Dan1. Owning and running a podcast is a lot cheaper
Radio stations all over the world have forked out millions of dollars for one license that will allow them to broadcast to a certain area. Even then after they’ve paid the big bucks they have pretty severe limitations about broadcasting outside of their transmission zone.
Whereas making a podcasting is the exact opposite. It’s pretty much free to do (outside of basic equipment set up costs) and you can broadcast to the world! There are currently over 160 million registered ITunes accounts. 160 million! That number is 6 or 7 times the amount of people in some of the biggest cities on the planet. Whoa that is one heck of a potential listening audience! [click to continue…]
Dan As a Radio DJ, once a week I sit down with my Program Director for 1 hour or so (she’s on the right :)). Together we listen to a recording of one of my shows. This is called “airchecking”.
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Dan As I’ve been researching my upcoming podcasting report I’ve discovered two types of podcasters, those who:
- Record their podcast then put it through post production
- Those who mix their podcast ‘live’ .
Option 1 is the process of recording the main voice / voices of your podcast and then adding all the music beds, openers, closers later in post production.
Option 2 is the process of recording your podcast and mixing (or panelling) in music beds, intro’s and other audio AS you are recording. This is how a Radio DJ would normally present their show.
Now I’ve heard plenty of arguments supporting both styles of recording, but I want to tell you which way I like best and why. [click to continue…]
Dan Over the last few months, I’ve watched the Wikileaks saga unfold.
Fronted by no nonsense Aussie Julian Assange, Wikileaks has leaked highly classified and sensitive government information from all over the world. It’s had politicians and even the most hardened Army Generals quaking in their boots.
I’ve had plenty of conversations about Wikileaks with friends and listeners of my radio show. To begin with my opinion was pretty black and white, surely there’s nothing good about leaking sensitive information that could start wars and damage important diplomatic relationships?
Well you wouldn’t think so, but millions of people support Wikileaks and want to make sure that they can continue leaking. So the question is why?
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