FYI, here is an email sent to the LPFM distribution group maintained
by The Society Of Low Power FM Broadcasters Incorporated.

BTW, if anyone in this LPFM group wishes to have their email address
added to our general distribution list, send an email to me in reply.

Radio New Zealand, offers Ogg Vorbis to their on line offerings
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In an email reply to GoFM about the article "Fight To Tune In" in 4th
June 2008 edition of the The Aucklander, which dealt with the LPFM
stations broadcasting under the banner "Unforgettable Music", I
mentioned an article I had read about the decision that Radio New
Zealand had recently made to add the open source (and therefore
proprietary free) OGG VORBIS format to their on line offerings.

The article appeared on the States based blog web site
http://www.groklaw.net, written by Pamela Jones, and recognised
internationally for its "innovative work ... of indispensable value to
those wishing to understand the twist and turns of copyright and
intellectual property as related to open source software now and
throughout time"
(http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=awards).

Here is a link to that article:

"Interview with Richard Hulse of Radio New Zealand, on the decision to
offer Ogg Vorbis"
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080821100600851

Some points worth noting:

- "...apart from the freedom aspect, the quality is better than MP3
for the same data rate"

- "It also gives people a choice, and opens up the content to those
who cannot or do not wish to install non-free codecs on their system."

- "The software that interfaces between our internal proprietary
enterprise broadcast systems (audio and text) and the CMS is also
built using free software (Perl). In this case, the main reason is
that we have complete control (i.e. freedom) to modify and improve the
software, and this is one of the keys to constantly improving the site
- we can make small incremental changes as often as they are needed."

Well worth a read, IMHO.

BRgds,
Peter Shaw
Secretary
The Society of Low Power FM Broadcasters Incorporated
Auckland
New Zealand