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How Podcasting and Satellite Changed Radio
prostoalex writes "Business Week magazine discusses how podcasting changes the radio industry: "Consider the basics: With no licenses, no frequencies, and no towers, ordinary people are busy creating audio programming for thousands of others. They're bypassing an entire industry."
The article notes about some advertising deals that podcasters managed to procure, but it also notes that another industry, satellite radio, represented by Sirius and XM Satellite radio, is already changing the radio landscape."
The difference is, Shout/Icecasting is just that... Radio. Podcasting is something different:
1. It is different in that the low-speed delayed delivery makes publishing (read: bandwidth) costs much cheaper, and it stacks with BitTorrent.
2. It is different in that the listener doesn't have to schedule their listening around a broadcaster. The TiVo metaphor is apt.
3. It is different in that it is built around mobile. Shoutcast is great, unless you are in your car on an hour and a half commute on 285.
Personally, I think Satellite radio is doomed business. Once 3G-ish technologies roll out widely enough, shout/icecast will kill satellite radio dead. I mean, why have this extra box and another subscription service when you already have a cell phone and an iPod?
how about 2600.com?
how about leo laporte's radio show?
i do agree, Podcasting is very close to what the web is, lots of annoying tripe. think of it this way, every time you hear a podcast with lots of soundeffects and trying to sound like a big-time DJ, that's the equliviant of the html BLINK tag or an annoying animated GIF.
Lots of the NPR shows are available as a podcast.
Right now there are only a few good outlets of quality programming for podcasts, that will continue as well as the tripe. example? sure, one called the Wizards of technology, they suck horribly! every show is 15 minutes of talking about HOW to get the podcast or WHERE to get the podcast and then the rest of it is nothing more than mindless drivel with no content. Also the guy that is claiming he started podcasting, that out of work MTV Vee-jay. His podcasts are pretty mind numbing, he tries to keep you awake by saying a bit of profanity here and there.
Granted, I am glad they are producing the drivel, some people out there are eating it up. But overall it is making radio shows sit up and pay attention. Click and Clack from NPR will be podcasting soon as well as I hear roumors that howard Stern will be offering a PAY-FOR podcast of his show.
that is something else, I am willing to pay a buck to download a podcast that is worthwile if they are not interested in getting advertising to sponsor them... and I'm not the only one.
My biggest problem is that all the podcast apps SUCK. they all assume you use iTunes and an ipod. I dont.
I want one to simply write the files and a properly formatted m3u file.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
While it may just be a fad, I don't "spend" any time downloading Podcast content. When I wake up in the morning my Powerbook has already done the work during the night. Schedules and RSS feeds are a beautiful thing. As for "just to play later", isn't that what gets people so excited about PVR's? I love being able to find a favorite show and always have it available on my iPod for when I'm in the car or at the gym. Okay, okay. So just in the car, but my point still stands.
Try the Dawn and Drew show http://www.dawnanddrew.com/.
It's quite funny, really. There are others, as well, including a podcast of Air America's daily programming (http://www.airamericaplace.com/), which you'll get a few days late, but is still entertaining (especially for those of us stuck in the Hannitized Savage Nation of Rush).
What most people here don't seem to understand is that podcasting is, currently, a purely talk format. Since most talk radio (with rare exceptions, above) is directed at a very specific Rapture Right listenership, it's nice to have lots of topics and styles to choose from. Music barely enters into it, unless the subject is music.