Turning Podcasts into PodCASH

Newstalk 106-108 in Dublin, Ireland does a ton of on-demand broadcasting.  Its otherwise staid website is packed with audio — as every talk radio site should be.  Now the station is actually  making money on podcasting.  It recently sold custom-created podcasts to sponsors Heineken and Ford, and is hot on the trail of more download deals.
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If You can’t Say Something Nice, Better Stay off Irish Talk Radio

American broadcasters justifiably complain and fret about the FCC’s content regulation. But here’s a reminder that it could be worse.  A lot worse. Dublin-based  Newstalk 106-108 was recently censured by Ireland’s version of the FCC because morning co-host Claire Byrne called spinster singing sensation Susan Boyle “a freak” and “not right in the head.”   [...]