![]() ![]() This paper will discuss the opportunities that have been opened up for writers and producers of radio drama through the development of online and downloadable audio. ![]() ![]() Online audio drama creates the potential not just for new forms and patterns of listening (on-demand and audience controlled) or for revised methods of plot structuring (with series stacking allowing for the use of extended narrative arcs) but of a complete re-creation of the listening experience as being part of an act of transmedia storytelling – one in which the narrative spins out of the fictive realm and overlays the ‘lived’ experience of the listener. The results reveal the consolidation of two clearly defined models: a more conventional one based on radio bulletins and news reports and another, more innovative model that replicates the anglophone formula that opts for depth, dissemination, and a conversational tone to redefine the canons of the audio news narrative and take advantage of the potential of audio as a new distribution channel for newspapers in the digital eco-system. This investigation analyses daily podcasts in Spain and, by means of a quantitative and qualitative study, identifies their main themes, narrative structures, and expressive contributions based on four illustrative experiences in this market: ‘Quién dice qué‘, ‘AM’, ‘El Mundo al día’, and ‘Un tema al día’. The unprecedented success of this audio format, that has emerged in a traditional newspaper, has helped to revamp radio news and has spread in various versions all over the world. On the 1st of February 2017, The New York Times published the first episode of ‘The Daily’, a news podcast hosted by Michael Barbaro that, five years later, has become the most popular in the world with four million listeners each day and more than 3000 million accumulated downloads. ![]()
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