Wednesday, November 14, 2007

AIR Goes Online

Public radio broadcaster All India Radio has gone online with a multilingual website - www.newsonair.com, reports the Statesman.

Go figure: there’s also a slightly different version of the same site at
www.newsonair.nic.in. The site was launched on 7th October, as per this rather amusing note, the website “also show cases the latest technique of Webcasting for the Audio of radio news bulletins broadcast from NSD Headquarters at Delhi and various Regional News Unit across the country.”

The site has MP3s of news bulletins in Hindi, English and Urdu, some daily broadcasts, and some weekly specials. All in all, the interface of both sites is awful, with very poor usability. It needs a lot of work. A majority of the content is written content, and there is very little audio content. They claim to have put up
audio archives, but I found nothing from 1-11-2005 to 2-2-2006. I don’t really know what AIR is trying to do with the site...not sure if they do, either.

Source: ContentSutra

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