Audio and video on a wide-variety of subjects from sports to business to news to entertainment can be found online. BBC, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Rolling Stone, C-SPAN, Sony, ESPN, NHL, and National Public Radio are but a few. The Progressive Networks' Real Guide lists 1,200 live audio radio stations and 94 stations using streaming video. Other uses currently include corporate conference calls, full-length CDs, movie trailers, audio books and poetry, in an entertaining multimedia or interactive form. Both live and taped streaming media can find rich applications in training and education.
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Evidence of how accessible it has become is that individuals not only corporate giants, can create and use streaming video on their Web sites. Campus lectures are an excellent source of video. For the past two years, whenever I have sponsored an ethics-related lecture on campus, I have asked our Media Center to videotape the event. I have also asked the speaker for a second release, one which would allow me to broadcast that lecture over the Web. Before I would have asked students to read some of Gilligan's essays.