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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A New Category for Talk Radio Brokered Programming

Has your sales department talked to labor unions while prospecting for paid programs?  Might be worth a meeting or two.  Sure, unions don’t have as much money as they used to — but who does?

Oprah Names Radio an “Affordable Pleasure”

Well, actually it was novelist Caitlin Macy, writing in the current issue of  Oprah’s O magazine.  Macy tells of a life-long love affair with all types of radio programming, which has cost her almost nothing:   “Radio is not only wildly cheap, it’s durably so: The machine I listen to now is not remarkably different from [...]