[access-uk] Re: Plextalk Pocket and BBC AudioFactory

  • From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 19:50:20 -0000

Hi David,

They are not just picking on blind people with their specialist devices
though.  Windows Media streaming is very old if not ancient tech, and they
need to move on I guess.

All the best

Steve

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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
David Griffith
Sent: 21 February 2015 21:50
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Plextalk Pocket and BBC AudioFactory

Yes it is clear that the BBC want to dissuade people from using these 
streams. Hence their lack of signposting to these alternative streams 
and the abandonment of online football and Cricket through these 
streams, compared to the service provided on the previous Windows Media 
format.

Given that these sports feeds are by far the most popular spoken word 
radio content the BBC broadcast this seriously affects the credibility 
of these so called replacement streams. The BBC themselves announce the 
importance of this coverage for viable radio. during the last Ashes the 
BBC announced that even on the long wave Radio 4 the radio audience 
listening to the Ashes Cricket dwarfed any other radio 4 content. They 
announced this on a Feedback program to explain why it was inconceivable 
that they could accede to some request from Radio 4 listeners for 
cricket to be removed and only hosted on Five Live Sports Extra. 
Apparently it is necessary to protect cricket coverage for the Radio 4 
Long wave audience but perfectly acceptable to remove it for blind folk 
using specialist devices.

David Griffith


On 21/02/2015 18:52, Mike Ray wrote:
> But as I said in my original post the shoutcast streams will only be
> available for about another year.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On 20/02/2015 09:30, Pele West wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> The Plextalk Pocket will play the BBC Shoutcast streams. I downloaded
>> them from the Mikesradioworld website.
>>
>> Please write to me off-list if you need any more information.
>>
>> Pele West
>>
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