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[Anna]

Also registered, eagerly awaiting first email!
Article today in The Telegraph by Gillian Reynolds saying she thinks the BBC are edging towards subscription radio and listing the programmes she'd pay to hear - none of them on Radion 3 But she didn't elaborate about how she thought subscription would work (and for the life of me I don't see how it can be implemented except on the Net) and also, another article which I cannot find about the BBC linking up with Spotify?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

registered but iam now a firm believer in scrapping Aunt altogether .... and reinventing public service media in the uk ...

[french frank]

There is a possibility of a Radio 4 Feedback prog in the offing.

[subcontrabass]

Also registered, eagerly awaiting first email!
Article today in The Telegraph by Gillian Reynolds saying she thinks the BBC are edging towards subscription radio and listing the programmes she'd pay to hear - none of them on Radion 3 But she didn't elaborate about how she thought subscription would work (and for the life of me I don't see how it can be implemented except on the Net) and also, another article which I cannot find about the BBC linking up with Spotify?

There is this about Spotify: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24460275

[teamsaint]

Also registered, eagerly awaiting first email!
Article today in The Telegraph by Gillian Reynolds saying she thinks the BBC are edging towards subscription radio and listing the programmes she'd pay to hear - none of them on Radion 3 But she didn't elaborate about how she thought subscription would work (and for the life of me I don't see how it can be implemented except on the Net) and also, another article which I cannot find about the BBC linking up with Spotify?

Well I don't either, but digital signals are (I suspect) much easier to control at either end than analogue.
It's certainly one reason (in my opinion) that we should be very sceptical around motives both for digital platforms, and the DRM issues that the BBC is so concerned to control.

[french frank]

I'm surprised Gillian Reynolds thought that. I think a larger percentage of the population listen to BBC radio than watch BBC television (must check that). And Radio 4 is thought of as being at the heart of the BBC's public service output (Radio 3 used to be too). Subscription radio would lose a lot of listeners when so much is free on the internet. And the licence fee is supposed to pay for radio as well as television.

[Frances_iom]

Well I don't either, but digital signals are (I suspect) much easier to control at either end than analogue.
It's certainly one reason (in my opinion) that we should be very sceptical around motives both for digital platforms, and the DRM issues that the BBC is so concerned to control.

I pointed this out years ago as one key reason to halt the turn off of FM - R1 iplayer is I guess to hit the teenage market and could easily be construed as a straight competitor with existing digital download channels aimed at the same market

[teamsaint]

I pointed this out years ago as one key reason to halt the turn off of FM - R1 iplayer is I guess to hit the teenage market and could easily be construed as a straight competitor with existing digital download channels aimed at the same market

Would you be able to explain (to non technical types) the dangers in digital radio , EG the technical feasibility of "subscription only" models, please?

[Frances_iom]

Would you be able to explain (to non technical types) the dangers in digital radio , EG the technical feasibility of "subscription only" models, please?

sky tv - encrypt channel + require a subscription sim card - ok not with existing DAB but that's days are surely numbered - very easy with an internet based service - a paid for app - remember that it is proposed to add DRM into the next standard for HTML - as Stallman pointed out decades ago now you will have to pay to read a book + listen to music and, kindle-like, your subscription (+ thus your library) can be cancelled at any time.

[french frank]

There is this about Spotify: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24460275

Hmm, presumably won't include full classical works for the same reason there was a fuss over the Beethoven symphony downloads, and why there are no full works on podcasts ...?

Only thing with Radio 3 is we'll keep getting the same pieces of music.

[teamsaint]

Hmm, presumably won't include full classical works for the same reason there was a fuss over the Beethoven symphony downloads, and why there are no full works on podcasts ...?

Only thing with Radio 3 is we'll keep getting the same pieces of music.

Hard to know where to start with what might politely be called "reservations" about "playlister".

[amateur51]

Another excellent edition of BBC R4's The Media Show today in which Steve Hewlett interviews Liz Howells re Tony Hall's proposals for the future re super-serving rich folks in the South East. Did you know there are currently 60 pan-BBC Boards? Tony & Jimmy want to cut that number by 50%!

And Angela Phillips on what's left of Leveson after the Privy Council has chucked out the Newspaper editors/owners' proposals.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03c48yw

[Russ]

Will the BBC's 'wherenext' Newsletter provide any mechanism for its recipients to respond?

Russ

[french frank]

Will the BBC's 'wherenext' Newsletter provide any mechanism for its recipients to respond?

Russ

Of course. They'll want feedback from us, won't they?

[Russ]

Anyone received a Newsletter yet?