Streaming Radio Online: Your Comments
Post categories: Radio
| 14:45 UK time, Wednesday, 12 March 2008
On the 91Èȱ¬ Internet Blog a few weeks ago, I posted a piece about planned changes to our streaming, for both live and on-demand radio. It's a piece that has got quite a lot of comment, so (in order that I don't take over the Internet Blog, and also to highlight its content here) I thought it worth replying to the comments in turn. Which I'll do, as they say in all the best blogs, after the jump.
(I've always wanted to say that.)
Firstly, there was a number of questions about the formats we plan to use (which we're not making public quite yet, since I don't want to announce something that we discover we can't do).
Andrew Livingstone asked about the new formats and players we're using.
For on-demand radio, national networks will add a new format from April (with other stations following later); for live, new formats start in July-ish. It's important to note that we don't plan to remove, for now, any currently available format. If something works now, it'll continue to work.
Continue reading and comment on the Radio Labs Blog.
James Cridland is Head of Future Media & Technology for 91Èȱ¬ Audio & Music Interactive.
