AIR's Podcast

---

Welcome to the AIRpod (RSS feed), a podcast by AIR member Curtis Fox to other AIR members and anyone else who might be interested! To subscribe, enter the web-address below as a "New Feed" in your podcast software.

Or download MP3s directly from these links:
050802 Pitching On the Media
AIR's latest Podcast: (14.11) On the Media's co-host and editor explains what sort of pieces they are looking for from independent producers. If you want to pitch OTM, email senior producer Katya Rogers at krogers at WNYC dot org. Links to the pieces excerpted:
  Pulling Back the Curtain
  Fear and Loathing in the Forecast

050722 Summer AIRSPACE
This is the first ever podcast edition of AIRSPACE, AIR's quarterly journal about independents in radio. Listen to in-depth behind the scenes audio from the Summer 2005 edition of AIRSPACE. Featuring the work of Jones Franzel, Lena Eckhart-Erdheim, S. Spencer Scott, Celia La Luz, and Tamara Hopkins, it's all about youth produced radio. Read this issue of AIRSPACE while you listen.

050627 Independents & PRX
Jake Shapiro, executive director of the Public Radio Exchange, explains how it works and how much money independent radio producers have been making from the PRX digital clearinghouse. Also, some audio snippets from AIR members. Dave Barasoain's completed piece can be heard at http://wabe.org/radio/features/awa/ under the section on India.

050531 Whatcha Working On, Joe?
(14.41) Independent Joe Richman of Radio Diaries accounts for himself. Send your mp3s of tape that YOU are working with, 45 seconds or less, including your ID and intro, to: curtisfox at earthlink dot net, for a future AIRpod.

050517 Podcasting and Public Radio: Good, Bad or ?
(13.40) AIR's first Podcast: Phil Redo, VP of Operations and Strategy at WNYC in New York, thinks about how public radio can survive in the age of podcasting and satellite radio.

Podcasting is an easy new way to automatically download audio programs to your computer. You use free software to choose programs you like; the software checks the internet regularly and starts a download whenever it finds something new.

Here's what you'll need: a computer (PC or Mac), an internet connection, and (free) podcasting software. Follow the links on this page to the sites where you can get free podcast software (iPodder, jPodder and others). Install the software on your computer. Follow the directions to choose podcasts. The software will keep your favorites current and should transfer the downloaded podcasts to an audio player on your computer (iTunes, Windows Media player, etc). You can listen to your latest download on your computer -- or when you synch your MP3 player the latest podcasts will be transferred to it.

Helpful links:

Download iPodderX -- free podcasting software for the Mac

A podcast directory: http://www.ipodder.org/

Download iPodder -- free podcasting software

Download jPodder -- free podcasting software

More on podcasting -- from the Wikipedia

Curtis Fox's Bio

---

Curtis Fox is an independent producer living in Brooklyn, New York. Formerly a staff member for The Next Big Thing, where he produced features, essays, drama and comedy, he now files regularly for Studio 360 and is working on a documentary about Walt Whitman.