Curry hooks up with Sirius for daily podcast show |
Loading ...Adam Curry has another New York gig. So do, potentially, the rest of the podsphere. Effective May 13 on Sirius Satellite Radio, Curry will help with a four hour program culled from podcasts that will run every weekday. 
Mr. Curry will help choose material for “Adam Curry’s PodShow” from some of the thousands of amateur shows produced in basements, living rooms and dormitories. Sirius subscribers, who pay $12.95 a month for the service, can listen to the show on channel 148, “Talk Central.”
The same article points to the recent Inifinity broadcasting story where Infinity says it is converting an entire station to podcasted content.
Michael Gartenberg wonders if anybody besides Curry is getting paid for the Sirius gig and Scoble replies that he has friends who are working with Adam who are also getting paid. Gartenberg in another blog entry also is curious why anybody would pay to listen to podcasts with commercials, adding:
Of course I would also get to select the programming myself and not Adam Curry. Can someone please explain this to me?
Here’s an explanation: convenience. The assumption being that Curry will save folks time by finding gems in the slushpile as well as feature new podcasts. Curry has been doing that on his blog since day one (our podcast, Webmaster Cookbook got listed his blog). Let’s hope that actually happens and it’s not more of the same players getting the same exposure. Let’s hope shows like The Metal Show (blogrolled), Coverville, Earthcore, and Matt May’s Staccato get some exposure, just to name a few. I’m somewhat concerned, though, that the ‘Pioneers’ will be the ones getting the most airplay, but I’ll give Curry the benefit of the doubt.
Also, from what I understand this isn’t going to be an extra premium channel for $12.95, is it? If this is an extra premium channel (costing subscribers an additioanl fee) then forget about it, but if it’s included in the normal Sirius monthly programming fee, I can see how people will tune and find this useful. They aren’t paying any more for the content in the latter case. Even thought it’s convenient to subscribe to podcasts, you still have the work of sifting through and finding the podcasts. Programs like Curry’s help with the filtering process.
I was already planning on making the plunge in 2006 when Stern moved over to Sirius, but now I might do it a bit sooner (May 13 sooner). Just to see what types of podcasts Curry is picking out. If he creams the podcasting sphere as well as providing bits from new shows, and doesn’t go back to the same shows we’ve already heard about ad nauseum, then I’ll gladly be tuned in.
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Umm, so, the podcasters themselves won’t see much other than exposure… Hopefully the feeds will at least have their URLs mentioned??? If not then what’s the use? If you have commercials in your podcasts will they get edited out? This may border on leeching at best and copyright infringement at worst.
Comment by FranciscoIV — May 2, 2005 @ 9:55 am PST
Fair use will come into play if it’s just snippets, which is what I think it’s primarily going to be, FranciscoIV. He already does that on his podcast. I don’t think Curry is going to be digging in for significant parts of podcasts unless they are creative commons licensed for commercial use, but then again, he’s the same guy who at one time was playing RIAA music without a license (do a search through this blog and you’ll find that past piece), so who knows. I would imagine Sirius legal staff though is going to have some sort of content control over this.
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