Mike Machnik, on-air talent, wrote:
 
>> On a related note, it looks like broadcast.com (nee Audionet) is beginning
>> to charge a lot more money to people who want to use their services to
>> broadcast events.  It will be interesting to see what kind of effect this
>> has on the schools that have been using broadcast.com to air their hockey
>> games, especially the smaller schools.  Again, it isn't free, and in fact
>> far from it now, perhaps partly because broadcast.com just went public and
>> is now accountable to shareholders.  The schools that continue to do it are
>> going to have to find some way to either justify the cost or do other
>> things to cover it, and increased sponsorship may be one of the answers.
 
        Or just stop going through broadcast.com.  Seven of the twelve
ECAC schools had at least some hockey broadcasts on the net last
season, and only two of them used AudioNet.  And Cornell's broadcasts
were also available directly; the AudioNet URL just pointed you at the
other address.  As I understand it, schools going through
broadcast.com still have to provide their own RealAudio server; all
they seem to get out of the arrangement is publicity.
 
Arthur Berman says:
 
>I use broadcast.com all the time in the summer to hear major league
>baseball.  Before the game clicks in I have to listen to an advertisement.
>I know why it is there and I don't mind.
 
        Of course, if you access the .ram file using lynx, you can
read the pnm addresses for the ad and the game, and just enter the
latter.  Good for switching quickly between broadcasts.
 
>I might pay a fee to hear BU hockey on the net if I had no other source.
 
        Don't do it!  Don't pay TeamLine, don't pay anyone!  (Anyway,
AudioNet once swore that they would never charge their users.
Hopefully that hasn't changed with the net name.)
 
                                         John Whelan, Cornell '91
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