This year, the folks at Podcasting News are thankful to be spending the (U.S.) Thanksgiving day holed up in the Podcasting News “Test Kitchens” (right) with only the little podcasters (above) and a giant turkey to keep us company. Whereas many years, we are either entertaining our large extended family, or biding our time waiting […]

The Culinary Institute of America (the other CIA) has a podcast series, entitled, “Insight From The Inside.” The program gives listeners a glimpse inside the prestigious culinary college through the eyes and personal testimonials of its students. “Insight From The Inside” also includes interviews with some of the CIA’s celebrity chef alumni. The current episode […]

The Beatles’ second feature film, “Help!,” has just been re-released on DVD. To herald the event, “Monty Python” alumnus Michael Palin narrates a podcast series about the 1965 hit movie. The podcast mixes dialogue from the movie with Palin’s narration and bits of audio from commercials, songs, interviews with individual Beatles, supporting actors, and director […]

Wizzard Media has announced that the U.S. Navy has signed on for its first-ever podcast advertising campaign. The campaign will continue through the end of January. It encompasses 20 different shows in the Wizzard Media network, covering the categories of music, gaming and sports & recreation. To execute the buy, Wizzard was faced with its […]

The Guardian reports that the BBC is introducing music podcasts, featuring highlights from their radio programming and short music clips in “top 40” style format. Starting Saturday, November 17, the offerings will include Folk & Acoustic with Mike Harding from Radio 2, Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone from 6 Music and the Asian Network Chart. 1Xtra […]

We live with a bunch of adolescents (and adolescents at heart), who also happen to be big fans of anything to do with space and astronomy.¬† But mention the ice planet Uranus at the dinner table (and pronounce it “your-anus” or “urine-us” depending on which syllable you accent), and at least four people dissolve into […]

We, along with a lot of people in the podcasting community, were excited to hear recently that Microsoft had hired Rob Greenlee to be its Podcast Programming & Marketing Lead for the Microsoft Zune. Rob was doing Internet radio long before podcasting was created. Rob, along with his wife Dana Greenlee, hosted WebTalk Radio, an […]

The BBC’s Chris Vallance sent word about a programming experiment that they’ve introduced, iPM on BBC Radio 4. The show combines elements of podcasting and radio, and is based around a blog which lets users submit story ideas, comment on stories and offer input on stories in progress. It will start Saturday November 10th at […]

Podbean, which describes itself as a podcast social subscribing site, has introduced an embeddable multimedia podcast player that can be used to put your podcast on Facebook, MySpace and blogs. The free player supports both videos and audios. It’s designed so that you can embed the player once, and Podbean updates the player content whenever […]

Nick from the Gnatline podcast sent us a link to some photos of a custom podcasting table that he built. The setup has spots at the table for multiple hosts, a central mixing area, a swivel-mount computer monitor and even a place below the table for rack-mounted audio gear. While Nick has obviously put a […]