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[Swprograms] New BBCWS website capability - segments of flagship news programs available individually
- Subject: [Swprograms] New BBCWS website capability - segments of flagship news programs available individually
- From: Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 10:37:40 -0400
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Looks like the web lackeys in Bush House are gradually implementing
something I've suggested -- that they should make portions of their
news programs available for individual listening.
For "Europe Today" , "Newshour" and "World Update" one can listen to
selected individual stories, as well as a "best of..." audio archive.
For "World Today" the setup is different -- three daily editions
(2200, 0200, 0600) are listed with subjects and running times for each
story. You can then use Real Player's "fast forward" / "rewind"
capabilities to jump right to the segment of interest. Not as good as
parsing individual stories but it's a start.
I frankly think the optimal solution is a combination of the two --
keep the time oriented rundown as for "The World Today" but then parse
stories individually so you don't have to "hunt" with Real Player.
This is how the Radio 4 program "Today" is archived.
This means that most of the major English language world radio news
magazines --
CBC's "The Current", "As It Happens", and "Sunday Edition",
ABC's "AM", "PM", and "The World Today",
the BBCWS programs listed above,
BBC Radio 4's "Today" and "The World Tonight",
RTE's "Five Seven Live", and
NPR's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered",
all can be listened on-demand, by segment, or least by some means of
subdividing the whole program (as CBC does it). This is an
interesting development in the transformation of radio...at least to
me, anyway.
My guess is that Radio New Zealand's "National Radio" programming will
see improved by-segment archival when the service is relaunched later
this year.
Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA
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