Re: [Swprograms] Broadcasting's future

["Scott Royall" <royall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I really wish I could, but I'm limping along on disability these days.
Would-be employers run away when they see the wheelchair.
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Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Broadcasting's future

Ah, OK.  Definitely worth a listen.  However, this concept of a
"clearinghouse" shouldn't surprise anyone -- much of the US public
broadcasting output -- with the exception of NPR's news programming --
works on this model.  The Public Radio Exchange -- which I've touted
here before -- is 100% based on that model.

This dovetails nicely with the principal segment of the BBCWS' "Over
To You" this past week.  A Brazilian listener grumbled that "Have Your
Say" demeans the role of the BBC in that listeners trust the BBC to
vet the news and insight it presents -- whereas it seemed to this
listener that "Have Your Say" provided too easy of an opportunity for
people with opinions grounded in neither perspective nor research to
sound off...that the program was "too interactive".

The BBC and other international broadcasters are reducing their levels
of vertical integration -- the BBC no longer owns its transmitters;
increasingly programs are produced by third parties.  Content
aggregation sites like iTunes and YouTube reduce the need for a
"broadcaster" such as the BBC to exist.

Scott, you should join us in Kulpsville one of these years...we sit
around and cogitate stuff like that during the days and evenings...

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA

On 3/4/07, Scott Royall <royall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No, did you listen to the program? It is a BBC discussion of the future of
> "broadcasting." They are specifically focusing on news operations, but the
> inferences are general in nature. The gist is that the one-way nature of
> broadcasting is changing. That organizations such as the BBC are morphing
> into clearinghouses of content. The presenter made a few interesting
remarks
> about the transmitters. One person even made the scandalous suggestion
that
> even the BBC's future is not guaranteed. (I can already hear the
high-pitch
> howl of Luddites spooling up in their graves now. :))
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