We stream live on two different SHOUTcast stations. The day I saw the news about Winamp's shutdown one of the stations announced they were closing up shop on December 1st. They sighted a loss of key staff people, so it might be unrelated.

The other station uses Wavestreaming.com, which is built on SHOUTcast infrastructure. Their blog notes the following:

"At present we don’t currently know if this affects SHOUTcast and what AOL’s future is for the platform. We wish to remind people that there is much speculation online, however, it is just that – speculation. Microsoft are in talks with AOL for a buyout, which could make the future very bright for SHOUTcast."

and

"All Wavestreaming services will continue operating as normal and there will not be any interruption to service. We would like to note that Wavestreaming is an online radio provider, building new and easy to use tools to get up and broadcasting on the web, no matter what the platform."

So I don't know. I was trying to find an answer to this myself. I was using them as a sort of barometer as to whether SHOUTcast is shutting down or not. I can't imagine with 50,000+ stations on SHOUTcast that they'll just pull the plug. If they do, perhaps Microsoft will save the day?