Wave goodbye to radio

[theFerf]

Podcasting is spreading faster than you can say ‘geek’ : Who needs airwaves? Tim Germer holds his Apple iPod, the inspiration for a new kind of audio program that listeners download from Web sites onto their portable devices. Germer is the creator of “Northwest Noise” — part music, part news, all Oregon.

nice little article about podcasting and podcasters from Oregon:
http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=27858

[PBCliberal]

Its even more insidious than just winds of change. Radio basically set podcasting up to compete with it, by cutting overhead by decimating local live radio stations in favor of imported, time-shifted content produced by a few people in centralized production centers. Its been using a podcasting-style distribution medium as its backbone for years now. Podcasting just eliminates the middleman and gives the listener a broader range of choices.

[DaveMiller]

It's funny, the local radio here seems oblivious to podcasting and it's possible effect on their medium.

Podcasting has been eating up much time on the local AM talk station (of which I formerly had a show) because our company was hired by the city to facilitate a podcast for the mayor. Every comment out of the two hosts is that "anyone can podcast and therefore the quality you receive is not going to be the same that you are getting right now".

They just look at it as a bunch of geeks wanting to be broadcasters. Let me just say this, I listen to almost everything once that pops up at audio.weblogs.com, as a professional broadcaster, I hear a number of shows that are as good, if not better than what is on the local station here, including my former collegues.

They will be forced to put their shows up for podcasts. On that day, I will be the first in line to call them hypocrites.