“Clear Channel Communications Inc. is putting free recordings of programming from dozens of its stations on the Internet for downloading. Through its program syndication unit, it is also selling subscriptions to listeners who want to download archived talk shows from Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others,” Frank Barnako reports for MarketWatch. “‘If we take your best pieces of programming, brand them and put them out there, we’re going to grow our audience,’ Evan Harrison, Clear Channel’s head of online music and radio, told the Wall Street Journal.”
Barnako reports, “The popularity of audio files for download is growing. Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes Music Store now includes 15,000 free shows, called podcasts. Visitors have subscribed to more than 7 million, the Journal reported.”
Full article here.
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Apple iTunes podcast subscriptions top one million in first two days – June 30, 2005
Analyst: iTunes 4.9 helps Apple by bringing podcasting to the masses – June 28, 2005
Apple releases iTunes 4.9 for Mac and Windows with podcasting features – June 28, 2005
If they think they will grow their audience by having the audience listen to the idiots like Limbaugh and others, then either they are idiots (they are), or they think their listeners are idiots (ok, yeah, they are too), and they think everyone else in the US is an idiot… ummm… ok, yeah, I guess this will work.
There’s plenty of hats out there…try a few on, you might find some
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GREAT fits!
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TWIT
The Best Podcast…..
If Apple doesn’t hold the vision of our electronics future, I’d like to know who does.
Just listened to TWIT for the first time. This is much better than buying content/magazines from Audible.com
G4 had no business cancelling shows with Leo Laporte on them. Bunch of morons. The former SreenSavers army is everywhere.
MW: Best
Anyone remember Johnny Bench and TWIB?
MW = “Old” as in, I must be old if I am referencing TWIB!
An alternate title would be: Paul Thurrott wrong. Again.
>If they think they will grow their audience by having the audience listen to the idiots like Limbaugh and others, then either they are idiots (they are), or they think their listeners are idiots (ok, yeah, they are too), and they think everyone else in the US is an idiot… ummm… ok, yeah, I guess this will work.>
Especially when 20 million get Rush for free.
Satellite radio is like debit cards—one of the biggest scams ever.
Figure it out—-
Satellite Radio—You pay.
I have over 4000 tunes on my iPod which plugs into my car radio. Why would I pay for radio?
Credit cards—-I have 4 credit cards from the same company, Each one pays me $300 per year back. I use them in rotation every 4 months. I charge everything and I use their money for a month and NEVER pay any interest. Plus I get $1200 back every year.
Debit cards—-The money is taken out of your bank account immediately so you get NO interest. Duh!
Let me get this straight. They are make free shows available for download if you pay for a subscription? Where do I sign up?
Do they think we are all idiots? How did the entertainment industry become so stupid?