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The following AIR members completed a brief questionnaire that was circulated to the membership in September (2005). We were interested in finding out who among us is podcasting and what they know about their listenership. Twenty-eight members responded to the survey.
The listing is organized alphabetically by producer surname: (Echoes, NPR, PRX, Transom and Weekend America excepted.) Included in each listing is a contact e-mail address, an RSS, the name of the podcast, a brief description of the content, and in some instances comments on listenership.
Claes Andreasson
claes@amberpinestudios.com
RSS: http://www.amberpinestudios.com/wimwenders.xml
Podcast name: Wim Wenders
Description: I wanted to learn about the technology, so I posted a story with German director Wim Wenders as a podcast. Apart from just posting it on my web site, I also submitted it to iTunes.
Listenership: Since its publication in early August, the Wim Wender's podcast has been downloaded 1,100+ times. Whether people actually listened, I don't know.
Elinoar Astrinsky
eastrinsky@maryknoll.org
RSS: http://www.voicesofourworld.org/downloads/vow_feed.xml
Podcast name: Voices of Our World
Description: "Voices of Our World" is an award-winning public affairs program featuring stories of social justice that are rarely heard in media. We cover many issues, including: human rights, peace, global economics, the environment, and the plight of under represented people around the world. The 28-minute program features long format interviews.
Sharon Basco
bascokoch@earthlink.net
RSS: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/rss
Podcast name: Spectrum Radio: The Broadcast Edition of "IEEE Spectrum Magazine"
Description: "Spectrum Radio" is the broadcast edition of "IEEE Spectrum Magazine." For 40 years, the magazine has been the international gold standard technology source for the most sophisticated tech audience in the world. Spectrum Radio is hosted by the magazine's Editor-in-Chief, Susan Hassler, and uses the magazine's excellent New York- based staff for on-air reports, features, documentaries, and commentaries.
Joe Bevilacqua
joebev@waterlogg.com
Podcast name: Comedy-o-Rama Hour
Description: We do it all! Hour-long weekly "COMEDY-O-RAMA," 2-minute daily "THE OPEN DOOR," NPR segments, two-hour specials, documentaries! We will be podcasting within the next month!
Listenership: Comedy-o-Rama is consistently in the Top 20 shows on XM!
Blunt Youth Radio Project
curio@kerryseed.org, cholman@usm.maine.edu
RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BluntPodcast
Podcast name: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Description: Blunt Youth Radio Project is "youth empowerment through direct media access". On the air since 1994, nationally award-winning Blunt Youth Radio is a youth-produced public affairs talk show. This podcast features some of our best work.
Listenership: Averaging 3 subscribers per day.
Chris Frear Butterfield
info@preciousvoices.co.uk
RSS: http://ukpods.libsyn.com/rss
Podcast name: This is England
Description: "This is England" is a series of interviews with real people around England. Sit back and listen as Liz Fawden takes you to meet people who have unusual jobs or hobbies in England.
Matthew Cowley
matt@radiosoundstage.com
1. RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/offramp
Podcast name: Offramp
Description: Improvised comedy, music, and oddities from the award-winning group.
2. RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/sixtysecondradiohour
Podcast name: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
Description: Short vignettes, comedy and otherwise.
Stasia DeMarco
stasia35@comcast.net
RSS: http://www.itunes.com/DTDs/Podcast-1.0.dtd
Podcast name: Culture Shock
Description: Feature Reports on some of the oldest cultural institutions in Philadelphia from the arts to the sciences.
ECHOES
jefft@echoes.org
RSS: http://echoes.org/podcasts/feed
Podcast name: The Echoes Podcast
Description: "The Echoes Podcast" features an interview excerpted from the Echoes radio program. These are sound rich productions that include words and music from the artists that created the music played on Echoes. This podcast is updated weekly, and is intended to draw listeners to the Echoes broadcast and online streaming audio service.
Sarah Elzas
toucanradio@yahoo.com
RSS: http://www.toucanradio.org/toucanpodcast.rss
Podcast name: Toucanradio.org Podcast
Description: The Toucanradio.org podcast features radio pieces published as they are produced by Sarah Elzas and her collaborators. Pieces span a variety of topics, from the arts, to music to politics; profiles, documentaries, reports and features...
Listenership: I track web stats in general on my site, and I see regular IP addresses returning to the podcast RSS page, which indicates to me that they are subscribed to the podcast. I have about 50 of these "subscribers", which for me is a big audience, given that it is not a regular podcast, and it is mostly people interested in my work.
Kitty Felde
kfelde@kpcc.org
Podcast name: Talk of the City
Description: Our daily one hour show is available 24/7 via the website for podcasting fans. "Talk of the City" covers local, international, and national news, as well as many art-oriented segments.
P.W. Fenton
pfenton@tampabay.rr.com
RSS: http://digitalflotsam.org/rss.xml
Podcast name: Digital Flotsam
Description: Very difficult to describe. Sometimes an audio variety show... sometimes a heartfelt story... sometimes a collection of bits with a theme. Always entertaining.
Listenership: I appear to have around ten thousand subscribers to the RSS feed. I have been in and out of the iTunes "Top 100" several times.
Ira Flatow
iflatow@iraflatow.com
RSS: http://www.sciencefriday/audio/scifriaudio.xml
Podcast name: Science Friday
Description: Segments from the weekly NPR science and technology news program Science Friday, plus other science related podcasts from independent producers and other radio programming. We seek to become a central portal for science and technology audio podcasts and welcome contributors.
Listenership: We frequently reach 30,000 or more downloads per podcast and have been ranked in the top ten on the Apple web pages, going as high as being ranked #4 of all Ppodcasts.
