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Beginning Dec. 4, Harvard will air the New York Metropolitan Opera's live radio broadcast, a tradition on the airwaves since...
...decision to air the Met Opera comes just a few months after Boston's premier classical music station, WCRB-FM, 102.5, ended its 60-year broadcast of the program because of increasing financial difficulties and creative differences with...
WHRB is installing an ISDN line to receive the digital transmission directly from the Met, for which the opera house will foot the bill. The station must learn the intricacies of the new satellite system before the first broadcast in two months...
...interface will win over people who have given up mastering their VCRs. The result, if users embrace it, is the telefuturist's grail: TV on demand. "It takes away the meaning of prime time," says Rob Enderle, an analyst at Giga Information Group. "The time a show is broadcast becomes meaningless." ReplayTV allows users to create "channels" based on search criteria, like home-improvement shows or Steve McQueen movies. TiVo lets you search by category and makes recommendations based on how you have rated other programs...
Equally interesting is what the devices do with live programs. You can rewind or pause in the middle of a broadcast while it keeps recording--say the doorbell rings with the count at 3 and 2 and two runners on--resume watching from that point, then skip ahead to catch up to the live broadcast if you want. And that's not all you can skip. Among the players' most anticipated, and controversial, features are buttons that allow you to flash past commercials at super-high speed...