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Glendale, AZ -- The Glendale Daily
Planet / KKAT-IPTV, an IPTV station owned by Ed Sharpe of
Glendale, Arizona, unveiled today the latest technology to be
deployed by the station. “Podcasting,” according to
Sharpe, “Has been around for a few years. The public first
heard of it in connection with Apple’s iPod and iTunes, but
the technology goes far beyond that and has recently been
referred to as Personal On Demand, or POD casting.
It’s a way for individuals to retrieve the latest news from
their favorite sources without having to visit the web site
every day to check for new stories. They are
automatically delivered to the individual’s computer, iPod,
iPhone or other net capable cell phone.”
The version of this technology deployed
by the Glendale Daily Planet was developed in collaboration
with Achieve Radio, a 'State of the Art' IP Radio network also
based in Glendale. According to Achieve Radio owner Bill
Schreiner, “The engineering teams at the Glendale Daily
Planet and Achieve Radio work very closely together.
It’s a natural, since we don't compete for the same markets.
The Glendale Daily Planet / KKAT-IPTV
handles Glendale Arizona news video and online news
stories and Achieve Radio does motivational and inspirational radio
programming. From the engineering side, we deal with similar
technology on a daily basis. Achieve Radio has been
podcasting radio shows for over 2 years with great success and
substantial acceptance from our world wide audience. The
advances in personal devices, such as the iPhone and
Blackberry, as well as the inclusion of RSS aggregators as
standard features in most web browsers, have made video
podcasting on a large scale practical and useful to a large
percentage of Planet viewers, so we worked together to deploy
a video podcast solution for the Planet.”
The use of this technology from the
viewer’s perspective, according to Schreiner, couldn't be
simpler. “RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.
And it is. A viewer simply adds the RSS, or Podcast,
address to their RSS aggregator, a built in feature in recent
browsers and many other soft and hardware devices, and presto,
the most recent stories are automatically there, ready to be
viewed.”
Both the Glendale Daily Planet and
Achieve Radio have offered downloadable audio and video files
for years. The new twist is the use of the RSS ( Really
Simple Syndication). Ed Sharpe states that, “This technology
is a time saver for our viewers. It frees them from
having to visit our web site to check for new shows and
stories. The headline, a short synopsis and a link to
the video are now automatically at the viewers finger tips
every day. They can check for new information on several
sites in less time than it used to take to check one.”
Bill Schreiner adds, “Information on
demand, in a timely fashion, is what the web is all about, of
course. And this is another step up in that process.
Just think of it... The computer fetches
your electronic based news for you, just like your dog brings
you the newspaper in the morning!
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In addition to his work With KKAT-IPTV,
CouryGraph Productions and the Glendale Daily Planet, Ed
Sharpe is the webmaster for MCA-I Chapter 44 in Phoenix
Arizona and a member of the national Media Communications
Association-International Association.
Sharpe also is a member of Sharpe also
is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts
and Sciences (NATAS), Society of Broadcast Engineers(SBE),
Investigative Reporters and Editors(IRE), Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Society of
Professional Journalists(SPJ), National Press Photographers
Association (NPPA), and other associations.
The Glendale Arizona news work of Ed
Sharpe from CouryGraph Productions and other participative
community journalists and engineering staff may be viewed,
24-hours a day, seven days a week at http://www.glendaledailyplanet.com.
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The
Glendale Daily Planet / KKAT-IPTV, an IPTV station owned by Ed Sharpe of
Glendale, Arizona, unveiled today the latest technology to be deployed
by the station.
