So, it seems you can get the Internet Radio to show itself. After giving up a couple of days ago after my initial investigation after concluding that the Zune Team had probably not left enough resources in the software for it to work, I came across a picture from Rafael Riveria showing it working. My first thought, “BUGGER, why did I give up?!”. Of course my second thought was well, lets get it working. And its pretty much exactly how I thought it would work when I tried two days ago, except I had made one little error… here’s how to do it yourself, though be warned, it has practically no functionality at all.

Open RegEdit, Navigate to HKCU/Software/Microsot/Zune/Shell, and modify the value of “StartupPage” to “Collection\Radio”. Then, relaunch your Zune Software, and say hello!

Seemingly me and Raf have achieved it slightly differently, presumably he hacked his way in, meanwhile I just kinda tricked the software into doing it. Though his way does seem a little better considering he can actually get the word “radio” to show up along side podcasts and channels