Radio Stations - Podcasting

BigDragon

This is not podcasting as such and is starting to get on my wick. Podcasting is making unique niche narrowcasting availible at any time. Radio stations, mostly, just rebroadcast old shows....sometimes with more ads.

Maybe Im just being rententive in the ar$e dept. but its annoying.

projectmayhem

never really downloaded radio station podcasts... but i'm surprised they include all the ads. any topic they discuss is surely discussed on another podcast sans ads, with better people (usually imo)...

Patrickisperfec

I would like to start a podcast, I have already made about 5 episodes but am finding it hard to talk to myself for very long. I was wondering if anybody would be interested in doing it with me. The subject can be decided between us and I would do the editing and uploading.
You can do it from your own computer via Skype, msn or ichat ( ichat is the best but only available on macs).
It would be a little fun and nothing serious.
Thanks
PS If you have Broadband thats better

BrianD

BigDragon wrote:

This is not podcasting as such and is starting to get on my wick. Podcasting is making unique niche narrowcasting availible at any time. Radio stations, mostly, just rebroadcast old shows....sometimes with more ads.

Maybe Im just being rententive in the ar$e dept. but its annoying.

Why is not podcasting? It's providing content for a user to listen or to view on a digital player. According to Wikipedia ...

"Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio or video programs, over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. "

Podcasting is not narrowcasting and I think that that's an incorrect and some what elitist definition. I can't see why traditional broadcasters can't be considered as podcasters. Radio podcasts are effectively radio-on-demand. If RTE podcast their 1 o'clock radio news and it is listened to 12 hours later by somebody on the way to work in L.A, is this not what podcasting is about ...creating and distributing content that is of value to people?

flogen

Yeah, I consider radio stations to be podcasters too; I'd love to see them produce more unique content for their podcasts and frankly I rarely download a traditional radio show in the podcast format (unless someone tells me about something I missed etc.), but they are podcasts.

IMO the best use for the podcast medium is the production of content that can't be found anywhere else, but that's probably the best use for any medium (you wouldn't expect to read a transcript of a radio/tv show in a magazine or paper) but at the same time things like blogs and podcasts are so vast in defenition that most stuff applies...
To use another analogy I'd actually love to see a newspaper publish its articles online in a blog format; that way people could leave comments afterwards etc.

Hugh Hefner

I only download radio podcasts that aren't normally available to me (foreign ones, satelitte ones, etc.). I do however think it very depressing when the top rated podcasts on the Irish iTunes list have a very high percentage of native radio shows. It seems that the Irish podosphere is not a place for independantly recorded material.