Hi Andrew - they won't get pulled and we are hoping to have all the local station content migrated soon.... We will hopefully have Local Radio running in iPlayer in RealPlayer format this week and more feeds should come to life then. After that we are rolling out national and local stations in MP3 / Flash format (national in December, Local to follow next year) Cheers,
::: John O'Donovan ::: Chief Architect, BBC FM&T Journalism ::: BBC Broadcast Centre ::: 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS ::: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ::: http://www.bbc.co.uk <http://www.bbc.co.uk/> ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 November 2008 15:58 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] XML feeds for local radio stations I'm the webmaster of www.iplayerconverter.co.uk, which provides easy to use RealAudio links for iPlayer radio content based on the feeds generously made available by the Beeb - specifically the /programmes and Audio on Demand XML feeds. I've noticed that some of the BBC Local Radio stations are now starting to appear within the new /programmes structure. For example you can use the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/programmes/schedules/today.xml to get today's schedule for Radio Norfolk in XML format. Does anyone know when the local radio stations will be added to the index of stations at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes and thus be considered 'official'? I'm slightly wary of starting to use these local radio XML feeds if they are going to be moved or pulled in the near future. On a similar vein, does anyone know when the move of local radio to iPlayer is likely to happen, and thus the Audio on Demand data become available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/availability/[network].xml in the same way as the national stations are? I've had a number of users asking me when I can start to support their favourite local radio station Andrew Dancy Reincubate - accelerating growth of start-up & entrepreneurial businesses http://www.reincubate.com
