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Podcasting from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
AttheCoalFace writes "The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is piloting a podcast availability project. Quirks & Quarks, an hour-long weekly science review, is offered in the first, small list of programs." Q&Q is a great show, too.
Q & Q Archive hours of interesting stuff.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
As is the ABC. And the BBC is doing it too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4566059.stm
BBC podcast trial http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/downloadtrial/
BBC Collective guide to podcasting http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A3847737
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been trialling podcasting for a few weeks now. DIG, an Internet only station has podcasting (http://www.abc.net.au/dig/podcast/), Triple J, a youth orientated station (http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/listen/podcast.htm) and Radio National, content orientated to older audiences (http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/listen/podcast.htm) are all running trials for podcasting. Good to see the Candian public broadcasters are joining the Aussies ;)
I always wondered where this setting was...
Australia's ABC radio national is currently testing podcasting as well, and should have it available to the public in the next week or so. There's a little fine tuning going on, and working out how to work around copyright restrictions - some radio shows have content they aren't licensed to allow downloads of, only to stream, so the podcasted shows are often edited.
Not a problem with their science & commentary ones, which are the most worth listening to IMHO.
Incidentally CBC does not advertise itself or play adverts on their tv/radio channels. They are fully subsidised by the Canadian government and don't give a toss whether anyone listens to their broadcasts or not.
??? The CBC televsion channel that I receive (here in the outskirts of Outer Southern Ontario. Maybe some pirates are manipulating with the signal) is jam packed with as much advertising as any other channel. The CBC most certainly does give a toss whether they have viewers, as the government continually talks about kicking them off the teat.
The subsidization of the CBC isn't to provide a freebie channel, but to allow them to pursue risky and likely unprofitable exercises of Canadiana (e.g. historical shows), but overall the CBC does strive to be sustaining.
CBC Television has advertisements (though it didn't always, if I recall correctly). CBC Radio does not have ads.
free speach
Did you mean: free speech
Quirks and Quarks has been on the air as long as I can remember, first with another host that does CBC work still, but Bob McDonald has done the radio show for about the last decade. Before that you could find him hosting Wonderstruck, a science program for kids shown on CBC Saturday morning TV, and was definitely on par with Bill Nuye the Science Guy shows. Bob also does science segments on The National, Canada's nightly nationally broadcast news on CBC's primary station available to nearly anyone with a TV set.
Q&Q has been available online in Real Audio format since about 1997, and you can find a great deal of very interesting and informative stuff in the CBC archives. If you've not been listening to Q&Q for the last 15 years, you've got a lot of 1 hour, comercial free shows to catch up on.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
If ya want an interesting podcast centered around news in astronomy and theoretical physics, intermixed with some unique music, check out Red Giant Radio at http://www.slanderbox.com/
How much more mac does there need to be in the world?
Podcasting requires neither Mac, iTunes nor iPod.
Any MP3 player will do, and it's in the RSS that the magic lies.
There are key differences between podcasting and archival:
(1) A podcast is not necessarily kept available long term.
(2) A podcast is meant to "magically" appear on your portable MP3 player as part of your routine syncing/charging activity.
I don't like the name either -- it wrongly implies reliance on an iPod, and gives Apple free marketing -- but I think we're pretty much stuck with it now.
The CBC radio content is great (and no commercials) so getting this content in podcasts would be fantastic.
A few months ago I was looking for an episode of the program 'ideas' that I had missed. I e-mailed the CBC asking whether they might make this stuff available as a podcast. Here is there response, but please don't hold the CBC to anything in this e-mail. Don't make them regret being so detailed and honest in their response...
"Thank you for taking the time to write to us.
There are a series of legal, financial and resource issues which have forced CBC Radio to change its policy about offering audio files on-line, after a program has aired. These issues have to do with copyright, contractual agreements, bandwidth and staff resources. For example, the musicians association would like to be compensated if we play their music on our website - understandable, but expensive. And so at this time CBC Radio has decided that resources need to go into programming rather than into websites.
We are also frustrated by this decision. We'd like to have as many people as possible listen to our programs.
We have begun to post programs which are clear of music rights/copyright issues. However, there are few IDEAS programs that fall into this category. We use short pieces of music in most of our documentaries, most of which is mixed under narration. We have been told by our business affairs department that any piece of music, of any length, that is posted on-line, needs to have a music license agreement with the music publisher. To acquire music licenses to post these programs would fall well outside of what our show budget can afford. Other programs like Quarks & Quarks can post their programs because any recorded music is cut out of the show. This is easily done for talk/interview format programs.
One of the reasons other broadcasters like the BBC and NPR post their audio on-line is that public that they have different agreements with the different stake holders (ie, Unions).
Our legal and business affairs staff are doing what they can to resolve these issues, and we hope that we will be able to continue the on-line service in the future.
We do offer audio copies and transcripts for sale, but I hasten to add that this is a service, not a profitable business. The fee covers the costs of employing the small staff that makes the copies and fills the orders. Any extra money goes directly back into radio programming. I have been told that some of our programs will be available for download, for a fee, by puretracks.com in the future.
So, again our apologies. We hope to be able to offer more of our programs for on-line listening in the near future."