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BBC NI - Blast NI - Media Job Profiles - Radio Presenter and Producer
This is what I thought a producer did - after all, I have seen a few episodes of Frasier!
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My days doing production work for John Daly are spent booking guests, coming up with feature ideas, speaking to contributors, sorting out music for the show, putting together running orders and making sure that everything is in place for a good show each week. On the day of the show, I'm responsible for getting each guest on the air when they're supposed to be there, making sure that everything runs smoothly, and keeping an eye on timings to make sure we can fit everything in....Being a freelancer, there's very little job security
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Analysis | The threat of thrift | podcast March 5, 2009
I am listening to this fascinating radio show.
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But for younger generations who have never known such economic threats, the idea of thrift is more threatening.
Can it ever become fashionable?
Newswriting for Radio: Three Styles: The Vivid Style
This contrast in styles is interesting. It will take practice to write consistently in one style or another - and more effort to see what is most useful to an audience.
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The vivid reader is more conversational in sentence structure, beginning with a quotation that is back-referenced and ending with a conditional ("if...then") clause. The standard reader is prosaic, with simple sentence followed by simple sentence.
Newswriting for Radio website
This is an interesting website from a US perspective, with plenty of examples. It shows how to prepare a news bulletin, from basic editorial decisions, to choosing words and formatting for an actual script.
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the website is not meant to replace a broadcast newswriting textbook ... In The Basics, you learn fundamental lessons and characteristics of broadcast newswriting. Three different newscast formats are examined in The Styles. You'll examine some of the questions surrounding what deserves coverage in the section on News Judgment. Finally, The Newsroom teaches you about creating an organized environment that allows you to be better prepared for stories.
BBC - Writersroom - ScriptSmart
sounds interesting - I wonder if it works in OpenOffice.org or NeoOffice
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Script Smart is a set of Microsoft Word templates to help writers format their scripts.
BBC - Radio Labs - Under the iPlayer hood for radio
great workaround in the comments - thanks
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Please can you put a button on all of the iPlayer Radio pages to open in Standalone RealPlayer?
I know there is a workaround by going to the non-graphical page,
Recording streaming audio with MPlayer | GRIMTHING.COM
This looks like an extremely useful recipe for internet radio stations that don't have a 'listen again' feature; or for automatically loading your personal music player with radio shows.
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This will create a wav file in the /tmp directory (make sure it’s writable). Whenever you tell MPlayer to quit recording (ctrl-c or killall -9 mplayer), oggenc converts the wav file, deposits an ogg file in your home directory named FlockofSeagulls_May20.ogg and, then the rm command removes mystream.wav to save disk space. ...The stream I want to record is already in the format I want
This simplifies things a bit. If the stream you want to record is already in the format you want to use, you can use the -dumpstream flag instead.
Multiformat stream recorders: How to download/save/capture/record streaming Windows Media, Real Media, Real Video, Real Audio, Quick Time Videos (.ASF, .WMV, .WMA, .ASX, .WMX, .WVX, .WAX, .RA, .RM, .RAM, .SMIL, .RMVB, .MP3) [RTSP, HTTP or MMS protocols]
sounds useful
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To record streaming media get the URL of a stream and use command line strings like in the following examples:
mplayer.exe -dumpstream rtsp://somehost.com/somedirectory/somefile.rm
[MPlayer-users] .rm to wav/mp3 transcoding
no answer to this one either, but they got it working with at least one file
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for example: ../mplayer/main/mplayer -ao pcm -vo null -vc null tmo.rm gives me an audiodump.wav file
The VideoLAN Forums • View topic - Difficulty recording a BBC RTSP Realaudio Stream
Gave up and plugged an cassette recorder into the laptop!
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I don't control subject, but I would like to understand why they succeed in listening to BBC
and why cannot transcode it via vlc for the local radio.
Universal Software Radio Peripheral - Ettus Research LLC
Home software-defined radio (SDR) kit
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The USRP is US$700, and includes an enclosure, power supply, cables, and hardware.
BBC - Radio 4 - PM reporters - Eddie Mair
The new voice of British evenings writes his autobiography in the third persone. Euch.
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Mair was fired from BH for stealing from the office, and became the sole presenter of PM in 2003, having rowed with every single one of his co-presenters.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Stop the 'i' madness - Eddie Mair - Oct 16, 2007
Has Eddie lost his marbles? Is he about to resign? Has April 1 come early? Or has going on and on about his blog annoyed so many people that he hopes that if he criticises it himself, we won't notice?
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I may be a lone voice in this but isn't it time to stop the madness? To say that the interactive frenzy is bad for broadcasting. It numbs the skills of the broadcasters, it makes dreadful radio and it gives listeners ideas above their station.
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Kwik-Fit sued over staff radios
Bizarre lawsuit?
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He said that if that was established after evidence it was "at least possible" that liability for copyright infringement would be brought home against Kwik-Fit.
Radio Recorder - Record Internet Radio stations under MacOSX as MP3 files
A piece of open source for Mac
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RadioRecorder lets you take a selection of your favourite internet radio stations along with you.
Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
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It's difficult to find music that's actually worth listening to. Although many bands offer music on their websites, there's no real way to tell if it's any good without actually downloading it. The labels do serve the (somewhat) legitimate purpose of picking out the good from the bad. But we can do that ourselves with legal downloads by using collaborative filtering, for example by downloading our music with iRATE radio, which you'll find at http://irate.sourceforge.net/:
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looking forward to listening to this Bristol station
48 kbps so it should not sound too bad on dial-up.
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