The BBC start their podcast trial - how long until RTE follow suit?
Published May 25th, 2005 in GeneralThe BBC have set up a podcast trial, I wonder when RTE will join the club and offer a similar service?
Despite the disputes at the BBC, the organisation consistently shows itself to be forward thinking when it comes to new mediums of communication with their audience.
Personally I can’t wait for the day when Newstalk 106 start podcasting.
Thanks to del.ico.us.
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The BBC are ledge-wands … and I doubt RTE will EVER catch up to them. Aside from Podcasting and RSS which they’ve been early-adopters of, the Beeb realise that since all they’re content is funded by the government, it’s effective ownership is the general populace. So in what SO MANY other news and media organisations should do, they’ve open’ed up their archives, and plan to provide on-line, free access to all the documentaries and series they ever made.
And what’s more is they’ve launched http://backstage.bbc.co.uk where you can actually re-mix their content and develop your own delivery solutions for it!
To allow podcasts RTE would have to pay the MCPS, IMHRO and the record companies. For a free service that does not get any of the license fee money this is difficult.
I’m not talking about content from 2FM, I’m talking about the news, etc. This is material that is already made available on their website for free, so why not let people subsribe to it. By recognising webfeeds/RSS as the most important push application since email, RTE stand to profit from positioning themselves in this sphere.
Hello
The Quantum Leap is RTE Radio 1’s weekly science series.
As of this week we’re podcasting, the feeds is
www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_quantumleap.xml
Many thanks
Ella McSweeney
[producer]
great to hear The Quantum Leap time shifted. nice to see science heading the agenda. The Quantum Leap MP3 is in variable bit rate (VBR), may I suggest a fixed bit rate MP3 as VBR fails on a selection of MP3 players. now I’m waiting on Balfe Street to podcast
once RTE sticks it to the music industry like they did with streaming, ie “if the industry don’t accept the format RTE wont play them”! (at all), just like the rest of us podcasters have to deal with. RTE on streaming proved it can be done.
Hello Ella at RTE,
great to see you have started to get the ball rolling at RTE. Would you have a word with your colleagues in the newsroom and tell them to start podcasting. There’s a few million of us abroad who are waiting for this service.
Thanks in advance !!
Niall Barrett,
Munich,
Germany
Niall Barrett…please get in touch
an old friend from our days in Nurnberg
Ray Walker