What is a news feed?
A news feed is a summary of a website’s frequently changing content. One example of this is the list of a blog’s recent posts. News Anchor supports reading news feeds in the RSS or ATOM format.
What is a channel?
A channel defines the news show broadcast. It determines the collection of news feeds that will be read out, their reading order, and how many articles will be taken from each feeds. A channel typically has more than one feed and a feed may be assigned to multiple channels. Furthermore a channel defines how often News Anchor will generate an episode for it, which may be hourly, daily, or weekly.
What are episodes?
An episode is an instance of a channel. It contains the actual article text obtained from the news feeds of the channel and their images if any. Episodes are generated periodically when news anchor is running.
I have added a feed to a channel but when I play the episode, the new feed is not displayed. Why?
Changes to a news feed will only be visible when the next episode is generated. If you would like to see your changes, press the Refresh button on the tool bar to refresh feeds and generate channel episodes – your changes should be visible in the new episodes that are generated.
What are the news feeds most appropriate to News Anchor?
News Anchor are best used with news feeds that are:
- medium length — about a paragraph or two
- has an image associated with it
- Written in English
- Formatted in RSS or ATOM