Barrett Golding/Hearing Voices
bg@hearingvoices.com
RSS: http://www.hearingvoices.com/cast/hvrss.xml
Podcast name: Hearing Voices
Description: Adventurous Audio: Sound-Portraits, slam poets, radio docs and vox pop. A new hour is released every month.
Listenership: Web-logs (site usage analysis tools) measure approx. 1000 downloads/week.
Wolfgang Harrer
RSS: http://modul.germandream.zdf.de/RSS
Podcast name: Dream Podcast
Description: For Europe's largest network, ZDF Germany, Alysa Selene, and Wolfgang Harrer asked 30 international leaders and artists about their hopes and dreams for Germany's future. Participants include Wangari Maathai, Garry Kasparov, Wei Jingsheng, Craig Venter, Eddie Izzard, Paulo Coelho, Mary Robinson and more.
For English originals:
http://modul.germandream.zdf.de
Listenership: From September 1st to the10th, Akamai has already measured 12,000 downloads. Our podcast is frequently among the Top 20 in iTunes-Germany.
Leda Hartman
ledahart@mindspring.com
RSS: http://worldvision.sitestream.com/rss/wvus_radio.xml
Podcast name: The World Vision Report
Description: Produced by World Vision Radio, "The World Vision Report" is a weekend news magazine and daily feature show that captures the human drama behind global issues and events affecting the world's poorest children and families. Hosted by Peggy Wehmeyer, former ABC World News Tonight correspondent, the "World Vision Report" is currently airing on Christian radio stations in the United States.
Janelle Haskell
jhaskell@aarp.org
Podcast name: Prime Time Radio; Prime Time Focus; Movies For Grownups;
Segunda Juventud en la Radio
Larry Josephson
larry@bobandray.com
1. RSS: http://www.onlyinamerica.info/rss.xml
Podcast name: Only In America: Celebrating 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience
Description: A series of radio programs celebrating 350 Years of the American Jewish Experience. Recent casts include a holocaust memorial featuring Elie Wiesel, an interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and a conversation with Jewish philanthropist Michael Steinhardt.
2. RSS: http://www.whatisajew.org/wij.xml
Podcast name: What is Judaism? A Conversation Between Rabbi Ismar Schorsch and Larry Josephson
Description: Larry Josephson, a secular Jew who now wants to know more about the religion of his grandparents, asks Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, to explain the meaning of the Jewish holidays. These conversations along with their musical interludes are a free-flowing exploration of the repertoire of Jewish festivals. As such, they serve as an informal introduction to Judaism itself.
Tamara Keith
tamara@bsideradio.org
RSS: http://www.bside-radio.org/podcast/podcast.xml
Podcast name: B-Side
Description: Hosted by Andrea Seabrook, "B-Side" is a monthly program that brings listeners stories with a different spin. We do more than scratch the surface. We have a terrestrial presence as well as the podcast.
Tod Maffin
tod@todmaffin.com
RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/howtodostuff
Podcast name: How to Do Stuff
Description: Extraordinary wisdom from ordinary people.
NPR
jkernis@npr.org
Podcast name: NPR Podcasting
Description: Partnership with NPR Member stations, PRI, APM, offering more than 130 podcasts. (See Kerry Seeds article on this project.)
Marion Owen
marion@ptialaska.net
RSS: http://garden.blogware.com/blog/UpBeetGardenerPodcasts/
Podcast name: UpBeet Gardener Podcasts
Description: To share with listeners the many ways we are energized, dressed, nourished, healed, soothed and charmed by plants. Without them, we simply wouldn't be.
PRX
Jake Shapiro
jake@prx.org
RSS: http://about.prx.org/podcast/
We also have our Pubcatcher project:
RSS: http://www.pubcatcher.org
Steve Sergeant
stevesgt@effable.com
RSS: http://www.wildebeat.net/index.cgi/shows/?flav=rss
Podcast name: The WildeBeat
Description: "The audio journal about getting into the wilderness." Features to help you explore our remaining wild places. Listen if you value nature, and if you enjoy hiking, backpacking, horseback riding, rafting, kayaking, canoeing, climbing, skiing, or snowshoeing. Get enthused about exploring new places, and learn safe and responsible outdoors skills.
Shea Shackelford
sheashackelford@mac.com
RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/IndiefeedBigshed
Podcast name: Big Shed - Audio Documentaries at IndieFeed.com
Description: Big Shed (www.BigShed.org)) is a showcase for independently produced audio documentaries, audio art, found sound, oral histories, etc. At the heart of Big Shed is a giddy desire to connect listeners with good voices, good stories, and good sound production.
Transom.org
barlow@transom.org
RSS: http://podcast.transom.org/index.xml
Podcast name: Transom Podcast
Description: Transom Podcast is a showcase and workshop for new public radio.
Weekend America
jberman@marketplace.org
RSS: http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/rss/podcast/podcast.xml
Podcast name: Weekend America
Description: "Weekend America" is a two-hour public radio program designed to fit the weekend state of mind. Barbara Bogaev and Bill Radke host the program each week from Los Angeles, inviting listeners to a lively conversation about the issues of the week, the arts, and public affairs. "Weekend America" is produced by American Public Media.
Aaron Ximm
aaron.ximm@gmail.com
RSS: http://www.quietamerican.org/vacation.xml
Podcast name: One-minute Vacations
Description: Unedited, one-minute field recordings documenting somewhere, somewhen. One minute to be somewhere else. One minute to be someone else.
Listenership: I would guess around 20-35 GB/mo in downloads for this project (based on total monthly d/l of 30-50 GB trending upward), with each weekly update being around 1.5 MB, which yields about 12,000 downloads a month ballpark.
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