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NPR Planet Money

Nathan Lubeck — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:21:58 +0000

Our second streaming broadcast from the The Eli & Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica went off without a hitch — check out the archived show on Tuesday, April 21st at kcrw.com

Here’s a short description of the program:
“...join the charismatic team of This American Life’s Alex Blumberg and NPR’s Adam Davidson for an entertaining live stage show here in Los Angeles explaining the economic crisis in human terms.”

And check out the NPR podcast here.

KCRW Tracklist System

Nathan Lubeck — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:54:08 +0000

Just completed the new KCRW tracklist system. Instead of the old (and outdated) table based static system, KCRW.com now has an auto-updating tracklist complete with AJAX effects, integrated ads, RSS feeds, etc…

NEW FEATURES
User Experience: A significantly improved user experience through better design and functionality.

Search: Unlike our previous playlists these pages are fully searchable with data going back to 2006. Want so search by artist, song, label, channel, host, date you can do it.

Sharing: Track lists for specific shows and custom searches can now be bookmarked on your browser or shared with friends on Facebook, MySpace, etc.

MP3 Ecom: Auto search Amazon and iTunes with “buy now” links

Also: DJ Comments, Band members (when there is a live performance), and advertisement support (two banner sizes that mirror the KCRW media player for consistency)

I created the design in-house and outsourced the html/css production. The application was programmed by two independent developers. Project managed in Basecamp.

Check it out at http://newmedia.kcrw.com/tracklists

UPDATE: It seems even with pinging Feedburner their RSS feed is still only updated at 30min intervals. Looking into a locally hosted/cached way of offering a feed. I’m also working on updating the usablility based on the feedback the KCRW interactive team has been getting.

LRC Live

Nathan Lubeck — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:51:58 +0000

This coming Sunday at 5PM I’ll be working with Interactive Producer Rob Lafond to do a live webcast of Left, Right, and Center Live at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. We’ll be using Flash Media Live Encoder and Limelight Networks to stream live video via Flash Player. Check out KCRW.com Sunday to watch Arianna Huffington, Matt Miller, Robert Scheer and Tony Blankley discuss the current state of politics — the show will be simulcast over the web and on the air.

Kyte.tv Mobile Content

Nathan Lubeck — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:20:32 +0000

A few months back I contacted Tesa from Kyte.com to find a way for volunteers during the KCRW pledge drive to interact with listeners. We setup a webcam streaming volunteer comments via branded Kyte player and received around 150,000 player hits in a week. Since then the station purchased Nokia N95 8gig phones to hand out to producers at various events. We can now produce quality mobile video content on the fly (even live streaming video if need be). So far we’ve gathered behind the scenes content from the Democratic National Convention, Republican National Convention, and now CMJ08 from New York. There’s a Kyte application for Symbian phones as well as the iPhone. Also, a Facebook app for social networking sharing, chat and audio comments from within the player, and embed codes.

KCRW Media Player featured on Adobe

Nathan Lubeck — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:52:24 +0000

KCRW Media Player

The Flash based media player we at KCRW and Digitaria worked so hard on was featured today in Adobe’s Customer Showcase as the “Site of the Day”

Previously mentioned in Wired and given a Webby honorable mention. The player serves up on-demand and live video through a CDN network. Ads and pre-rolls are served through Castfire.