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The word webcast is derived from "web" and "broadcast". Its use has varied since the early-mid 1990s as the nature of the medium came into public use.
Webcasting is sending audio and/or video live over the Internet. In essence, webcasting can be thought of as broadcasting over the Internet. Audio can mean: Sounding that can be heard. ...
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images which represent scenes in motion. ...
Usage
The generally accepted use of the term webcast is the "transmission of linear audio or video content over the Internet".
A webcast uses streaming media technology to take a single content source and distribute it to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. Streaming media is media that is consumed (heard or viewed) (mostly in the form of clips) while it is being delivered. ...
The largest "webcasters" include existing radio and TV stations who "simulcast" their output, as well as a multitude of Internet only "stations". The term webcasting is usually reserved for referring to non-interactive linear streams or live events. Simulcast is a contraction of simultaneous broadcast, and refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium at the same time. ...
Rights and licensing bodies offer specific "Webcasting licenses" to those wishing to carry out Internet broadcasting using copyright material.
Webcasting is also used extensively in the commercial sector for investor relations presentations (such as Annual General Meetings), in E-learning (to transmit seminars), and for related communications activities. However, webcasting does not bear much, if any, relationship to the idea of Web conferencing which is designed for many-to-many interaction. This article does not cite its references or sources. ...
The ability to webcast using cheap/accessible technology has allowed independent media to flourish. There are many notable independent shows that broadcast regularly online. Often produced by average citizens in their homes they cover many interests and topics; from the mundane to the bizarre. Webcasts relating to computers, technology, and news are particularly popular and many new shows are added regularly. Alternative media are defined most broadly as those media practices falling outside the mainstreams of corporate communication. ...
Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing Note: broadcasting is also a term for hand sowing. ...
By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a level of technological mastery sufficient to leave the surface of the planet for the first time and explore space. ...
Origins "Webcasting" was conceived, first publicly described and presented by Brian Raila of GTE Laboratories at InterTainment '89, 1989, held in New York City, USA. Raila recognized that a viewer/listener need not download the entirety of a program to view/listen to a portion thereof, so long as the receiving device ("client computer") could, over time, receive and present data more rapidly than the user could digest same. Raila used the term "buffered media" to describe this concept.
Raila was joined by James Paschetto of GTE Laboratories to further demonstrate the concept. Paschetto was singularly responsible for the first workable prototype of streaming media, which Raila presented and demonstrated at the Voice Mail Association of Europe 1995 Fall Meeting of October, 1995, in Montreux, Switzerland.
The term webcasting was coined (in the early/mid 1990s) when webcast/streaming pioneers Mark Cuban (Audionet), Howard Gordon (Xing Technologies), William Mutual (ITV.net) and Peggy Miles (InterVox Communications) got together with a community of webcasters to pick a term to describe the technology of sending audio and video on the Net...that might make sense to people. The term netcasting was a consideration, but one of the early webcast community members owned a company called NetCast, so that term was not used, seeking a name that would not be branded to one company. Discussions were also conducted about the term with the National Association of Broadcasters for their books - Internet Age Broadcaster I and II, written by Peggy Miles and Dean Sakai. Mark Cuban Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [1] is an American billionaire entrepreneur. ...
Howard Gordon is an American screenwriter and producer. ...
Peggy Miles was an early pioneer in webcasting and digital media commencing in 1995. ...
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is the industry group representing the commercial radio stations and television stations of the United States. ...
The actual word "webcast" was coined by Daniel Keys Moran in his 1988 novel "The Armageddon Blues." Daniel Keys Moran (DKM) is a computer programmer and a writer of science fiction, who was born on 1962-11-30 to Richard Joseph Moran and Marilynn Moran. ...
"... DataWeb News had done an in-depth on it not two weeks ago, and tourists had been trekking up into the New York hills ever since the webcast." -- Page 191 of the Bantam paperback.
