Radio, TV, Digital radio & TV, music & video
Public broadcast Radio
- Radio links including 'streaming' radio sites: MIT list of > 7,500 radio links; Broadcast.com's list of many radio links; NetRadio Network's links;
- ABC News and Entertainment
- BBC Web resources UK and 'BBC Alert' for program notifications, by topic. BBC Internet support resources.
- BBC 'World Service', with Newshour, 28.8 Kb audio. Broadcast frequencies.
- CBC radio News at Imperial College.
- CNET radio.
- Internet Radio Guide
- Spike radio, TV and video
- Virgin Radio.
Amateur radio
- Harry Bloomfield's web site, with information and advice for beginners on UK Amateur Radio.
- The Radio Society of Great Britain
Public broadcast TV
Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) radio & TV satellite broadcasts
I have prepared a guide on how I record DAB radio broadcasts and save them onto audio-CDs, retaining the full digital quality of the original
- The Digital Television Group, DTG UK resource for digital television professionals. It has a guide to the complexities of digital TV broadcasting and receivers in the UK.
- Modular Technology. DAB Digital Radio PCI card, with a review.
- 'Passion for the Planet' DAB radio stations in the UK
- World DAB forum with many links to DAB radio and other broadcasts
- 'What Satellite TV online' magazine. Printed copies are available from newsagents. It provides an overview of how to get started, what is new on the 'satellite' scene with advertisements from local and mail order suppliers. Note that occasional posts to news:rec.video.satellite.europeand news:alt.satellite.tv.europe have criticised some of the technical articles. The annual 'Tests' special articles usually have clear DIY instructions.
- 'Tele-Satellite International'. Order printed copies online. This is directed towards the trade and technical readers.
- SATCO DX lists radio & TV channels on geostationary satellites.
- The Lyngemart 'satellite chart' provides technical data for all satellite TV & radio channels in the world in the Ku, C and S bands, including links to home pages, teletext services, footprints maps, address info and logoshots.
- Spreadsheets to help set up satellite dish mounts are also available from David A White's site.
- Digital TV: UK coverage, BBC digital programs, 'ON Digital', 'BSkyB' and 'Sky digital'. With links to news, sport and movies.
- How to add Sky extra ITV1 regional channels to Sky Digibox settings and other questions about Sky digital TV.
Music including Internet Radio and streaming audio
Classical music and events
- Andante Corp. Classical music portal, which aims to document and preserve the world's recorded classical musical heritage and to become the definitive online resource for information about classical music and opera.
- British Music Information Centre BMIC: The resource centre for British contemporary classical music.
- English National Opera ENO.
- Impulse This site provides personalised pages on performers and composers together with entries for record labels and affiliated organisations. It also holds classical music tracks with copyright protection in the digital domain.
- 'Musi-Cal' calendar of musical events.
- Opera companies with web sites, worldwide.
- Royal Festival Hall, & Hayward Gallery, London
- Search 'cdnow' for classical tracks by artist, title etc.
- Ultimate Band List UBL download MP3 music
- WCPE.org classical music site, North Carolina. Listen to it online.
- Westminster Abbey London, services, concerts etc.
- Yahoo! Opera resources: schedules, performances and content.
Internet Radio and Streaming Audio Search Engines
- Classical Connect search for and stream classical music: "a virtual concert hall and the biggest searchable collection of classical music on the Internet."
- Live365.com large collection of network sites
- SHOUTcast Search for continual streaming music by genre
- RadioJump lists the biggest and the best net radio stations.
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VirtualTuner.com Search for net radio stations by country, language or genre.
Internet Radio Stations - Launch at Yahoo!, has a broad mix of radio stations.
- ChoiceRadio.com A broad range offered, from 'top 40' to 'Electronica'.
- Radiofeeds.co.uk list of UK radio stations broadcasting on internet
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RadioIO lists 'big names' on 'big play lists'.
Streaming Audio - DigitallyImportant European techno, trance and hard house music.
- Epitonic stream or download albums from some of the world's best new bands.
- Vitaminic includes unsigned bands.
- PeopleSound for obscure tunes.
Popular music, download tracks and events
- Search 'cdnow' for popular tracks by artist, title etc.
- 'Crunch'. MP3 music site UK.
- Search and download MP3 music at Goodnoise and Lycos.
- The 'Hamsters', UK, with RealAudio v 3 music clips
- IUMA Internet Underground Music Archive.
- 'MegaT'
- mtv Networks 'OnLINE'
- 'Parlophone' EMI's information on groups: Blur, Radiohead, Pet Shop Boys, Queen, Finn etc.
- 'RealAudio archive'. Archive of music to play with 'RealAudio' '*.ra' music files.
- Rolling Stones music site.
Audio-CD ripping services
There are commercial services to 'rip' audio from commercial CDs to MP3 and other formats on DVDs, so that they can be transferred to computers and portable audio devices. Six, in the USA, are listed at Designtechnica. Whole collections can be transferred for about US$1/CD.
Music software
- MPEG3 software: MusicMatch and RioPort.
- 'Musicware'. Music education software. For example, learn to play the piano.
- 'Napster' music file sharing resources.
- Notehead's 'Igor Engraver' music notation software US$195 for students.
- 'RadiSpy.com' web site with streaming audio.
- 'Rosegarden suite' A free musical notation editing and sequencing system for a variety of machines running Unix and X, in particular SGI. workstations and PCs running Linux.
- 'Shoutcast' web site with streaming audio. It also has 'free' audio server software. It enables Windows or UNIX computers, with Nullsoft's'Winamp' audio player and an Internet connection, to broadcast streaming audio. It includes links to audio servers.
- Sibelius music notation software: 'Sibelius' v 2 @ £595, 'Sibelius Teaching Tools' @ £57.57, 'PhotoScore Professional' program for scanning printed music @ £199 and 'PhotoScore MIDI' program for documenting output from MIDI sequencers such as 'Logic', 'Cubase' and 'Cakewalk'. @ £149. SibeliusMusic, publish, download and pay for printed music on-line.
Video
- Disney, streaming audio and video.
- NBC VideoSeeker
- News provided in video: 'Bloomberg', CBS. CNBC Dow Jones Business Video, CNN Videoselect,
- Hollywood and Vine's windows media site.
- 'Web Events' listed by Microsoft.
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