Presentation made at the annual Central Canada Broadcast Engineers (CCBE) convention in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
It introduces the concepts of hybrid radio and RadioDNS and provides the basic knowledge to start a RadioVIS service
1. Hybrid FM / Internet Radio
François Lefebvre
Communications Research Centre, Canada
Central Canada Broadcast Engineers Conference
September 17 2010, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
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2. 10 Messages
1. Broadcast radio can get ”better”
2. Various enablers
3. Internet can't do it all (yet)
4. Hybrid Radio: a progressive approach
5. RadioDNS makes the connection
6. Hybrid FM / Internet devices
7. Building a RadioVIS service
8. There are challenges
9. CRC can help
10. References
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4. Broadcaster
Offer better service
New business opportunities
Keep the radio media relevant
Consumer
New expectations due to new media landscape
Multimedia
Interactivity
Integration into new devices and platforms
Integration into social applictions
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10. Mobile (3G) Internet streaming does not scale
infastructure can't support
thousands of simultaneous
constant high bitrate streams (yet)
Expensive proposition for consumer
2 hours per day of radio = 1Gb / month
> 30$ / month (in Canada)
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13. Hybrid FM / Internet Broadcaster
Broadcast Network Internet
FM RDS
PI
Slides Interaction
Audio PS
EPG Buy
RT
Targetted Tag
ODA
content Tell me
RT+
... more
TMC
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Radio “Listener”
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20.
Rigister your station at RadioDNS.org
Make sure to broadcast the right PI code
– http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/h_sf08741.html
Setup a RadioVIS server (EBU open source)
Populate RadioVIS server with fresh images
Test with demo receivers / Apps
Roll-out
Monitor “page views”, clickthrough rate, …
Increase advertising revenues !
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22. RadioDNS is
based on the
frequency tuning
paradigm.
Users may want
unified broadcast
/ broadband
“search”
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Device manufacturer / App developper have
ultimate control of end-user experience
Multimedia must be aligned in devices (codecs,
image formats, text formats, …)
New players: aggregators (Internet radio
listings)
FM/RDS and API in mobile devices
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