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Thanks for the quick responses to my question, even though they bring disappointing news.
I now use the third part Listen Again app on my mobile phone to catch up on BBC radio (alongside the TuneIn app for live radio).
Another Blog has been posted which mentions radio some more.
Quote:Marcus Parnwell in his post about the new BBC iPlayer on TVs responded to people who are unhappy that radio is no longer available:“The data we used for making this decision was entirely usage based. We have been monitoring the number of plays for radio on demand content on a monthly basis for the last 6 months. In terms of figures, taking the month of April 2014, we saw that radio usage on TVs made up 1% of the total radio usage across devices. Similarly, when compared to all audio and video usage on TVs, that figure drops below 1%. I understand this does not give any comfort but this decision was not taken lightly…”
Andrew Scott (General Manager, BBC iPlayer Radio) also commented:
“…we are currently evaluating how best to bring Radio to connected TV devices in a way that will be more widely used, probably as a combination of an application on the TV itself (which is a fairly expensive business when you take into account the testing across different TV manufacturers and models) and devices like Google Chromecast integrated with the iPlayer Radio mobile application in a similar way to how we integrated support for Apple Airplay.
We’ve read all of your comments here and I’d be really interested to hear more of your thoughts on this – please email radiofeedback@bbc.co.uk…”
Quote:Andrew Scott (General Manager, BBC iPlayer Radio) also commented:“…we are currently evaluating how best to bring Radio to connected TV devices in a way that will be more widely used, probably as a combination of an application on the TV itself (which is a fairly expensive business when you take into account the testing across different TV manufacturers and models) and devices like Google Chromecast integrated with the iPlayer Radio mobile application in a similar way to how we integrated support for Apple Airplay.
I find the Radioplayer app a lot more usable than iPlayer Radio.
JamesB – 6 months ago »
Quote:Andrew Scott (General Manager, BBC iPlayer Radio) also commented:“…we are currently evaluating how best to bring Radio to connected TV devices in a way that will be more widely used, probably as a combination of an application on the TV itself (which is a fairly expensive business when you take into account the testing across different TV manufacturers and models) and devices like Google Chromecast integrated with the iPlayer Radio mobile application in a similar way to how we integrated support for Apple Airplay.
I find the Radioplayer app a lot more usable than iPlayer Radio.
The updated iPlayer Radio app for iPad is a big improvement IMO. Also available for Android tablets I believe.
It would be great if the BBC would add this app to its other apps on the Freetime boxes.
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