[Hastings Rock] Re: Internet stream
- From: jon bird <hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hrock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 19:59:33 +0000
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Good work Jon.
I think there's a real basis for something that could work here,
although we'd obviously have to sort out the details before committing
to it.
I agree that we should sort out the streaming service asap, in case we
want to use it.
I do have a couple of points/questions though:
*How many people are going to be able to listen to any internet
broadcast? I understand it's only 50 at present? We need more
coverage than that. How much would that cost & is that easy to set
up?
Assuming the streaming server people are still able to set things up for
us, it's fairly cheap. Last year I think I actually paid for 100
listeners (came to about £7.50/month) but because of the way we split
the bandwidth up (with two different bitrates) in theory that would have
given us 200. I think we could increase this figure once we're under way
if necessary, fairly sure I did that for someone else last year.
*Is it only DJs in the second category that can use their own music
for free choices etc? I'm guessing so.
In theory it would be possible for presenters to drag 'n drop audio
files onto the Playout machine, Teamviewer allows for that but it wasn't
something I was proposing to advertise to avoid over complicating
things.
*As we're only looking to cover the daytime is it worth going down
the specialist show route? I suggest not & think we should keep
things as simple as possible & have everything playlisted, with
free choices as normal. Nick & myself are still working on
updating the current playlist btw.
*What are we intending to broadcast when a live DJ is not available
& for the hours outside of the daytime when we won't be live
anyway? I'm guessing Robojock wouldn't work.
*My main concern is the amount of DJs we will have to cover the 28
days. The last thing we want is to have the same DJs on all the
time. My fear is that many won't be able to be involved due to not
having the equipment, but mainly because many won't have the
space/environment/peace & quiet in their household to do a live
broadcast. Barking dogs & children playing in the background etc
don't make for good radio. Let's not forget that many more people
are at home than normal atm, a situation that is likely to get
worse before it gets better. Kids are off school & many are
working from home. I have doubts that I'd be able to do a live
show for those reasons. Not trying to be negative, just playing
devils advocate.
I think it would be down for the committee as a whole to decide how
re-arrange the schedule for this, I suspect initially driven by DJ
availability. My initial thoughts are you may want to start out fairly
small scale, say just breakfast and drivetime live and build on that.
Robojock/automation are certainly an option however DJs have been
recording their shows for a good number of years now so we could re-air
some of those (even as a minimum I still have a stack of them on the
server from last year). I also don't see any reason why we should
abandon the specialist shows should people still want to do them. If we
still have the schedule from then, given they are all date/time stamped
it may be possible to air them in a sensible fashion. Simon also raised
the prospect of people pre-recording their shows in advance, with their
own music which is also viable.
I think flexibility has to be the thing here, we're used to working on a
schedule planned out for the next week and I think that is the wrong
approach here. Have a schedule that plans for the worst case - a lot of
automation/pre-recorded stuff but allow DJ's to come along on short
notice and say "hey I can do something between 3-4 today" - let them do
that. Or "I can record something tonight" which can then be slotted in
at a convenient time the following day. It could even be repeated at a
later date. Shake things up a bit, in a way it's quite fun not knowing
what you might hear when you turn on the radio....
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