...and that's why the "NPR One" app for smartphones is interesting -- when you begin a listening session, the first thing that plays is the most-recent hourly news update, then the series of stories / podcasts / programs.
For most folks, I suspect that "Tivoing" content is now much more common than "VCRing" content, and, specifically for folks younger than 40, much (if not most) TV watching is of "Tivoed" content or other content available via Netflix / Hulu / Amazon Prime. A relatively new term in our vocabulary is "binge watching". This means that NPR must play to these new consumption habits while not totally alienating the radio stations that cough up the dough to pay for the programming. Over in the swlfest group, the kvetching has been more the content of NPR's flagship shows (ATC, Morning Edition) than how they go to air. The challenges for NPR will be to figure out how to satisfy the podcast / on-demand audience, which tends to want a longer-form storytelling versus someone who's listening during a morning commute or while preparing breakfast / dinner. Of course, part of all this is the fact that the developed world's demands and interests run counter to the needs of emerging economies (think India, China, Vietnam) or the less-developed Southern Hemisphere. Clearly one paradigm doesn't fit all. And that's why I tend to think of the content discussion separate from the delivery platform discussion... RC On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Kevin Anderson via Internetradio <[email protected]> wrote: > > The ability to listen at my time of choosing does not change this, as I am > still tied to a device to listen and removing the aspect of start time isn't > enough to totally sway me. When I go out on my walks, I have no desire to > carry a device along and wear earbuds or headphones. And I am one of those > odd ducks that looks forward hourly to NPR providing a news update at 1 > minute after the hour, and am bothered if a program (such as occasionally > Performance Today, etc.,) doesn't provide that news breakaway. > _______________________________________________ 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.
