What WorldSpace needs
I have been a WorldSpace listener for a couple of years now. Voyager is my favorite channel, and while I enjoy the music, there’s something missing from the experience.
Here is what WorldSpace needs, according to me:
- Bring the community together: The WorldSpace Forums are vacuous at best. Why not announce on the channels, along with the hourly channel reminder blurb? Tell people, and many will join in to discuss the music they like. You get a community to get constant feedback from. Instead of recreating a full-fledged music community with biographies/latest on artists, just integrate with popular community sites such as last.fm.
- Provide song listings on website: It will be convenient for listeners (specifically of stations like ‘The System’ - techno/trance) who are curious about the current playing number, but cannot figure out because they couldn’t catch the lyrics properly (and later search), or the portion didn’t have any lyrics at all. I typically end up searching on google with the lyrics to get the artist information.
- ‘Mix Channels’: The ‘Preview’ doesn’t cut it. Start ‘Mix Channels’ that combine genres whose fan following is likely to be common. If I like ‘Rock and Pop’, and if market research tells the company that there are thousands more like me, then it’d be a good move to have channels that mix and match (jumble up) the content on the two individual channels and present to the pleasure of these thousands.
- Portable ‘Personal’ devices. In-car receivers are out. But how about something to complement the iPods and the Zens? It may be an iPod add-on, or yet another small pocket device. The Market is calling. Where are you?
Back to the radio.
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