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Web Radio by Chris Priestman

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Contents

 

 

Preface

Acknowledgements

 

  1 What is radio on the Web?

What’s new about the New Medium?

The Internet on the phone system

The Web floats on the Internet

Bringing radio to the Web

Radio was an interactive medium

Vertical versus horizontal radio communication

Radio listening was shaped in the Broadcast Century

A note on DAB

Summary

Further reading

 

  2 …And what web radio isn’t

Convergence of digitalized media technologies

Divergence of media uses

Radio’s relationship with the music industry

The many forms of audio on the Internet

Streaming

Downloading and shopping for music online

Downloading radio programmes at high sound quality

Web radio’s relationship to other radio transmission routes

Radio in the visual world of multimedia ...

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