Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 13:33:36 GMT
Podcasting died out by 2010, but has been re-invented by newcomers ignorant of history, and some of the neo-podders keep repeating the mantra that radio is obsolete because podcast.
Only 5-minutes ago I hit the stop button on "The Pub - Episode 60", the podcast of "Current", the magazine and website of public radio. Adam Ragusea was man-splaining to an audience of "Radio Scholarly Interest Group" how public stations still bear the expense of towers and FCC licenses but have branched into podcasting, clearly the liberating form of audio communication that is to radio what television was to movies. Adam said that when you turn on NPR's "Morning Edition" you'll start listening in the middle of a story, and he said that one never starts listening to the middle of a podcast, we start from the beginning.
What Adam skipped was the fact that most of us are no longer listening by the middle of a podcast because we become bored by hosts who like to hear themselves talk.
As a person of scholarly interest acting on behalf of the ALPB I got sidetracked with this podcast stuff starting at 6 AM, 2-hours ago, when I decided to compile a list of the many podcasts springing up as extensions of popular news sites, since podcasts provide program choices for part 15 radio stations.
News sites that produce podcasts include Counterpunch, Truthdig, Mother Jones, Tech Dirt, Boing Boing, and soon the New York Times.
About 5-years ago the New York Times closed it's podcasts, which at the time included a 5-minute "Front Page" consisting of the news items from the actual front page of the esteemed paper, as heard on KDX Worldround Radio, the same place I'm typing. Now, probably some new people who weren't there, have announced the coming New York Times Podcasts.
On his "podcast is the future" podcast, "Radio Survivor", Paul Riismandel has come up with the idea of making his podcast serve double duty as a public radio show, but he needs our donations to make that possible.
Meanwhile, my radio program, "The Low Power Hour", is not a podcast, but many listeners hear it as though it were a podcast by listening to it without a transmitter. I don't allow that, but there's no way I can stop it happening.
Only 5-minutes ago I hit the stop button on "The Pub - Episode 60", the podcast of "Current", the magazine and website of public radio. Adam Ragusea was man-splaining to an audience of "Radio Scholarly Interest Group" how public stations still bear the expense of towers and FCC licenses but have branched into podcasting, clearly the liberating form of audio communication that is to radio what television was to movies. Adam said that when you turn on NPR's "Morning Edition" you'll start listening in the middle of a story, and he said that one never starts listening to the middle of a podcast, we start from the beginning.
What Adam skipped was the fact that most of us are no longer listening by the middle of a podcast because we become bored by hosts who like to hear themselves talk.
As a person of scholarly interest acting on behalf of the ALPB I got sidetracked with this podcast stuff starting at 6 AM, 2-hours ago, when I decided to compile a list of the many podcasts springing up as extensions of popular news sites, since podcasts provide program choices for part 15 radio stations.
News sites that produce podcasts include Counterpunch, Truthdig, Mother Jones, Tech Dirt, Boing Boing, and soon the New York Times.
About 5-years ago the New York Times closed it's podcasts, which at the time included a 5-minute "Front Page" consisting of the news items from the actual front page of the esteemed paper, as heard on KDX Worldround Radio, the same place I'm typing. Now, probably some new people who weren't there, have announced the coming New York Times Podcasts.
On his "podcast is the future" podcast, "Radio Survivor", Paul Riismandel has come up with the idea of making his podcast serve double duty as a public radio show, but he needs our donations to make that possible.
Meanwhile, my radio program, "The Low Power Hour", is not a podcast, but many listeners hear it as though it were a podcast by listening to it without a transmitter. I don't allow that, but there's no way I can stop it happening.
