For pretty much as long as there have been podcasts, there have been people trying to put them on the radio. As far back as 2005 CBS Radio transformed KYCY into “K-You Radio” — which broadcast podcast episodes around the clock until it was shuttered in 2007 — and as recently as last year iHeartRadio […]

Pretty much every night, I take a train journey north along the coast of Norway. As a chronically bad sleeper, I’ve tried a lot of different things to make it easier for me to drop off. Some were a disaster — turns out, pillow sprays make me sneeze — but eventually I worked out, as many […]

Sony Music Entertainment has announced another podcasting venture today, this time in the shape of a partnership with UK audio company Somethin’ Else. This continues the recent run of Sony investments in audio — previous examples include Jonathan Hirsch’s Neon Hum Media, Adam Davidson-Laura Mayer’s ThreeUncannyFour and Renay Richardson’s Broccoli Content. Somethin’ Else is a […]

This weekend, I went to the PodUK convention in Birmingham. I attended, and wrote about, the inaugural version of this event last year, and my experiences on Saturday were largely similar, in that I found it to be a really warm and inclusive event rooted in the podcast fan experience, a far cry from other […]

Things have really hotted up on the BBC beat since I wrote my overview of the public broadcaster’s predicament in last Tuesday’s newsletter. I laid out, in some detail, the ramifications of the different updates in Friday’s Hot Pod Insider, in brief: the BBC is cutting 450 jobs from its news division in order to […]

In 2022, the BBC will mark the centenary of its founding. Although it didn’t actually become a public service corporation until 1926, I’m fairly certain there will be plenty of upbeat programming released to commemorate its historic beginning. People who love the BBC will get teary and nostalgic, those who love to bash it will […]