American Public Media, the nation’s second largest producer and distributor of public radio programs, has announded that it is expanding its podcast offerings. Beginning October 17, American Public Media is making the following full programs available as podcasts: Marketplace, Marketplace Money, Word for Word and American RadioWorks documentaries. The Splendid Table will be offered as [...]

Public radio producer Stephen HIll, host of the popular electronic/space music show Hearts of Space, thinks that High Definition Radio, a standard for near CD-quality radio, is dead on arrival, and that podcasting and other Internet audio options dug its grave.”HD reminds me of DCC (Digital Compact Cassette),” notes Hill, “another attempt by a mature [...]