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Podcast.com launches corporate podcast channels

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Podcast.com is now providing an opportunity for companies to get their own Corporate Podcast Channel to provide businesses a way to aggregate the growing number of corporate podcasts that provide branding, awareness and educational experiences to customers and prospects of corporations. Additionally, the company announced its first Corporate Podcast Channel customer as PriceWaterhouseCoopers. The PWC Corporate Podcast Channel can be found at pwc.podcast.com.

A Corporate Channel is a dedicated channel on Podcast.com that allows businesses to leverage the built-in Podcast.com search engine optimization and gain access to the rapidly growing base of podcast consuming visitors to Podcast.com. Podcast.com Corporate Podcast Channels also provide companies with access to distribution of their content to hundreds of millions of Internet-connected devices including cell phones, portable Wifi devices and Internet radios. The combination is an unsurpassed “hyper-distribution” of the company’s content. Corporate Podcast Channels on Podcast.com also provide an opportunity to take many discreet corporate podcasts and provide one central aggregated portal to maximize company branding and educational efforts.

Originally posted on April 20, 2008 @ 10:04 pm

Chumby offers The New York Times podcasts and more

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chumby.pngWake up with reporter James Barron reading you the front page of The New York Times as Chumby Network offers a large selection of The New York Times podcasts and photos, as well as customized widgets for the newspaper’s coverage of business, sports, culture, fashion, world news, technology, politics and other top stories.

Enhancements to the Chumby network include:

  • New York Times podcasts that offer the latest news in the world of music, books, politics, health and science, among other topics; podcasts can be set as an alarm each morning or played back throughout the day.
  • The New York Times’s news in pictures widget continuously updated with photos illustrating breaking news from around the world.
  • Eight additional widgets designed specifically for Times content that showcase articles in specific topic areas such as top stories, culture, business, fashion, world news, sports, technology and politics. Each topic widget will contain photos, headlines and full stories, providing users with the capability to e-mail the articles directly from their chumby device.

Originally posted on April 17, 2008 @ 10:28 pm

Podcast.com debuts Flipping Channels monthly podcast

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podcast.pngPodcast.com, the podcast portal, announced the debut of its twice-monthly podcast called Flipping Channels. Produced by Podcast.com, Flipping Channels is an audio program that samples a range of podcasts that can be found on the Podcast.com site.

Every two weeks Flipping Channels will highlight some of the best, yet lesser known, programming found on a different Podcast.com channel page. The podcast can be found at flippingchannels.podcast.com.

Flipping Channels will be:

  • Focusing on a different content category every other week
  • Excerpting episodes from three different podcasts per show
  • Spotlighting podcasts outside of traditional media
  • Highlighting podcasts that may not be known by the masses

Originally posted on April 15, 2008 @ 5:56 pm

RadioTime and Cox Radio partner to improve online radio experience for listeners

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RadioTime, Inc., developer of the RadioGuide technology for finding and listening to more than 50,000 AM/FM radio stations online, announced that Cox Radio has licensed program information for distribution over computers and other devices that connect to the RadioTime guide. The RadioTime-Cox Radio partnership enables listeners using their computers or New Radio devices to find real-time information about what’s airing on all Cox Radio stations nationwide.

RadioTime’s unique online RadioGuide provides listeners with a quick and easy way to find radio content from 50,000 stations and 100,000 local and syndicated shows airing around the world. Listeners can search for a specific station or program or browse by genre or location and no longer need to browse through dozens of web sites to find their favorite local shows online or download multiple media players.

Partnering with Cox Radio will enable RadioTime to display more accurate information about programs airing on all Cox Radio stations including show names, hosts, and songs on New Radio devices such as the Logitech Squeezebox.

Originally posted on March 12, 2008 @ 12:35 am

uBroadcast launches new comedy site

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ubroadcast, Inc. has successfully launched “ubroadcast Comedy”, the first in a series of content specific web sites currently under development.

The company has designated channel 200 as its new Comedy Channel, which in conjunction with the new comedy specific web site, will feature Independent comedy broadcasters, as well as showcase professional scheduled broadcasts.

The first regularly scheduled show on the new ubroadcast Comedy Channel is the Lunatic Radio show and airs every Sunday at 5PM EST. Lunatic Radio is a live and interactive “Vulgar, awkward, and sometimes funny” broadcast that interviews a wide range of guests, including comedians Dane Cook, Jamie Kennedy, Michael Ian Black, and musician Richard Patrick, most notably from the band, Filter.

Originally posted on March 6, 2008 @ 1:44 pm