One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Sunday, 20 February 2005

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Ed Cone: Beginner's Guide to the...

Ed Cone: Beginner's Guide to the Blogosphere.
[Via Scripting News]

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Podcast doubles (!) NPR show listenership
After WNYC launched the first podcast of an NPR program in January, NPR's On the Media, the station's nationally-broadcast media analysis show, has doubled the amount of listeners it reaches online in just four weeks. On the Media says its podcast audience now rivals the number of individuals that listen to the program in a mid-sized media market like St. Louis or Kansas City. full article

[Via I Love Radio .org]

Amazing. Be careful though: one download does not necessarily equal one listener.

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”Canadian home and auto insurers nearly doubled their annual profit to a record $4.2-billion last year, igniting a firestorm of outrage from consumers and politicians across the country who claim the industry is gouging its customers with high premiums.

Bruce Cran, president of the Consumers' Association of Canada, called the profits "obscene" and labelled the industry's recent insistence on the need for higher rates as a "big lie."”

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3 dressed up as a 2

Actual quote from the CBC website:

Radio 3 regularly airs on CBC Radio Two.

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As of this writing the link in the story points to the wrong web site. You should go to http://www.sonicstudio.com. I've alerted omas.

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Producer - Steven Epstein
Recording Engineer - Richard King

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