South Africa radio stations online
One of the things that I have found quite interesting is the migration of a number of the South African radio stations online.
Paula was recently interviewed on Jewish community radio station Chai FM and I was impressed by the quality of the online offering. It was easy to log-on to their website and listen to the interview and also to aggregate the link to friends and family.
Another example that I have seen working really well is the business offering on Classic FM where users can download segmented portions of the show via podcast.
The internet is certainly opening up the local radio industry to a far wider and more varied audience.
What will be interesting to see is the development of internet radio in South Africa. Personally I believe that it is going to open up a lot of doors for online publishers.
I was chatting to a colleague recently about online sports radio. I thought that this would be something which would be an industry leader considering how sports mad locals are. He’s kicked around a couple of different offerings with smaller community radios but its never really taken off in the online space.
Any thoughts about the development of online radio or internet radio in Southa Africa?
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Hi Rivalblogger,
Nice comments on the topic of Internet Radio.
Just want to let you know that we are also part of the ‘development of internet radio’. We are trying hard and I think it can work quite well.
The main problem that we experience is the majority of people in SA do not use broadband. That exclude a big part of the population listening to an online radio. We are a Golden Oldies Online radio and for good quality you cannot stream lower than 128kbps. (If you do not stream a lot of music then you can get away with a much lower kbps).
Our Online Radio is for Afrikaans/English listeners from all over the world. We want to bring South Africans together again. We want the listeners to actively take part by sending dedications, messages. etc. (like the radio stations of the past). The problem with today’s Radio Stations is that you have 2 or more DJ’s on duty, making silly jokes and basically speaking to one another. The listeners are feeling excluded as they become ‘passive listeners’ – they do not feel part of the radio activities anymore. We are trying to correct this – but only time will tell whether we will be successful or not.
We are ex South Africans living near Perth in Western Australia. Please have a look at what we are planning:
http://impalaradio.org
You can always participate as a guest presenter!
I see you are English speaking. If you’re not at ease with a lot of Afrikaans, then you will probably like our second project which is just English:
http://gv-school.com/radio
Maybe you would like to participate on this radio. Become a DJ?
Feel free to contact me with any suggestions or other comments.
Greetings.
Cris
Hi Cris
Thanks we’ll check it out. Much appreciated for the links – will definately give some feedback
We possess a way far better, interactive and (also) very easy to make use of a single. We’re just stuck for your lack of funding to the same. ;-(