BBC plans personalized radio service
Posted by Maddie Hanna on July 5, 2006 at 11:58 AM
The BBC plans to offer a “personalized” radio service that will use peer-to-peer internet technology to provide “thousands, ultimately millions, of individual radio services created by audiences themselves,” BBC Director-General Mark Thompson said at this week’s Radio Festival in Cambridge.
Thompson believes MyBBCRadio will be “as relevant to individual users as the playlists they assemble for their iPods,” the Guardian reported Tuesday. The personalized radio will be a part of the BBC’s iPlayer, a free service that will also offer seven days of BBC TV on demand.
With the desired expansion comes a wave of criticism from competitors. UK media groups have slammed the BBC in recent months for its ambitious online plans and denounced the corporation’s “digital empire-building.”
Source: BBC, the Guardian
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This is absolute rubbish.
The top news sources for Yahoo News today are AP, Reuters, AFP, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and the Christian Science Monitor.
Google News' top stories right now are from the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, Reuters, FOX News, the International Herald Tribune and the San Jose Mercury News.
Traditional media - every one of them.
The point is not so much where Yahoo is sourcing its news, but more that web users will compile and filter their own news package from a variety of sources.
Increasingly, this includes sources outside the mainstream media including small, independent news sites and blogs.