Online Radio is the fastest-growing broadcast medium with over a hundred thousand radio stations now audible around the world online, via smart speakers and mobile phones.
This book explains the development and technology of radio in layman’s terms. It also discusses how analogue audio can be sliced to make digital signals which are easier to transmit. The requirements of online radio are then described, with a look at the essential studio equipment and at basic business plans for operating an online radio station. Funding online radio is discussed as are various new forms of revenue that are already revolutionising the medium.
Online Radio explores how radio broadcasting developed and how digital has made transmission via the internet a viable way for new radio stations to access audiences. It identifies some of the pioneers who made online radio possible, despite the strenuous efforts to suppress new stations.
Of interest to anyone in the media, Online Radio describes the development of the world's most popular medium and predicts that the future of broadcasting now certainly includes ONLINE RADIO.
Contents of the
Online Radio Book
1 WHAT IS ONLINE RADIO?
waves, control, Online & Digital
2 A HISTORY OF RADIO
From crystal sets to DAB & beyond
3 TECHNICAL
Spectrum, modulation, digitisation
4 LEGAL & LICENSING
5 STUDIO EQUIPMENT
6 FORMATS
7 FINANCE
8 OPERATIONS
9 TRANSMISSION (Networks)
& DISTRIBUTION (Aggregators)
10 ONLINE RADIO RECEIVERS
11 LUMINARIES & LEADERS
12 SUPPLIERS
13 GLOSSARY
14 THE FUTURE OF ONLINE RADIO
15 INDEX
When was the first online radio broadcast?
1993, made by "Internet Talk Radio"
What is 'Streaming Radio"?
it's another name for online radio / web radio
What enables a stream for transmission?
A codec, or encoder
How many online stations globally?
at least 104,000 in 2020, now over 130,000?
What's the potential audience online ?
around 7 billion (the total of smartphones)
