There's a potential policy shift in the works that would benefit those of us who listen to BBC Radio's domestic services online.
Radio 4 generally has a given program available on-demand for only one week, at which time it becomes unavailable. If you visit the Radio 4 website at least once per week, and only listen to a weekly series, this isn't an inconvenience. However, if your listening is more sporadic, and you don't always visit the website every seven days or less, you can miss out on some excellent programming. For some Radio 4 series, the BBC has temporarily added the capability to listen to *all* episodes to date for a current series beyond the one week deadline. There's also an online survey regarding the usefulness of the "catch-up" option. One series that's heralded as part of this trial is "A River Runs Through It", a three-part documentary on the Jordan River, but since the documentary is being presented on three consecutive days, it already makes sense that all three episodes would still be available (since the 3rd episode aired this past Wednesday). See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mk82m for more details regarding the trial - look to the bottom of the page. Richard -- Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA International broadcasting / shortwave blog: http://www.intlradio.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
