Am I alone in thinking that the likes of BBC Radio, which seems to archive it’s programs a mere week after OTA broadcast, yet keep the meta-data alerting the world to the existence of the program seems to be retained for much longer, is counterproductive and a poor use of public monies. I’d suggest that a better outcome would be to make the archives freely available hereafter via the web, which would also hasten the development of a taxonomy for the web, as it seems we seem to be developing more content without yet making large strides in the ways we organise and subsequently consume that information.

The impact of the change in listening habits, particularly the impact of filesharing which I expect has reduced the amount of money flowing into the large institutions that were formerly important and dominant features of the music industry and also I suspect cause a decline in the numbers of people tuning into commerical-OTA-radio, which will subsequently impact the rates that radio broadcasters will be able to charge , As a result of this, I think that commercial OTA radio may be challenged in the medium term, which will hopefully lead to a rennaissance in Public Radio format, because only they will be able to undertake the sort of special interest program that the freedom from commercial objectives allows them to make. (though perhaps this to some degree already occurs, evident in the low volume of special interest programming and the proliferation of broad/generic formats in the commerical radio sector).

Responses on any of the above welcome/appreciated.

Cheers.