The highly successful CBC Radio 3 service, spotlighting independent Canadian music artists, until now has been restricted to the Sirius Satellite Network and a playlist you could customize on its web site.
Now, Radio 3 has launched a full radio station that you can access — for free! — through any web browser or your favourite music player. All the great music you’ve come to expect from R3, but it’s now a living, breathing radio station including the hosts and editorial features.
CBC Radio 3’s blogger-in-residence, John Paolozzi, calls it “the most exciting development on this site since we re-launched Radio3 back in November of 2005,” and he’s right.
(This is not simply the same feed as channel 94 on Sirius, but a unique station created exclusively for the web.)
Have a listen and let me know what you think in the comments.
|
Email This Post |
| CBC Radio 3 |
Hi Tod. Thanks for the great link. I am going to call a Buck what is however…….CBC Radio 3 tries way too hard to be cool and not hard enough in making their apps and propaganda user-friendly. Could you please cut through all this and please provide a working link to this new station?
thanks alot
chris
I would hardly call this a “radio station” as it is just a playlist of mp3s. There’s nothing live about it at all.
Nice site-too bad about the awful “music.”
Great Job Johnny CBC!
A Brilliant stream of new music.
Okay, I admit it, I “snapped” in my earlier comment. I did eventually figure out that the “radio station” is referring to the rather cumbersome media player that has always been embedded in the site. I did hear canned(I am sure it was not live, but please prove me wrong) commentary today, so I guess it qualifies as a radio station. That said, what relevance do this listed tracks in this player have? Again, i’m almost certain they do not represent the current play-list playing. I guess when your spoiled with 3 yr old friendly apps like freakbook and Google Inc, the less user-friendly ones throw you off a bit.
chris
Great news indeed! Still, I think calling it a “radio station” is a stretch. I can only wish that CBC Radio 3 were a proper radio station (in the traditional sense) and one that all Canadians could access easily and preferably free.
Anonymous, you should try listening to the stream. There are hosts (who are live at least some of the time), interviews, and features on top of the music. What exactly do you call a “radio station”?
Chris, Re the link to web radio, Tod did provide the link to Radio3. It was the link to my post on Radio3 where the web stream lives. Here it is again:
http://radio3.cbc.ca/
Anonymous, no really… it’s a radio station, I swear. If you are a regular visitor, then you’ll have to clear you cache to load the new radio stream (you may still be receiving the old music-only stream. If you’ve never been, than you just have to wait through a few songs. Generally speaking there is considerably more rock than talk, which is maybe by you haven’t heard anyone.
It’s not quite a real, live radio station, and I’m not sure why the CBC did this, but I’ve been listening for hours tonight and I’m really enjoying it. Just like Saturday nights in the old days, before CBC2 shot itself in the foot.
I think I finally get it!!! it took a while, but I think I got it. I still wonder what it’d take however to get some Niel Young-Live at Massey Hall 1971 onto the track listing. He’s still CDN isn’t he?
Chris,
I believe that the musicians played on Radio 3 (on the podcast anyhow) have agreed already to have their music played out over podcasts and the web. Musicians who already have big record company recording contracts, their situation is different, it’s more complex to get the rights to play their music on the web.
Come on, try out some newer music, there’s something for everyone on Radio 3. What goes around (stylistically) comes around again… I hear a lot of music that has a bit of a retro feel (80s music is what my ear perks up for)