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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. See Violence IS the solution.... by sllim · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't worry we will get around to suing you eventually. But in the meantime you have those MP3's lying around....
    mind if we use them for something that we can turn a profit on?

  2. No Ogg support == Not open source? by Rollie+Hawk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    SlashDot supports open source, but they don't let me submit articles in PHP. You don't see me crying about it.

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    Before any liberals are tempted to mod up one of my comments, a word of warning: I'm actually making fun of you.