The Lyric Opera of Chicago has introduced a new podcast series, Backstage at Lyric. The audio programs will feature interviews with the singers, conductors and creative team members behind the productions in Lyric Opera’s 2007-08 season. The debut episode, hosted by staff dramaturg Roger Pines, presents a conversation with soprano Elizabeth Futral and tenor Joseph […]

CBS has announced that it will make 60 Minutes available as a free audio podcast on iTunes. CBS has previously made excerpts available as a podcast, but the move will mark the first time the show will be able to be downloaded in its entirety. “60 Minutes is perfect for this kind of audio podcasting. […]

Podcasters Paul Colligan and Alex Mendossian have announced PremiumCast, a new service that lets you manage, deliver and sell podcasts and video podcasts. The service lets you create custom messages, track subscriber usage, monetize podcasts and publish both public and private podcasts. Three levels of service are available: Free, Professional ($37/month) & Viral ($67/month). The […]

The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) plans to hold its first in-person meeting at the Podcasting & New Media Expo in Ontario, CA. The meeting will be held at 7:30 a.m. PDT on Friday, September 28, 2007 in Ballroom A. The meeting is open to any expo attendee. Agenda items include: the goals of the […]

NBC has announced a new service, NBC Direct, which will let you download and view NBC’s primetime and late-night programming to Windows PCs to watch for up to a week after the shows are broadcast. The service, which will begin beta testing in October, promises to let you download full-length episodes of Heroes, The Office, […]

GCap Media, operators of radio stations such as Capital Radio, Xfm and Classic FM recently announced that it has joined UK Podcasters Association. This move is seen as a big step toward radio industry integration with digital and online media. GCap is the first radio/media company to join the UKPA since the association’s creation in […]

Some forty years after it first revolutionized children’s television programming, Sesame Workshop (the makers of public tv’s Sesame Street) has announced the launch of a video podcast series. The short weekly episodes focus on a single “word on the street” (literally, a word chalked onto blacktop). The recent podcast about squid featured grown-ups and children […]

Podcast¬†hosting provider¬†Wizzard Software¬†announced today a partnership with Nielsen//NetRatings to offer certified download data. According to Wizzard, certified download numbers will bring “a new level of accountability to podcast ad sales.” “Our adoption of the Nielsen//NetRatings solution….will elevate our participating publishers‚Äô podcasts to an entirely new level of consideration by advertisers and agencies as a viable, […]

¬† The popular podcasting tool The Levelator has been updated and has a new home¬†at The Conversations Network. The Levelator is a free, multi-platform tool that automatically optimizes the levels within audiofiles to even out the volumes of multiple speakers and to adjust the overall volume to a consistent standard. The changes in the latest […]

Here’s a roundup of portable media news for Saturday, Sept. 15th: TorrentFreak has an expos√© on Media Defender, publishing internal emails that appear to show how the company created a website and leaked copyrighted content to entrap people into infringement. According to TorrentFreak, “The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading […]