{"id":570950,"date":"2010-05-19T13:45:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T17:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-05-19:article\/419-bbc-tries-dollar-a-week-radio-mobile-app-in-u.s"},"modified":"2010-05-19T13:45:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T17:45:59","slug":"bbc-tries-dollar-a-week-radio-mobile-app-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570950","title":{"rendered":"BBC Tries ‘Dollar-A-Week’ Radio Mobile App In U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The public-service BBC’s app plans may be on hold in its native UK<\/a> until its regulating body checks for anti-competitive effects – but, outside of Blighty, the profit-seeking BBC Worldwide wing is pressing ahead with its latest mobile download.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s boldest step yet in to chargeable content, BBC Listener<\/a> is a radio app offering over 20 documentary, magazine and discussion shows on-demand, plus access to archive programmes from the last decade.<\/p>\n

Here’s the bold bit – after the $2.99 download fee, BBC Listener<\/a> uses iPhone OS 3.0’s in-app subscription feature, requiring uses pay $12.99 per quarter for continued access.\n<\/p>\n

There’s potentially a decent U.S. market of public radio afficionados keen for serious news and analysis, and forms part of BBC Worldwide’s big U.S. push. Most of the shows are from BBC Radio 4 – the intellectual station that some Americans I know cite as the world’s only credible objective news source of any scale.<\/p>\n

But BBC Listener may not be all that good value – many of the shows contained within are available as free downloadable podcasts, as well as for web playback, no matter where in the world listeners are. For example, here’s<\/a> BBC World New America reporter Matt Frei’s Americana<\/a> show, all 51 episodes of it.<\/p>\n

Maybe some users will be happy to pay to have all this wrapped inside a single app, but there’s another stumbling block – NPR in the States does at least as good a job at radio news and documentary, and all its apps, like its podcasts, are free.\n<\/p>\n

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