing information, song history, station and genre search, presets, blogs, newsfeeds, and social media tools. Later that year the service launched its first app for
iOS. In addition the service added custom channels and music from
AOL Radio and
Yahoo Music. In 2015, the service added a music video streaming option. These deals eventually ended quietly, especially after AOL and Yahoo's mergers into
Oath. Entercom acquired CBS Radio, including Radio.com, on November 17, 2017. Throughout early and mid-2018, disparate individual mobile apps and sites for Entercom's legacy stations (sometimes developed outside Entercom by local third parties for individual stations and often not being hosted universally by one provider) were withdrawn from the
iTunes Store and
Google Play, uniting all of Entercom's web and mobile efforts for their properties solely under the Radio.com app and website. The CBS Radio stations, which were part of "CBS Local" sites with their former sister television stations, also saw their main web presences moved to sub-domains of Radio.com. Some of the former CBS Local domains in markets where CBS only had radio stations remained online until late 2021 despite no longer hosting local radio content, instead carrying content from the nearest
CBS-owned television station. On June 25, 2018, Entercom announced that Radio.com would become the exclusive streaming provider for all of its stations, ending its relationship with the third-party service
TuneIn. Stations previously owned by Entercom pre-merger were removed on July 6, and former CBS Radio stations were removed on August 1. At that time, Entercom's stations would also begin promoting the service, in particular, suffixing "a Radio.com station" after their legal
station identifications at the top of each hour.
Smart speaker integration of the service was launched within the same period. In October 2019, the app debuted a feature called "Rewind", where several of Entercom's spoken word content stations maintain a 24-hour on-demand buffer of programming that can be accessed through rewind, fast-forward, and skip back/forward controls. On March 30, 2021, Entercom rebranded the company and Radio.com as Audacy. The end tag of Audacy's station identifications was then changed to identify them as "an Audacy station", along with a seven-note
sounder whose tone varies with a station's format (such as a guitar playing it for a rock station, or a softer sound for a 'Mix'-like station). The end tag for all Audacy's stations was changed once again in July 2022 to "Always live on the free Audacy app." Audacy, Inc. put the Radio.com domain up for auction on December 29, 2022, with a minimum required bid of $2.5 million (
USD); by June 1, 2023, the auction had closed without a winner. As of March 2025, Audacy has sold its Radio.com domain & the website is operational as of December 2025. On July 19, 2022, Audacy announced a redesign of their player on their website and their app to include enhanced features such as "Enhanced Rewind" allowing listeners to rewind spoken-word programming, curated discovery of content, seamless cross-device functionality, and enriched podcast listening. In early January 2024, it was announced that Audacy would be preparing to file for bankruptcy within the upcoming weeks. On January 7, 2024, Audacy filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. As part of the bankruptcy reorganization, Audacy has made a deal with its creditors to transfer control to them while cutting approximately $1.6 billion of its debt. Investment firm
Soros Fund Management has emerged as the largest creditor in Audacy's prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, holding over $400 million of its highest-ranking debt. This debt is planned to be converted into equity in the restructured company, making Soros a significant shareholder. This investment aligns with Soros' recent media interests, including involvement in the acquisitions of
Vice Media and a minority stake in
Crooked Media. Under its proposed plan, existing shareholders will be wiped out, while high-ranking creditors will receive equity in the reorganized company. The plan requires court approval. Two weeks later, Radio.com reached deals to add
Bonneville International and
Cox Media Group stations and podcasts to the platform. On September 25, 2019,
Salem Media Group and
Alpha Media stations were made available on the service.
Beasley Broadcast Group stations joined the service on November 11, 2020. On November 25, 2019,
Disney Channels Worldwide agreed to terms to feature
Radio Disney and Radio Disney Country's streams on the service; they were removed in January 2021 as Disney wound down their American radio operations, excluding
ESPN Radio. Disney-branded music stations returned to the Audacy app in a new deal in August 2022. On August 17, 2021, Audacy announced a content distribution partnership with
Urban One to add its stations to Audacy. On September 15, 2021, Audacy announced that
Cumulus Media-owned radio stations and podcasts would be added. On May 23, 2023, Audacy signed a deal with
Allen Media Group's
The Weather Channel to carry the audio of the cable network, along with the streams of the Pattrn and Weather Channel en Español
FAST channels. After a five-year absence, Audacy's stations returned to TuneIn at the end of June 2023 as part of a new content partnership with the latter. ==Availability and supported devices==