Air America Radio Charging for Archives

[dampier]

AAR is launching "premium" memberships for access to commercial-free show archives around February 1st. Independently assembled show archives by third party sites may or may not still be around after then, but here are the proposed rates:

Single Show Membership

$1.95 1-day pass (one time charge)
$6.95 per month
$29.95 billed every 6 months
$49.95 per year

Gold Membership (Access to all shows)

$10.95 per month
$49.95 billed every 6 months
$69.95 per year

The better value is obviously the "gold" membership for access to all AAR shows. As with Stephanie Miller's show, a lot of these shows are "pirated" are re-uploaded to newsgroups and bit torrent networks for free.

 

[autopaint-1]

> AAR is launching "premium" memberships for access to
> commercial-free show archives around February 1st.
> Independently assembled show archives by third party sites
> may or may not still be around after then, but here are the
> proposed rates:
>
> Single Show Membership
>
> $1.95 1-day pass (one time charge)
> $6.95 per month
> $29.95 billed every 6 months
> $49.95 per year
>
> Gold Membership (Access to all shows)
>
> $10.95 per month
> $49.95 billed every 6 months
> $69.95 per year
>
> The better value is obviously the "gold" membership for
> access to all AAR shows. As with Stephanie Miller's show, a
> lot of these shows are "pirated" are re-uploaded to
> newsgroups and bit torrent networks for free.
>
Well I have a link to two AA archive sites, one is bit torent and to be honest I listen live. There is rarely anyhting archived that I MUST have.

 

[doc9464]

> > AAR is launching "premium" memberships for access to
> > commercial-free show archives around February 1st.
> > Independently assembled show archives by third party sites
>

question: the white rose archive asks for the permission of many of the hosts to archive their shows and Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy both give free access to several archivers....

What about the future for White Rose and other archivers who do have permission?

 

[Nate Wesley]

> AAR is launching "premium" memberships for access to
> commercial-free show archives around February 1st.
> Independently assembled show archives by third party sites
> may or may not still be around after then...

If this means the end of free podcasts on airamericaplace.com (a site I'm not sure is actually affiliated with AAR), then there goes 95% of my listening. No affiliate within hundreds of milles, no XM Radio, and listening online is a bother with dial-up service at home and several incoming phone calls.

Directly downloading mp3s weren't a problem since the local community college has an educational high-speed network in its public library, and that's how I largely stayed in touch with AAR programming. Looks like the free ride is over.<P ID="signature">______________
What, you were expecting me to make sense for a change?</P>

 

[mwebster]

Save your money

All these different subscriptions out there, it adds up quickly.
I record the (free) live audio stream with Replay A/V. The new version processes the audio stream directly without running it through the sound card allowing you to listen to one thing and download another (or you can record through the sound card the old fashioned way).
It's not free software but one fee fits all.
http://www.applian.com/

 

[dampier]

> If this means the end of free podcasts on
> airamericaplace.com (a site I'm not sure is actually
> affiliated with AAR), then there goes 95% of my listening.
> No affiliate within hundreds of milles, no XM Radio, and
> listening online is a bother with dial-up service at home
> and several incoming phone calls.

Yes it does. In fact the guy doing it over there has been contracted by AAR to provide the service. All I say is, he'd better do a better job of getting shows posted quickly if he expects us to pay for it.

I am waiting to see what happens to the free www.randirhodesarchives.com with this. He does a faster and better job than AAR place.

 

[Nate Wesley]

> Yes it does. In fact the guy doing it over there has been
> contracted by AAR to provide the service. All I say is,
> he'd better do a better job of getting shows posted quickly
> if he expects us to pay for it.
>

I've never had a problem with the timeliness of the daily shows. WHEN I regularly listened to Morning Sedition (I hadn't since last summer or early fall), that morning's show would be ready for direct download that same day. Some of the weekend programming (Kyle Jason or 'On the Real') had been slow, though.
<P ID="signature">______________
"I have the feeling about 60% of what you say is crap."--David Letterman underestimates Bill O'Reilly</P>

 

[Scribbler]

> question: the white rose archive asks for the permission of
> many of the hosts to archive their shows and Randi Rhodes
> and Mike Malloy both give free access to several
> archivers....
>
> What about the future for White Rose and other archivers who
> do have permission?

The shows are owned by Air America, not Rhodes and Malloy. White Rose had to stop archiving Bernie Ward's shows (even though he had given permission) because KGO objected.