Listen Again or Audio On Demand


Here are the details of the Listen Again or Audio On Demand (AOD) feature which we can now reveal will go live on Monday 5th April 2004.

First some background - the AOD service currently featured on the other BBC Networks (e.g. Radio 4) makes very heavy demands on our colleagues in BBC Radio Interactive and they warned that they could not sustain a full BBC 7 schedule as well. We felt it was important to offer you the full range of BBC 7 programmes, so they developed a simplified form of AOD, which was easier to maintain. I'm delighted with what they have come up with, and I hope you will agree when you see it.

We decided to base the process on the What's On information which normally looks at future programmes. For AOD we captu! re! the content of those pages after transmission and use them as a platform for launching the AOD service.

The rules by which we are now able to provide AOD for all our programmes require that they can only be heard after conventional transmission. For complicated technical reasons I am afraid you will not be able to hear "today's" programmes on AOD until "tomorrow" and then you will have a further five days to hear them, before they get replaced with new recordings.

We will be delighted to receive your comments (good and bad) from 5th April onwards - we will give a specific email address or I guess a dedicated thread on the Message Board could be used as well. I'm sure you'll appreciate that we may not be able to enter into correspondence on particular aspects of the system - the BBC 7 team is small in number and very busy getting all those future programmes ready for you to enjoy! However we will note all your comments and consider them in the design of! f! uture AOD improvements. Please bear with us if we have a few glitches in the first days of the service - I'm sure you will agree it was worth waiting for!

Posted: Tue - March 30, 2004 at 02:02 PM          







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