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Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 WHAT IS RADIO ON THE WEB?

• What's new about the New Medium?
• The Internet on the phone system
• The Web floats on the Internet
• Bringing radio to the Web
• Radio was an interactive medium
• Vertical vs. Horizontal radio communication
• Radio listening was shaped in the Broadcast Century
• A note on DAB
• Summary
• Further reading

Chapter 2 ...AND WHAT WEB RADIO ISN'T

• Convergence of digitalised media technologies
• Divergence of media uses
• Radio's relationship with the music industry
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• The many forms of audio on the internet
• Streaming
• Downloading and shopping for music online
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• Downloading radio programmes at high sound quality
• Web radio's relationship to other radio transmission routes
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• Radio in the visual world of multimedia
• The web site is the web radio station's 'front door'
• Web sites with additional audio
• Interactivity and the visual
• Web TV
• A Summary of Intersections for Web Radio
• Further reading
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Chapter 3 STREAM RECEIVERS AND HOW THE LISTENER LISTENS

• How streaming works - an overview
• 'Packet switching' technology
• A note on 'embedded' audio files
• Starting the stream
• ISP connections, bandwidth and connection speeds
• The common tools of compression - streaming software products
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• Desktops and laptops as radios
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• Off the shelf dedicated web radio devices
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• Portable radio around the house
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• Web radio back in the ether?
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• Summary
• Further reading

Chapter 4 STREAMING RADIO OUTPUT

• Scalability
• Who runs the server?
• Host streaming services
• Running your own server
• Selecting your audience
• Measuring your audience
• Encoding and streaming server software products
• Managing the server
• The streaming studio
• Summary
• Further reading

Chapter 5 ESTABLISHED RADIO BROADCASTERS ON THE WEB

• Interactivity on the station website
• Virginradio.co.uk case study
• The simulcast stream of the terrestrial output
• Radio Netherlands case study
• Archive streams of parts of the terrestrial output
• CFUV FM case study
• The addition of 'side channels'
• Summary

Chapter 6 INTERNET-ONLY STATIONS and other adventures in web radio

• Interactivity and the website
• RadioValve case study
• Using a host to handle radio streaming
• Pulse Radio case study - Global Dance Radio
• Radio Voix Sans Frontières (Voices Without Frontiers) case study
• Web radio across the digital divide
• Kothmale Community Radio Internet Project (KCRIP) case study
• Summary - web radio is an experiment

Chapter 7 ONE VOICE IN A VERY LARGE CROWD: GETTING HEARD

• Some audience principles - push and pull
• The hyperlink is the key
• Web radio portals or aggregating sites
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• Other online radio tuners
• Web radio directories, large and small
• Outsourcing promotion
• Registering your own domain name
• The front end - web page design
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• Reputation
• Offline promotion
• Building a brand
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• Summary
• Further reading

Chapter 8 COPYRIGHT ON WEB RADIO

• Established music copyright arrangements for terrestrial broadcasts
• Music copyright in the digital environment
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• National vs international agreements
• The precautionary approach
• A copyright checklist
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• Ownership vs consumption models
• Non-musical copyright
• Protecting your own copyright
• Summary
• Further reading
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Chapter 9 FREE SPEECH ON WEB RADIO

• Reasons for regulating radio
• Problem areas
• Zoning and filtering
• Horizontal media and centralised control
• Summary - Is freedom of speech safe on web radio?
• Further reading

Chapter 10 REDEFINING RADIO CONTENT

• Music presentation on web radio
• Factual speech on web radio
• Non-factual speech on web radio: drama, comedy, entertainment
• Audience participation and talk on web radio
• Experiments in horizontal radio on the web
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• Summary
• Further reading

Chapter 11 SCHEDULING FOR REDEFINED AUDIENCES

• Programmes vs. programming
• Patterns of listening
• Time shifting
• The locality of the listener
• Global communities
• Addressing a community of interest
• Individual programmes for specific communities
• Feedback and the effects of accurate audience measurement
• Summary
• Further reading

Chapter 12 SO HOW IS WEB RADIO DIFFERENT? A checklist

• Review of the characteristics of the technologies
• Web radio as part of the mosaic of radio platforms
• Ways of being a web station
• Regulation and control
• Content

Appendix 1 Glossary

Appendix 2 Useful websites

Appendix 3 Bibliography

Index

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