Augmenting the Radio Experience by Enhancing Interactions between Radio Editors and Listeners

Stay Tuned! An Investigation of Content Substitution, the Listener as Curator and Other Innovations in Broadcast Radio

“…Listeners see broadcast radio as a predominantly passive medium (see Section 4.3.2) and might not engage that frequently in radio interaction (see Section 5.2 and also the limited interest in LCRS song voting, let alone in attaching speech fragments to votes). A similar fnding was put forward by Claes et al [11]. As such, our work informs radio makers about how best to align their radio shows with the expectations of listeners and about which radio innovation avenues are likely to yield maximal listener acceptance.…”

“…This is evidenced by statements like "the power of radio is precisely that you can listen to radio shows that have been carefully curated by radio professionals" [survey], "when I turn on the radio, I'm making a deliberate decision to listen to the radio and not to a music streaming service" [P03], and "replacement content might clash with the identity of the radio station" [P02]. Similar observations have been put forward in prior art (e.g., [11]). This consumer group of "radio loyalists" not necessarily wants broadcast radio to innovate itself, given that they value the passive yet carefully curated listening experiences that radio has been delivering ever since the conception of the medium.…”

“…Bailer et al have described high-level challenges but also opportunities for the cost-efective authoring of interactive radio content (e.g., summarization techniques) [2]. Claes et al have put forward fve attention points concerning the design of interactive radio shows: facilitating listener feedback, content co-creation opportunities, personalized services for listeners, ondemand content consumption options, and nurturing community feeling [11]. Finally, interactive narration techniques are increasingly gaining traction in the context of over-the-top (OTT) video streaming (e.g., [36,62]) and audio dramas (e.g., [14]).…”

“…Score (mean ± stdev) nurturing community feeling (cf. [11]), it is doubtful whether this sufces for the format to be perceived by listeners as a fully fedged form of community radio (cf. [37,45]).…”

Multimedia Analytics Challenges and Opportunities for Creating Interactive Radio Content

“…Listener co-creation processes grounded on user-generated content (UGC) are one particularly cost-effective way to enrich radio shows and to stimulate interaction. An example case for using UGC in event-related radio content is described in [14]. As UGC-driven co-creation commonly leads to extensive pools of content, the production team needs algorithmic support to (semi-)automatically select contributions that are of good quality in both technical and content aspects.…”