Web Radio

10 Redefining radio content

 

 

 

Having considered the technical, legal and ethical considerations thrown up by web radio, I move on in the next two chapters to look at their implications for what we can hear on web radio: the nature of the content of programmes; the organization of programmes into schedules; and the part the audience plays in this dynamic. This book has shown already, I think, that web radio is something other than merely another distribution mechanism for radio. Yes, we can hear the same programmes through both terrestrial and Internet receivers, but web radio also allows us to tune in to a great quantity of other listening if we want it. But what precisely does or can the programme maker do to create web offerings that are ...