RADIO Tradeshow
Every year in October, the SIEL-SATIS-Le RADIO
tradeshow takes place in Paris Porte de Versailles. This is the occasion
to meet all the actors of the French Radio market.
Digital Radio is closer than ever to a launch in France and Rachid
Harab form the CSA (Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel) has symbolically
launched the first DMC emitter for France.
This year should see 3 areas launched with DMB (Paris, Nice and
Marseille). A few new comers have been authorised to start broadcasting
their programs: La Radio du Soleil (Chinese community), R2O (ex-Superloustic),
Radio Crooner (High quality classic songs) and LCI Radio (News channel).
RADIO Tradeshow: The conferences in 2005
This richmedia interface shows how a full day of conferences can be rendered in a single page.
The concept is demonstrated here with video synchronised with slides or animations, bio of the speakers, comments that can be translated in different languages and navigation to allow you to jump directly to any part of the conferences.
Have a look to the first series "Dessine moi une radio!" which is complete demonstrating the concept of Radio Broadcasting from AM, FM to Digital Technologies.
Digital Broadcasting has a serious advantage over mobile phones communications as the content can be huge in terms of data and you would not pay an arm and a leg because the videos are downloaded through the air like a radio and would not affect your phone plan.
When you interact with the device, a phone connection is established, transmitting your information at that moment only and represents a tiny bandwidth consumption.
So it becomes possible to watch interactive video content on mobile phones equipped with a digital radio receiver. And that exists in Korea...
Have a look to the different technologies available for Digital Broadcasting by clicking on the "Conferences Radio Numerique du Radio 2005" image. This was done in preparation of the show.
LERadio Project
First defined in 2000, LERadio (Learning & Entertainment Radio) may
be relaunched soon. The concept is to provide an Educative channel in
English for French listeners. Filled with different current and live
content, the idea is to train the ear to the English language, while
enjoying fun and informational subjects. It is all about giving a
practical knowledge to help the listener to speak casual language
outside of their professional remits.
I remember the painful experience of going to a pub in London and
feeling stuck because my vocabulary was extremely limited and I was
struggling with the different accents especially in noisy environments
like a pub. Although I had all the necessary language in my business, I
realised I could not do causal conversations and felt really frustrated
as I had spent 12 years studying English in the French schools and yet
could not really handle "standard" situations such as a problem with a
plane travel, politics, sports and even standard gossiping. As a result
I felt excluded and I thought if I had a way to learn how to handle a
real conversation in English in any life situations that would impact my
business and my personal life as well.
The program contains news, reports, interviews, a little bit of
grammar and interesting expressions explained in a fun and interesting
way. It does compete with the traditional schooling system or even the
adult training websites and companies as we would work with original
content mainly with additional content available on the market such as
story telling.
Stay tuned. This will be developed later on.
