{"id":371,"date":"2010-10-16T02:02:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T02:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dgen.net\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:26:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T23:26:53","slug":"webcasting-radio-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2010\/10\/16\/webcasting-radio-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Webcasting radio = innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big shout out to <a href=\"http:\/\/rinse.fm\/\">RinseFM<\/a> who just got their FM license [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2010\/oct\/10\/rinse-fm-ofcom-licence\">Guardian<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/standard\/article-23886954-give-radio-pirates-safe-haven-says-dj-who-inspired-dizzee.do\">Evening Standard<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>This is the second station I&#8217;ve helped with streaming that&#8217;s ended up with an FM license (the first was <a href=\"http:\/\/resonancefm.com\/\">Resonance FM<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Having put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginradio.co.uk\/\">Virgin Radio<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalkiss.com\/\">Kiss FM<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicfm.co.uk\/\">Classic FM<\/a> streams online in the mid-90s, and then all of the regional Emap &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_City_Network\">Big City<\/a>&#8221; stations online, it&#8217;s good to see webcasting acting as the catalyst for incubating, innovating,\u00a0 and enabling new talent and embryonic stations to grow.<\/p>\n<p>The great folks at Emap gave me this brilliant quote after we launched their stations: \u201cI would recommend them to anyone undertaking a project involving streaming media of any size\ufffd?. The fun stuff is to flex at the small end, not the large, and see if you can flip the dial (Rinse get a substantial online audience, not that far off what Virgin Radio got in its early days of streaming &#8211; and at that time, Virgin was the most listened-to station on the web).<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a process that takes many, many years and doesn&#8217;t fit with any kind of funding or related creative support structure that we have. There&#8217;s definitely a need (I&#8217;ve helped dozens of community-led projects get going), but very little in the way of useful infrastructure that works without getting in the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big shout out to RinseFM who just got their FM license [Guardian, Evening Standard]. This is the second station I&#8217;ve helped with streaming that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6,10,9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-media","category-music","category-webcasting","category-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/rinselogo1-1.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-5Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}