This week’s biggest podcasting news is that WFMU has found a suitable personality to take over The Best Show’s soon-to-be-vacant timeslot, but there’s more for the podcast enthusiast and producer alike. Scharpling Passes the Best Torch to Hill It’s a changing of the guard at New Jersey’s freeform WFMU. Last month Best Show host Tom […]
Podcasters looking to fund their productions are looking to a variety of methods to raise money. As I discussed Tuesday, many podcasts are taking on advertisers. Another tact gaining prominence is crowd-funding. Podcaster Roman Mars turned heads last year when his Kickstarter raised more than $170,000–more than 4 times his goal–to fund season three of […]
The business and sustainability of podcasting seems to be gaining momentum in the zeitgeist. The latest entry is an article in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal that laments in its headline, “So Many Podcasts, So Little Profit.” Writer Jo Piazza says “podcasts today are what underground zines were in the ’90s,” which is a sentiment […]
Podcasting is a fertile new landscape in radio and audio media, which is why we’ve covered it here at Radio Survivor. Starting with this post we’re stepping up our coverage. I’ll be writing about podcasting every Wednesday for our new Podcast Survivor feature. Lucky for me, this first week the web has already been pretty […]
Tom Scharpling announced on his program Tuesday that he is ending The Best Show on WFMU, broadcasting its final episode on December 17. Over the course of 13 years The Best Show has grown for itself a sizable and loyal nationwide audience that enjoys the host’s unique mix of on-air rants, real listener calls and […]
Here at Radio Survivor we firmly believe that podcasts are a form of radio, and for many listeners that’s how they hear their favorite broadcast shows, from This American Life to Elvis Duran. Podcasting also was a prime topic at this year’s WFMU RadioVision festival, held this past Saturday, October 19 in New York City. […]
The second annual Los Angeles Podcast Festival happens this weekend, Oct. 4 – 6. Since L.A. seems to be home to the greatest density of well-known comedy podcasters, that is also the general emphasis of the festival, featuring appearances from comedian hosts like Marc Maron, Doug Benson, Greg Fitzsimmons and Jimmy Pardo. The festival will […]
Here are more stories that we don’t want you to miss, especially some more lighthearted pieces about ambulances overriding car radios and comic book podcasts. So we we’re going to compile them in our end-of-the-week round-up. Last fall Microsoft launched the ad-supported Xbox Music streaming service on its Xbox 360 game console, Windows 8 and […]
The man behind the alleged podcasting patent, James Logan, took on the geeky masses at the tech website Slashdot with a Q&A session on Monday. Given the average Slashdotter’s objection to patent trolling, one user asked Logan why he would “volunteer to step into the lion’s den?” Logan answered, “sometimes going into the ‘lion’s den’ […]
Here’s a few items about podcasting that have crossed the transom in the past week or so that should be of interest to the Podcast Survivor: PopMatters music reviews editor Colin McGuire sees fit to launch a piece In Defense Of… Podcasting. McGuire says he loves podcasts so much that he has “two iPods: one […]
