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NPR's Car Talk Switches Back To RealAudio

Posted by simoniker on from the back-and-forth dept.

taped2thedesk writes "Today, NPR's Car Talk, a 'call in talk [radio] show about car mechanics', announced they were switching back to RealAudio, after dumping it for Windows Media a few months ago. When the show switched to Windows Media, Real took notice and convinced the show to switch back, by addressing various listener complaints about their player (many of which were fixed in RealPlayer 10). The hosts say: 'We believe [Real have] made a serious and successful attempt to address those things that our listeners complained about most... They even offered to serve the audio for free online, which defrays an expense we'd otherwise have to cover.'"

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  1. Sweet by darth_MALL · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now we can enjoy the worlds finest programming the way it was meant to be heard (:-P

  2. changing media players by Triumph+The+Insult+C · · Score: -1, Troll

    isn't going to help when the show itself is pretty bad. it has listeners?

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  3. Re:Public Radio should not even use MP3 streams. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now if only people like you would get so upset about killing babies!

  4. Great, more ways to spend taxpayer money by bigjnsa500 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sorry, but NPR needs to either be disbanded or moved to the private sector. I am frickin tired of my money going to fund this excessively liberal station. Public radio my ass. More like Liberal Radio. I'd rather have my money go to PBS instead of these fascists.

    Why didn't they just give a few hours to Frankenfurter and dyed-blond Garafuckolo?

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  5. NPR is clear channel for pathetic old hippies. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    NPR is so lame. The only good thing on it is that they sometimes have an in-station DJ doing a non-mainstream music show.

  6. MOD PARENT UP!! by hot_Karls_bad_cavern · · Score: 0, Troll

    This needs to be modded up due to the grandparent being possibly false.

    People, UPDATE your virus and adware scanners before running them and proclaiming yourself "clean". Damn.