The Boston Symphony Orchestra has launched its BSO Online Podcast, now available on the orchestra’s website and as a podcast.The podcast focuses on the BSO’s two-year Beethoven-Schoenberg project ‚Äî with audio and video clips that include video documentaries about the composers’ lives and historical contexts, plus overviews and analysis of the music to be performed […]

American Public Media, the nation’s second largest producer and distributor of public radio programs, has announded that it is expanding its podcast offerings. Beginning October 17, American Public Media is making the following full programs available as podcasts: Marketplace, Marketplace Money, Word for Word and American RadioWorks documentaries. The Splendid Table will be offered as […]

Over 40 podcasting seminars are scheduled for the International Podcasting Expo, an online expo being held October 20-22. Anyone with an Internet connection can attend, and participants may download all event recordings. Keynote speakers include Elisabeth Lewin of Podcasting News, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress, Andy Wibbels of BlogWild. Other speakers include Eric Olson of Feedburner, […]

AEC Daily has introduced a series of educational podcasts, the AEC Daily Education podcast, aimed at the architecture, engineering and construction industry. The first episode looks at The Greening of White Goods (MP3). The podcast is an example of a sponsored corporate podcast. The podcast is part of the Whirlpool course, The Greening of ‘White […]

On Monday, Chicago Public Radio will introduce a This American Life podcast. Starting Monday, October 16, each show will be available to podcast subscribers on the Monday following its national broadcast. After seven days, the shows wil migrate to the program’s online archives. The price for downloads of these archived shows is $0.95 cents per […]

Google announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently “to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.” The acquisition is likely to lead to rapid changes at YouTube. Google’s announcement places emphasis on the legal distribution of professionally produced content. […]

Motor Trend has announced the launch of a new podcast, Motor Trend Radio. The four-hour weekly radio show is archived and available in its entirety and commercial-freeas a podcast, starting with broadcasts from June 2006. Additionally, a monthly 30-minute ‚ÄúBest of‚Äù podcast recapping the highlights of the month‚Äôs finest radio moments will be available on […]

Wizzard Software has announced that they have entered into a licensing agreement with Voice Factory International to add thousands of hours of audiobooks to the Switchpod Network. Switchpod.com will offer this extensive collection of classic books for digital download in podcast format at absolutely no cost to the consumer.‚ÄúAdding digital books to the Switchpod Network […]

PodShow has officially announced that the company has raised a second round of venture funding from new and original investors, totaling $15M. The Company has been working to provide broader and more reliable distribution on the Internet while initiating plans to move its content into the home and across all mobile devices. ‚ÄúThis new investment […]

Podshow, the podcasting network co-founded by former MTV VJ Adam Curry, shown right with cross-dressing lesbian podcaster Madge Weinstein, is holding a podcasting Un-Expo in Ontario, California, at the same time as the Podcasting and Portable Media Expo. The company’s Talent and Marketing team is spending two days holding an Undition, for podcasters interested in […]