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A Group of Public Radio Companies Acquires Podcast App Pocket Casts (techcrunch.com)
NPR, WNYC Studios, WBEZ Chicago and This American Life announced today that they've acquired Pocket Casts, a podcast app created by Australian developer Shifty Jelly. From a report: That might sound like a lot of owners for one app, but the idea is to run Pocket Casts as a joint venture. And while former iHeartRadio executive Owen Grover is becoming CEO, NPR says the existing Pocket Casts team will remain in place, with founders Philip Simpson and Russell Ivanovic holding leadership roles in the company. All four of the acquirers have released their own apps already, but buying Pocket Casts should give them another way to become more involved in distribution and reach listeners directly. (This seems to be a growing concern among all public radio organizations -- in 2016, public radio marketplace PRX spun out a for-profit company called RadioPublic to focus on mobile apps.)
Please don't ruin Pocket Casts. I've been using it ever since Apple crapped the bed with the iOS 11 version of its own Podcast app.
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1) The urgent need to ban bump stocks
2) How soy has resulted in men becoming effeminate soyboys
3) Hosts files and why they are a cure-all for security issues
4) The various conspiracies perpetrated by George Soros, Jews, and the Vatican
5) Bad behavior by Muslims in Sweden
6) The many Slashdot users like Ol Olsoc, Zontar The Mindless, Coren22, arth1, and many others who have destroyed themselves arguing with APK
Get ready for a weekend of APK, with numerous posts in many articles!
RSS (Discovery) plus Podcast would work perfectly.
Sounds like NPR is already ruined, some people just haven't realized it yet.
Public radio and television is on the fast track to death through collusion, graft, and desperation. The only silver lining is that the internet has improved enough to provide online video, which can, given sufficient crowdfunded interest, provide shows like Nature and Mr Roger's Neighborhood entirely off the corporate teat. If they can make sure the end products are CC (whether BY SA, or BY NC) it will help bring about the public commons of television that was always envisioned, but didn't really happen in the TV days.
Cool! Now NPR will have a list of all the racist podcasts I listen to instead of their trash. I hope they share the data with the SPLC!
A viral hit by "The SoyBoyz": 'If you're going to TransManCisco? Wear jimmyhats + preparation H there. If you're going, to TransManCisco: You're gonna meet transtesticle soyboy not men there - If you're going TO TRANS-MAN-CISCO, you're gonna see a freakshow there! For those who come, to TRANSManCisco - Summer time shitpiles from junkies everywhere... In the streets of TransManCisco! Weirdos with AIDS everywhere. All across the nation: Surgical sawblade vibration! Surgeons in motion! A WHOLE GENERATION w/ Soy + bisphenol A estrogen mimicker chemically NEUTERED explanation! Preparation H = magic potion, sawing peckers + balls off tossing them into the SF Bay Ocean...'
* FYI - 'cover' of Scott McKenzie "SanFranCisco" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I0vkKy504U/
APK
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Ralph pls go
Gotta love apk! He gets unidentifiable anonymous trolls like you all triggered by truth you don't like about yourselves.
Public radio buys a software company and puts in charge the former head of the largest for-profit radio company in the nation? That's weird, right?