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Viacom Launches Podcast-Only Radio Station

Posted by timothy on from the mix-tapes-for-crushes dept.

prostoalex writes "Figuring out it couldn't get any worse, Viacom is turning an underperforming talk radio station in San Francisco into podcasting central. KYOU Radio performed so poorly in the ratings that it would not even show up on the official Arbitron radio rankings for the city of San Francisco. Now the Web site of the station owned by $56.5 billion corporation features a hip young look and claims to be the Open Source Radio. Visitors can upload the podcasts of their own in MP3, AIFF, AVI or WMA formats (no OGG support by someone who's so accepting of open source)."

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  1. Good idea by katana · · Score: 5, Funny

    Radio that's just as good as your local public-access TV channels. Won't that be awesome.

  2. With apologies to the Buggles by NZheretic · · Score: 4, Funny
    Ipodding Killed The Drive Time Radio Star.

    I heard you on the wireless back in Ninety Two
    Driving to work intent at tuning in on you.
    If I was jammed it didn't stop you coming through.

    Oh-a oh

    They took the credit for your shock jock comedy.
    Recorded on Ipods and new technology,
    and now I understand the problems you can see.

    Oh-a oh

    I met your children

    Oh-a oh

    What did you tell them?

    Ipodding killed the drive time star.
    Ipodding killed the drive time star.

    Downloads came and broke your heart.

    Oh-a-a-a oh.

    And now we meet in an household studio.
    We hear the playback and it seems so long ago.
    But we all agree Clear Channel has to go.

    Oh-a oh.

    You were the last ones.

    Oh-a oh.

    We are the next ones.

    Ipodding killed the drive time star.
    Ipodding killed the drive time star.
    On my hip and in my car, we can rewind if we've gone to far.

    Oh-a-aho oh,
    Oh-a-aho oh

    Ipodding killed the drive time star.
    Ipodding killed the drive time star.

    On my hip and in my car, we can rewind if we've gone to far.
    Downloads came and broke your heart, put the blame on Adam Curry.