05 Apr 2006
Podcasting Roils NPR Fund Raising

Another podcasting piece, this one detailing the trauma the format is causing NPR stations around the country. What somebody needs to do is to develop an adequate pricing/subscription model for podcasts, or, alternately, figure out how to weave commercials into them seamlessly so that end users can't just skip them (a la Tivo).

Otherwise, podcasting may indeed be a blip, not a boom.

Fans of top shows download to dodge pledge drives, leading some local affiliates to worry about declining dollars. By Steve Friess.

(link) [Wired News: Top Stories]

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