Fox News Radio is now offering a new on-demand service to the nearly 400 affiliates of its 5-Minute news service. This makes the Fox News Radio the first radio network to provide an On Demand service for its affiliates.
Constantly updated 24-hours daily, the service provides radio stations with On Demand newscasts - aptly called "Fox News Radio On Demand" - directly to the affiliate website. Yes, this service is only to websites.
“People today are getting their news and information not just from the radio but are also looking to the Internet for what they need,” said Kevin Magee, EVP of Fox News Radio. (Wait... people are looking to the internet for news and information?! Amazing!)
Now, this news sounds interesting until you realize that it's relegated to online listening only. Since everything online is essentially "On Demand" there's little in terms of breakthrough here. Maybe it's an updated embeddable player that's the big deal? I don't know, but the thought of On Demand and Radio sure makes a lot of sense to me. And that spells an opportunity for Satellite Radio (not to mention headlines)... if they can pull it off.
I personally would love something like "Satellite Radio On Demand" - with the ability to access a limited variety of programming (likely original programming only) that you can listen to whenever you want. It would bring the listening experience to the next level.
I don't know exactly how they'd do it, since the receiver would need to send a signal to access the different programming, but that's up to the engineers to figure out. I just want a true hybrid between choice, and selection... how great would that be?
[via MediaWeek]
It definitely seems like SatRad On-Demand should be possible...You can get cable TV on-demand with a digital converter; I don't see why XM and Sirius couldn't offer something similar. It'd be great for things like O&A, Howard, Artist Confidential episodes, Ron and Fez...Then, in the case of The Virus, if the shows were made available on-demand, then other programs could be added throughout the day.
This could be done if the data being sent were using Cellular for up link and SAT or TERR for normal down link. Since all the up link would have to do is tell the server to open the file. The downside would be starting a new for every user on a SAT feed. I think it is possible.
If Dish or direct tv can do it sat radio can they use the same concept
Satellite radio doesn't have anywhere near the bandwidth needed for an On Demand service where the content is sent when it is requested. They could use Stiletto-like radios and podcast-like subscriptions to save content to the device when it is sent and play it when requested.
I think such a device would want a second tuner for saving this content (which could also be used for recording channels other than the one being listened to), so it can record it while you are listening to something else.