Radio to Takeaway

New forms of radio broadcasting

To be able to, just once, produce your own contribution for a well known radio station – no problem with Deutschlandradio Kultur! In the station’s »Blogspiel«, radio listeners have the opportunity to upload their audio comments and radio contributions and put them up for discussion.

The radio has, as the oldest electronic medium, remained young until today because radio broadcasters have always understood how to quickly adapt to new technical developments and communication paths. Non-linear radio is, therefore, quite matter of course today: public broadcasters such as WDR, DLF or Deutsche Welle not only have individual contributions available in online media portals but also entire programmes.
The »WDR-Mediathek regional« online portal impressed the jury of the 2008 Grimme Online Awards so much that it won the prize for the best concept in the information category. One of the most popular programmes is the audio series »ARD Radio-Tatort« which is also available as Podcast. The special thing about this technology: Podcasts can be subscribed to, whereby radio listeners are not only able to listen to their favourite programmes when they want but they will also never miss a new episode as the mp3 files are automatically downloaded onto the computer.

Podcasting also enables totally new and independent forms of radio, even making radio an interactive medium. This development has only just started as new trends continue to occupy the providers – an increasing number of radio broadcasters are, meanwhile, also »twittering«, hereby bringing news to internet users.

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