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Meanwhile, the Oklahoma senate voted 39 to 0 to ask broadcasters and sponsors of Liddy's show and "other broadcast talk shows that encourage hate and violence" to pull out their funding. Even before that, station KCKC-AM in San Bernardino, California, announced that it was canceling Liddy's show. (How many still carry it? At last count...
...often under surveillance. In Slovakia a proposed law would provide one- to five-year jail sentences for journalists who "demean" the country from abroad. In Poland, the Czech republic and Hungary the situation is better, but everywhere governments exert pressure by controlling paper supplies, distribution facilities and especially broadcast licenses...
Glaser's new system, called RealAudio, solves that problem. Taking advantage of the latest advances in digital compression, it delivers AM radio-quality sound in so-called real time. Click on an icon representing the show you want to hear, and you will hear it immediately, broadcast through your computer's speaker system. Or you can select a sound segment or a series of segments and listen to them in the order you choose. Onscreen buttons let you pause, rewind and fast-forward through a program...
Glaser's system is not just for geeks; some big-name radio broadcasters have licensed RealAudio technology. National Public Radio, for instance, is using RealAudio to distribute the newsmagazines All Things Considered and Morning Edition on the Internet. Similarly, abc Radio has put its hourly news broadcasts online so a listener can hear, say, the 11 a.m. daily broadcast at any time. HotWired, the online edition of Wired magazine, plans to use the technology to broadcast a quiz show and is also developing an online talk show with comedian-magician-computerphile Penn Jillette...
...their TV show; downloading the entire half-hour video, even with a high-speed modem, takes nearly 24 hours. That's why they break their program into smaller segments that can be retrieved one at a time. For instance, Let's Go Giggin, a five-minute comedy bit broadcast last week that features a nose-ringed clown hunting frogs with a stick, takes half an hour to come to life on a computer screen. Still a long wait, but where else can you find entertainment like that...