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Podcasts Boost Radio Audiences, Says UK Industry Researcher
All of the RAJAR-commissioned data reported in this Guardian article is pretty good news for the humble podcast, with one exception: “Although podcasts were popular with listeners, media organisations have found difficulty turning them into significant moneyspinners”.
Agreed - media organisations, with top-down attitudes and old-media thinking continue to invest in podcasting as part of their [...]
Changes at Talking Voices
We’re pleased to be able to make several announcements at once regarding the future of the company.
Brian Greene and Sinéad Murnane from doop in Dublin, have been making a great success of Talking Voices Ireland. Both join the board of Directors.
Michael Franklin, formerly of TalkSPORT and The Wireless Group joins the board as Financial Director [...]
Rob da Bank in the Independent
Nice article in today’s Independent newspaper about Rob da Bank and the Sunday Best Podcast.
Radio Academy Podcast: Future of Radio 2
Continuation of the Radio Academy event, January 15th 2007, including questions from the floor.
Radio Academy Podcast: Future of Radio
On 15th January in London, UK, Radio Academy Director Trevor Dann hosted a seminal event about podcasting.
The panel included Nathalie Schwarz from Channel 4, Matt Wells, Head of Audio from Guardian Unlimited, Sarah Prag from the BBC, and noted independent radio / podcast producers Hermeet Chadha and Karen Pearson. The session covered many issues around [...]
Talking Voices Video Showreel
We have a new video showreel online, demonstrating our online video production work. Online video is being commissioned much more frequently these days than when we first started Talking Voices. As 2008 begins, audio podcast production remains the majority of our production work. We expect to be producing more genuinely new media formats including video, [...]
Rob da Bank’s Sunday Best Podcast is Critic’s Choice for the Independent
Rob da Bank’s Sunday Best Podcast appeared as Critic’s Choice in yesterday’s Independent newspaper.
Rob’s twice-monthly, 30 minute podcast is described as ‘an insight into the eclectic world of Rob da Bank, the Radio 1 DJ and Sunday Best supremo’. Catch up on the Bestival with live tracks from XX Teens, Candie Payne [...]
UKPA and GCap PR
GCap Media, the name behind Capital Radio, Classic FM, and the XFM Networks, has become the first ‘traditional’ UK broadcaster to join the UK Podcasters Association (UKPA). Started in April 2006, the UKPA is a non-profit organisation set up to protect both members’ rights and promote podcasting.
UKPA Chairman Dean Whitbread pointed out that “this is [...]
BBC Pods and Blogs
Good to see that the pre-eminent radio magazine programme covering social media, BBC Radio 5 Live’s Pods and Blogs, has finally gained its own podcast - and extra-pleased that the editors used the introduction provided by Talking Voices’ Dean Whitbread, who is credited BBC-style in his role as member of the UK Podcasters Association.
Download / [...]
The Cambridge Radio Festival
Talking Voices’ Dean Whitbread, BBC’s Nick Reynolds and Wiggly Wigglers’ Heather Gorringe [left to right] at the Cambridge Radio Festival earlier today, where Dean, Heather and Jemima Kiss from The Guardian newspaper, took part in a session on podcasting, hosted by Rory Cellan-Jones. Picture is by Rory and appears in his Facebook series from the [...]
