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MediaScan

This is an excerpt from MediaScan, a program of Radio Sweden.

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::           MediaScan             ::
::      SWEDEN CALLING DXERS       ::
::       from Radio Sweden         :: 
::   Number 2214--Dec. 20, 1994    :: 
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Satellite, shortwave and other electronic media news from Radio Sweden.

This week's bulletin was written by George Wood.

Packet Radio BID SCDX2214

All times UTC unless otherwise noted.


RADIO IN CYBERSPACE:

WILLIAM GIBSON--In today's program we're once again exploring radio in Cyberspace, or more specifically, on the Internet.

Author William Gibson is best known for his breakthrough science fiction novel from 1984, "Neuromancer", where he invented the whole concept of Cyberspace, the place where telephone calls and computer communications take place. He was here in Stockholm recently, in connection with the publication of the Swedish edition of his latest novel, "Virtual Light". Two extracts from his interview with Per Gustavsson of Swedish Radio's Science Department were included in the program.

Gibson says once an interview like this would have stayed within Sweden. Now, he expects to see bits of it appearing on the Internet, illustrating how information now spreads itself around the world.

We've just made his statement come true. Not only are his words winging there way around the world via shortwave and satellite, they are also now available on the Internet, since you are reading this. And since MediaScan is available as a sound file on the Net, the sound of Gibson's voice is also on the Net as well.

RADIO SWEDEN--You can find us wherever Internet Multicasting can be found, but the primary upload site is ftp.funet.fi, where we can be found in the section pub, sounds, RadioSweden, Mediascan.

This is the first radio program from Sweden on the Internet, but now Swedish Radio is busily setting up its own Internet World Wide Web server. In today's program we also interviewed Lars Beijar, who is charge of the project. The Swedish Radio WWW-server is to be in operation by March 1. At that time, 5 minute newscasts from the News Department and other departments here in Stockholm, along with 1 local radio station, Radio Kronoberg in Vaexsjoe, should be available for public access over the Net. Within a month of the start, Lars Beijar hopes the have the other 23 local radio stations included.

Newscasts from Radio Sweden and the Immigrant Languages Department will also be available.

WRN--You should be able to access Radio Sweden online in another way soon. The World Radio Network, which relays us and 21 other international broadcasters on satellite to Europe and North America, is working with Internet Multicasting in Washington DC, the same service that is carrying "MediaScan", to offer the entire WRN output on the Internet.

LIVE RADIO--All of this Internet activity concerns sound files. There is some live radio and video on the Net, via a service called the MBONE. But now the first 24 hour live radio station has appeared on the MBONE. This is a student station at the University of North Caroline in Chapel Hill, WXYC, who are taking their current on the air FM signal and putting it on the Net.

For more information about what they are up to, and the equipment needed to tune in, you can check out their World Wide Web page, which is:

http://sunsite.unc.edu/wxyc

And Radio Sweden may be joining WXYC live on the Internet. Lars Beijar also has plans for live radio from Sweden via the MBONE. After the WWW-server is running, the next project is live radio from Sweden. For copyright purposes, Radio Sweden will probably be the first programming offered.


Sweden Calling DXers/MediaScan is the world's oldest radio program about international broadcasting. Radio Sweden has presented this round-up of radio news, features, and interviews on Tuesdays since 1948. It's currently broadcast on the first and third Tuesdays of the month.