Podcasting hits PrimeTime
Blog Critics have published a
good article on how the major Television Networks are dealing with Podcasting and how they will be implementing them in the future.
This will be a telling year for the Podcasting world... Television has the power to truly bring Podcasting into the main stream, and tying the medium in with shows that have existing fan bases may well do more for PodCasting than anything up until this point... and that is saying a lot!
What is your opining?
PodCastEmpire@gmail.com
Verizon to Sponser ESPN Podcasts
Verizon has agreed to sponser two daily podcasts created by ESPN for a six-week deal.
The Podcasts will be made available for free on
ESPN.com.
The Podcasts will feature new daily content from ESPN radio and their website and will contain two 15 second Verizon commercials per episode.
"Podcasts represent a new opportunity for ESPN to demonstrate its leadership in serving sports fans. Our prodcast listeners are passionate and on the leading edge of technology. They are an attractive audience for advertisers and marketers."
- John Kosner, senior vp and general manager of ESPN New Media.
Tell us what you think:
podcastempire@gmail.com
Did Chris McIntyre Sell Out PodCast Alley ?
Here is another "You almost heard it here first"....
According to
Mac World UK PodCast Alley was sold to PodShow.
Podshow is one of the brainchild companies of
Adam Curry, a former VJ for MTV, but best know to podcast enthusiasts as the host of
Daily Source Code. Adam started the company with Ron Bloom.
Adam Curry is a podcast pioneer and is one of the people responsible for the progress that podcasting has seen in the past year...
What does this mean?
Well... PodCast Alley, one of the best FREE online portals/directories for Podcasts on the Internet, has been sold for an as yet undisclosed figure (PodShow recently recieved just shy of 9 million dollars in capital venture) to a company that was built to commercialize podcasting.
Not that we completely disagree with some commercialization. There are plenty of great podcasts out there and we think that their creators should be making some money for what they do...
We are just not sure how we feel about this takeover yet... We have our fingers crossed that PodShow will keep to the spirit of what PodCast Alley was all about and continue offering a good PodCasting resource!
Maybe they can even do something about how slow PodCast Alley has been loading lately...
Tell us what you think...
podcastempire@gmail.comMore Info:
Marshall's Web Tool Blog
The Empire Expands: Podshow Starts Acquisitions!We'll see how well they scale up to a large number of users. They have boatloads of money, but if money was all it took, then Technorati would load in a hurry.
PaidContent.org
PodShow Acquires Podcast AlleyAdam Curry and Ron Bloom's PodShow has made its first acquisition -- and it's an acq-hire: podcast directory Podcast Alley and founder Chris McIntyre. No terms but the deal is worth enough to get McIntyre to move from Nashville...Tracked: September 6, 2005 05:49 PM
Rexblog
Nashville-based Podcast Alley acqhiredNashville's PodCast Alley acqhired: According to SiliconBeat , Nashville-based Podcast Alley and its founder, Chris McIntyre, have been acq-hired by Adam Curry and Ron Bloom's PodShow , its first acquisition since receiving $8.5 million in first round VC Tracked: September 6, 2005 06:54 PM
Perdue U. To Podcast Lectures!
Kudos go out to
Perdue University!
This year they will be podcasting the lectures for different classes.
This is an excellent way to use this medium and we applaud all of the Professors who agreed to participate!
Everything You Need to Know About Gaming... Right on Your iPod!
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It looks like
PC Gamer (the self-touted: World's best selling PC Games Magazine) has jumped into the Podcasting Pool recently!
If you are into PC Games... and you are into downloading/listening to Podcasts... Well, this post is for you!
Check our
PC Gamer's Blog & Podcast here.
There are only 2 posts there right now, so this is ground floor Podcasting!
Don't say we never gave you anything...
Only interesting podcast so far (and it is interesting) is an interview with Chris Taylor, the founder of
Gas Powered Games; creators of the great Dungeon Siege Games!
(Yes... We are gamers as well as Podcast aficionados!)
Can't get enough Court action with Judge Judy?
Just when you were thinking that you couldn't get enough daytime television-reallife court action, along comes Fidelis.
Fidelis has announced plans to podcast the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge John Roberts. This will be the first ever legal podcast of this nature and Fidelis plans to provide ongoing coverage of Judge John Roberts' hearings.
If you are a legal hound and would like to tune into some real-life trials, check out the
Fidelis podcast page site.
Who is Fidelis you ask?
From their website:"Fidelis is a Catholic-based family of organizations that has been founded to defend and promote the time-honored values of life, faith and family throughout America. These three issues represent the most important questions of our time."
