Distribution technologies is the way broadcasters get their radio content to the audience. The radio content is the type of things they play for example; the music, talk shows, news etc... There is a variety of ways to re listen to recorded shows, the audience can listen to these on pod casts, iplayer, Internet, on mobile phones and many other places.
Pod casts are a type of a digital media which can have audio radios, videos, PDF or epub files. They are often listened to on portable media players, especially apple devices. Majority of radio stations would have pod casts online, for example; Absolute Radio has a variety of different pod casts on this website.
Some advantages of pod casting are:
- They can be downloaded and accessed easily.
- Prod cast gives the media different ways to communicate.
- The radio is there for entertainment and to listen to, but podcasts give the listeners a better opportunity to get involved.
Some disadvantages of pod casting are:
- Time consuming- It has been estimated that it takes 45 minutes to produce a 8 minute show.
- Some people may not want to download a file from the Internet in order to listen to a pod cast.
The iplayer is BBC's on demand radio technology. You can re listen to certain peoples shows for free, you can download the BBC Iplayer to certain mobile phones and ipods. You can also listen to live shows on the iplayer, but the recent shows are only on the Internet for 7days. Most radio programmes can be accessed globally, it is mainly sports broadcasts that are affected by the rights issues. Also ipods and iphones can not access the radio's on iplayer but computers can. On listen again you can listen to any radio shows which have been played recently and you have missed, you can listen to these shows at any time.
Independant production companies doesn't work for just one radio station they work for them all. They share their ideas with radio stations, these ideas will be sent via email or internet and they can be jingles, radio shows and more. They have their recording equipment at there home or office and they record and edit there own shows.
Reception platforms refers to how us the audience listen to radio stations.We can listen to the radio on normal radio stations, televisions, computers, tablets and mobile phones. Traditionally we listen and receive radio stations through a receiver. Terrestrial reception is when the radio station broadcast there shows from there studio and we receive it on stereos, televisions, cars etc... Satellite disks pick up radio stations so you can listen to it on TV and other places from space. Streaming is when you listen to radio shows live on the internet.
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