Examples Virtually all the major broadcasters have a webcast of their output, from the BBC to CNN to Al Jazeera to UNTV Webcast in television to Radio China, Vatican Radio, United Nations Radio and the World Service in radio. For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...
The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ...
Al Jazeera logo Al Jazeera (الجزيرة), meaning The Island or The (Arabian) Peninsula (whence also Algiers) is an Arabic television channel based in Qatar. ...
Logo of the BBC World Service The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming, transmitting in 43 languages to around 150 million people throughout the world. ...
A notable webcast took place in September 1999 to launch NetAid, a project to promote Internet use in the world's poorest countries. Three high profile concerts were to be broadcast simultaneously on the BBC, MTV and over the Internet; a London concert at Wembley Stadium featuring the likes of Robbie Williams, George Michael; a New York concert featuring Bono of U2 and Wyclef Jean; a Geneva concert. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
NetAid was a largely unsuccessful concert event that took place on October 9, 1999, hoping to harness the power of the Internet to raise money and awareness for the Jubilee 2000 campaign. ...
For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...
MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network headquartered in New York City. ...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Wembley Stadium is a football stadium located in Wembley, London. ...
For footballers with the same name, see Robbie Williams (footballer). ...
George Michael(born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou on 25 June 1963) is a half English, half Greek Cypriot singer-songwriter who performs soul influenced pop, and who (as a solo artist and half of the duo WHAM!) has enjoyed global success since 1982. ...
This article is about the U.S. state. ...
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This article is about the Irish rock band. ...
Nelust Wyclef Jean (IPA pronunciation: ) (born October 17, 1972) is an Haitian-American rapper, reggae artist, producer, and member of the superstar hip hop trio The Fugees, known now for a series of high-profile hit singles in the 1990s. ...
Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German: //, Italian: Ginevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich), and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). ...
More recently, Live8 (AOL) claimed around 170,000 concurrent viewers (up to 400 Kbit/s) and the BBC received about the same (10 Gbit/s) on the day of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London. The growth of webcast traffic has roughly doubled, year on year, since 1995 and is directly linked to broadband penetration. AOL LLC (formerly America Online, Inc) is an American online service provider, bulletin board system, and media company operated by Time Warner. ...
For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...
In the corporate world companies like Interactive Video Technologies [1], ON24 [2], Accordent [3], Stream UK, GoodMood [4]and Sonic Foundry [5]sell software and/or services to run live and on-demand webcasts with synchronized information such as PowerPoint slides, Polls, Question & Answer sessions, etc. The popularity of this type of interactive presentation has exploded and almost every mid to large size corporation is using webcasting for training, corporate communications, marketing, etc. Category: ...
See also .NET Show Beecon Behind the Music that Sucks CFR-TV - Weekly episodes relating to the military and conflict. ...
Video clips are short clips in video format and predominantly found on the internet where the massive influx of new video clips during 2006 has been dubbed as a new phenomenon having a profound impact on both the internet and other forms of media. ...
A media clip is a short segment of media either an audio clip or a video clip. ...
Web radio (or Internet radio) is a broadcasting service transmitted via the Internet. ...
A webisode is a web based episodic video show. ...
An orange square with waves was introduced by Mozilla Firefox to indicate that an RSS feed is present on a webpage. ...
Netcast is a name proposed by Leo Laporte on 22 September 2006 as an alternative for podcast. ...
Videoblog, a portmanteau combining video, web, and log, (usually shortened to vlog) is a blog that includes video clips. ...
A Webinar is a seminar which is conducted over the World Wide Web. ...
Streaming media is media that is consumed (heard or viewed) (mostly in the form of clips) while it is being delivered. ...
This is a list of streaming media resources found on the Internet. ...
External links - IWA (The International Webcasting Association, founded 1996) - IWA WebcastingWiki
- Webcasting Exchange - Short articles on webcasting
- Webcasts - Resources on webcasts
- Webcast Listings - Publicly available webcasts
- Webcasters United - Resources and information for webcasters
- Webcast Academy Training community for the beginner webcaster
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