[Newark] PodCast

Paul Mellors paul at paulmellors.net
Tue Mar 18 11:23:17 GMT 2008


On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:50 +0000, Steve Caddy wrote:
> Chris Hayes wrote:
> 
> > Would anyone here like to do such a podcast if it doesn't exist?
> 
> I can certainly help out with creating podcasts...
> 
> ...however there's possibly something better on the horizon. You may, or may 
> not, be aware that there's a group of people in Newark trying to set up a 
> community radio station (anyone heard of Boundary Sound?). Essentially, you can 
> consider this "access radio", where anyone who has something (clean and legal) 
> to say can put together a programme, and have it broadcast. Now don't get any 
> idea of "prime time" exposure or anything like that - something as minority as 
> Linux is likely to get a 30 minute slot at 1am on a Thursday morning, or 
> something like that (ok, I know the people involved, and it wouldn't be 
> anything nearly that bad), but it'd be one way to get a podcast some slightly 
> more serious exposure (after all, a "podcast" is just a pre-recorded radio 
> programme right?). What's more, if we were broadcasting it on such a station, 
> we could use the station's studio facilities to make a half decent job of it.
> 
> At the moment, Boundary Sound are awaiting news from Ofcom to see if their 
> application has been successul, so there's nothing definate just yet, but don't 
> you find it an exciting prospect to promote Linux to a wider audience?
> 
> Steve
> 

That sounds ace :) i'd be well up for that :)

Paul





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