HT4325 I can use airplay on iMac but not iPad or iPhones

My iMac streams music to my Apple TV units and I have the airplay icon appear. I can happily stream music to different speakers from my iMac.
I am using Pandora to play music on my iMac and would like to stream it to different speakers. I thought I could do this using either my iPhones (4S & 5) and iPad2 but no such luck. It would appear that I cannot stream to the AppleTVs as they are first generation but they happily work with the iMac?!?
Am I missing something or is there a way I can achieve streaming from these devices using Airplay?
Background: The wifi is fine, all devices are using the same system and are connected using a router. It works well for the iMac using itunes but alas Pandora is not available on itunes.
Any suggestions?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
No you aren't doing anything wrong, the first generation Apple TV can't receive streams from an iOS device.

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