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Jim Simmons

Senior Product Manager

Blog posts in total 7

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Broadcasting the World Cup and Wimbledon in UHD - the full story

Thursday 19 July 2018, 11:00

Jim Simmons from D+E Platform Media Services, discusses our experience of delivering live Ultra High Definition at scale for the World Cup and Wimbledon on a round-by-round basis.

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Normalising our loudness

Monday 22 January 2018, 07:00

Product manager Jim Simmons writes about applying consistent loudness normalisation levels on BBC audio clips and podcasts.

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Audio Factory update: the BBC's audio streaming system one year on

Monday 01 February 2016, 16:15

Audio Factory has enabled a lot of new features for listeners since its release in February 2015. As the first anniversary approaches, this blog updates on what has been happening and what the plans are for the future.

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Audio Factory: BBC Radio 3 HD Sound on Shoutcast

Tuesday 17 February 2015, 12:29

We are still talking to manufacturers and many are confident that they will be able to provide their s with access to all 57 of our HLS AAC streams at 320kb/s within a few weeks or months.

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Audio Factory: update

Monday 09 February 2015, 19:49

We have been communicating our plans to manufacturers and aggregators for the last 12 months but we are aware that some devices will not be able to receive these new formats .

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Start times on BBC Radio on demand programmes

Thursday 15 January 2015, 12:01

Let’s start with two simple questions. What time does Woman’s Hour on Radio 4 start and how long is it? The answers are of course, that it starts at 10:00:00, 10:02:00 and 10:02:07 and its duration is 1 hour, 58 minutes, 57 minutes, 56’ 53”, 45 minutes, 43 minutes and 42’57”.

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Audio Factory: BBC Radio to stop ing Windows Media on December 31st

Wednesday 24 September 2014, 11:14

Radio will stop ing Windows Media on December 31st. This will have an effect on some online listeners, as we know that some devices cannot the new http streaming methods or the AAC codec.

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