Radioinfo: “Are we moving to an all-IP media future?”
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, William Lee, who shares the following article from Radioinfo.com.au:
Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland
We believe that the days when all media will be distributed over the internet are not too far away."
Those are the words of the BBC's Chief Technology and Product Officer, the very nice Matthew Postgate, who made a long speech which the BBC has reproduced on its press site. Digital TV Europe excitedly reported it as the BBC predicting an all-IP future.
I tweeted this last week, and it was retweeted heavily, with a lot of radio people posting "I told you so!" and "I've been saying this for ages!"; and a few online radio companies jumped to self-promote themselves as part of the all-IP future.
Calm down, everyone.
First, as a former senior manager at the BBC, I'd start with the seemingly trite statement that whenever you hear "we" coming from a BBC manager in a speech, what they really mean is, firstly, "my department", and secondly, in most cases, they also mean "television". Indeed, there is no mention of radio in the section of Matthew's speech which talks about an all-IP future.
Radio and television are very, very different.["]