It will have little to no impact, for a number of reasons. First, the dropping of Real formats by the BBC started a long time ago and most of the online listings that internet radios depend on (Reciva.com, Vtuner, etc.) have absorbed this already. Beyond that, most support either or both of Windows media and MP3 so nothing really has changed in that regard. As Rich noted, much of the material is available in MP3, too, they just don't publicize it. Finally, they won't stop supporting the Apple world so something beyond WMA will be there even if not promoted.
Flash is a bigger problem as most internet radios do not support Flash. What we've seen though is that once the purveyors realize that Flash only cuts out a huge segment of the audience (keep in mind that you don't find Flash on many Apple devices... at least not "officially") they add a non-Flash stream. There are a few radio stations that don't get this including at least one in Columbus. -- -Rob de Santos Columbus, OH -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Anderson [mailto:k9...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 11:17 AM To: Internet radio discussion Subject: Re: [Internetradio] BBC World Service to end use of Real Media this month I have not purchased an internet radio appliance - how will they deal with this change? Do any appliances run Flash? Or will appliances be left to do Windows media formats only? Kevin Anderson -- ------------------------------------- Kevin Anderson, Dubuque IA USA, K9IUA k9iua (at) yahoo (dot) com ------------------------------------- --- On Wed, 3/16/11, Richard Cuff <rdc...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Richard Cuff <rdc...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Internetradio] BBC World Service to end use of Real Media this month > To: "Internet radio discussion" <internetradio@hard-core-dx.com> > Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 10:29 PM > As of March 14th, live and on-demand > programming will no longer be > offered in Real Media format; only Windows Media and Flash > alternatives will be offered. The World Service > claims that both of > these formats have eclipsed Real Media in percentage of > listening. > > See http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/institutional/2011/03/110314_real_cessation.sh tml > . > > Left unstated is the fact that downloadable audio > (positioned as > podcasts, actually) is available in MP3 format. > > -- > Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA > > International broadcasting / shortwave blog: > http://www.intlradio.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Internetradio mailing list > Internetradio@hard-core-dx.com > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to internetradio-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, > or visit the URL shown above. > > > _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list Internetradio@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to internetradio-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list Internetradio@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to internetradio-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
