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Discussion on various topical issues ranging from sports to entertainment, or hardcore politics has long been a major draw among the audience. Such discussions conducted with a panel of experts on a talk show are something that most of us find irresistible. What has made the talk shows click is the increased degree of listener participation involved in a show. The audience can voice their opinions and pose questions to the panel anytime during the show. With the introduction of Internet based talk radio stations, talk shows have now become even more interactive and cost effective in terms of production.
Internet talk radios are flexible and have a wider accessibility. Listeners can be stationed anywhere in the world but still can listen to and interact on the talk show programs. All they need is a computer and Internet connection to begin with. Apart from that the cost effective nature of Internet talk radios has made it a profitable business option for many entrepreneurs. As compared to the traditional radios, Internet talk radios are a way ahead in technology and usability. The advertisements can be transmitted in between the breaks of a program as well as during the show at a corner of the webpage. The increasing Internet usage among the audience can only improve viewership count and increase the page views thereby resulting in more ad revenues.
The technology involved in the distribution of Internet talk radio shows is through streaming technology. The data are transmitted over the network in the form of small data packets (TCP/ UDP), which are then compiled together, and played. The streaming technology uses audio codecs (a program that compresses and decompresses digital audio data). The common way to stream is by using lossy audio codec. Among the most popular codecs is the MP3 codec along with Ogg Vorbis, Real Audio and Widows Media Audio.
Internet talk radios will evolve in terms of technology and interactivity in the years to come. A few years back, not many had even heard of an Internet talk radio, but this is now turning into an entertainment and advertising medium as well. A wide audience base, increasing popularity, superior technology and good advertisement revenues will surely make Internet talk radios a way of life.
Alfred Anderson has rich experience in the field of online brand marketing. His interests includes Internet marketing and research on emerging online business trends. Internet Radio Networks
I consider myself to be lucky in that I was a teenager during the tumultuous years of the 60s. The changes we were part had a lasting impact on the world we now call home.
Music reflected, and in some cases incited, those changes and heard it all on the radio. In fact radio changed with us during those years as well with the emergence of free-form “underground” radio on the little used FM band.
We are in change again in 2009. While the transition may be less “in your face” than it was in the late 1960s, it will have no less of an impact, and again radio is reflecting those changes. There are few who would not acknowledge that the online revolution is truly upon us – that our lives are inextricably interwoven wit the internet, and we couldn’t undo it if we wanted to.
The impact can perhaps be best seen by looking at what is going on in contemporary radio. AM radio stations are now largely talk, and in many ways the political pundits who make their living being outraged at whatever is in the news are reminiscent of the old time preachers who plied their trade on the air several decades ago. Even FM radio, once the last bastion of creative freedom, is now so over-commercialized that one could scarcely recognize it.
Enter internet radio.
If you haven’t ventured into the world of online radio you have a great awakening coming. Every musical style and taste is catered for, and in many ways it’s that sheer volume of choices that reflects those social changes that we are living through.
Internet radio has done something else that perhaps will have even a greater impact – it has loosened the stranglehold that a few large corporations have on the electronic media. For those of us old enough to remember, we saw this happen as FM emerged as a viable radio medium.
It’s happening again, only this time the low cost of entry into the market and the fact that there is no practical limit to the number of stations that can broadcast online means that the genie is well and truly out of the bottle.
I hear critics belittle online radio as something that will never compete with AM and FM stations because it isn’t mobile. Well guess what, the cell phone companies and wireless internet providers have already taken care of that little problem, and US auto makers are now including internet radio receivers in some models of new cars.
To be fair there is still some time before the gap closes between AM and FM broadcasters and those stations streaming over the internet. In my view this is a good thing as online broadcasters still need some time to polish their act. There is no doubt, however, that the time of parody is coming.
John Peterson is a 30+ year radio veteran and champion of online radio. He is an online broadcaster operating several stations, and author of the book Internet Radio: How to do it! – a book that molds traditional radio programming techniques to online radio. http://www.internetradiohowto.com
‘Sebastian Faulks told me I was bonkers’: Rachel Wagstaff on bringing Birdsong to the stage
The roll-call of big names who have been attached to the project is impressive: Sam Mendes, Michael Mann, Joe Wright and Peter Weir, to name a few. Yet, 17 years have passed and still there is no sign of the silver-screen adaptation of Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks’ bestselling First World War epic of love and loss, camaraderie and abandonment, rampant sex and ruthless slaughter.
