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3 May 2006

Podcasting: the CBC dips the rest of the foot in the water

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Category: Culture, Arts and Popcorn; Technology

Okay, so it isn’t the revolution. But it’s a big step forward for Mother Corporation as the CBC unleashes a whole bunch of new podcasts on an unsuspecting public.

Every day will bring a new edition of a particular podcast:

  • Monday – The Best of Ideas
  • Tuesday – Dispatches
  • Wednesday – The Best of Outfront
  • Thursday – The Best of The Current
  • Friday – The Best of As It Happens
  • Saturday – Quirks & Quarks
  • Sunday – The Best of DNTO

That enough for you? Wait, don’t answer – there’s more, updated with varying frequency:

  • CBC Radio 3
  • Sounds Like Canada: The Digital Extra
  • CBC Radio Editor’s Choice
  • Words at Large
  • Word of the Week

Still got some room on that iPod? There’s also a weekly roundup of stories from every region of Canada.

The upshot is a dramatic multiplication of the CBC’s podcast offerings, with a promise of more to come. This has to be pretty gratifying for the broadcaster’s in-house tech visionary and podcast evangelist, Tod Maffin, who’s done a lot to make this happen. Online communities around each podcast would be a natural next step, but this is terrific progress.

  • http://pacificgazette.blogspot.com RossK

    What?

    No best of Cluffie and Jenna?

    I’m shocked I tell you.

    Shocked.

    Now if they had the best of anything Nora Young (DNTOing it or otherwise)….that I might even pay to download.

    Or even better – Jack Farr.

    And where the hell is George Singum Quimby these days anyway?

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  • brad

    Is CBC doing any video podcasts yet?

    I’ve been stranded on the other side of the Atlantic and have been missing Canadian TV since iCraveTV got sued out of existence. I understand you’ve changed the map since I left (Nunavut) and elected a cannibal for a prime minister. How time flies…

    What ever happened to that brilliant CaNet4 idea to create a publicly owned national fibre network connecting every home by 2005? Did you build it? Do you now have a vibrant, world-leading digital economy? Or is it the same as everywhere else. (Don’t worry, business *can* provide essential infrastructure, it just takes longer and costs more.)

    I miss snow. And I miss the social provisions I took for granted, like unemployment insurance, maternity/paternity leave, and community recreation facilities. I now pay the same tax rate – but without the same level of deliverable social services. Who knew that a vaguely socialist parliamentary democracy was capable of delivering such a good standard of living? Is it wrong to suspect you’ve botched it all up since I left?

    I look forward to CBC video podcasts, whenever they arrive.

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