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Starting in the autumn of 2004, radio stations began to investigate podcasting as suitable for delivering their programming, especially news and interview shows that were free of the complications of music licensing. The first pioneers were mainly English language public radio producers, such as those associated with US National Public Radio, Public Radio International, and the British and Australian Broadcasting Corporations, followed within months by commercial radio, and by broadcasters in other countries and other languages. In the US, individual television stations also began audio-only podcasts of news programs. Network programming was added later, including audio feeds related to television dramatic series. The technology behind podcasting became available in January 2001, and the word was coined in early 2004, when only a few websites used the format as an outgrowth of weblog syndication feeds. (See podcasting for details.) In 2004 and 2005, trial years for the format, many traditional broadcasters offered only a selection of programming as a way to gauge demand for the new delivery method. As of December 2005, few traditional broadcasters were yet to adopt podcasting for all of their content.
Australia The ABC's Radio National and Triple J Networks, and SBS SBS are making programmes available. In May 2005 Sydney station 2MBS became the first Australian community broadcaster to make content available in the format when it's Ultima Thule weekly ambient music programme was made available as a podcast. Melbourne community broadcaster 3RRR 3RRR has since begun podcasting as well. Many Austereo radio stations are embracing the podcasting concept as well. Belgium April 2005: The commercial radio station Nostalgie has been the first one who podcasts some of their programs (more than 10 feeds), including their news bulletin and "400 secondes" political interviews. The VRT has started experiments and offers four programs via podcasting. The french-speaking public radios belonging to the RTBF started a full-scale podcasting offer on April 22, 2006. Broadcasting started in the summer of 2005 on the youth-oriented Pure FM radio. Canada CBC Radio began experimenting with three podcasts (CBC Podcasts). In the summer of 2005, when the CBC locked out more than 5000 of its regular on-air and technical staff, they responded by creating their own unofficial podcast of original programming, CBC Unplugged, which also appeared on some campus and community radio stations. That podcast competed with limited on-air CBC programming, broadcast by a skeleton crew of managers—which, unlike the staff podcast, consisted mostly of repeats and rebroadcasts from the BBC and other networks, with a minimum of new material. Corus Entertainment radio stations across Canada are also providing podcasts for specialty shows. CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto podcasts an environmental news program, The Green Majority, on a weekly basis. Q104 Morning Crew - Based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Get the cast here Chile Radio Zero was the first radio station in Chile to podcasting, beginning in June 2005. As from September 2005, Radio Duna podcasts two of its programs, 'Terapia Chilensis' and 'Sintonia Cronica'. Denmark Danmarks Radio, the national broadcaster has started podcasting, find the posts here. France In 2006, Radio France, the French public service broadcaster, started to podcast many programmes. Ireland RTÉ provide a small number of shows as podcasts. Currently there are a few RTÉ Radio 1 shows but only one show each for their RTÉ 2fm, RTÉ Lyric FM and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta stations. Available here Italy Repubblica Radio, a radio founded by Repubblica (Italy's second most important newspaper), is available either as a stream or as a podcast. Norway The national broadcaster NRK podcasts many of their programs *. All are stripped for music for rights compliance, except for a program featuring unsigned Norwegian bands under the label Untouched Music. Poland The public radio Polskie Radio Szczecin has started publishing podcast of computer magazine Trącić myszką on 17 August 2005. Spain Private radio station Cadena Ser is podcasting many programs. Sweden The public radio operator Sveriges Radio has started to podcast programs. United Kingdom The BBC began a podcast trial in October 2004 with BBC Radio Five Live's Fighting Talk, extending it in January 2005 to BBC Radio 4's In Our Time and in April 2005 to several more programmes from 1Xtra, BBC World Service, BBC Radio nan Gaidheal, Radio Northampton, 6 Music and BBC 7, Radio Brighton * and programs available exclusively on padcast like the Ouch! Podcast. After BBC Radio 1 began podcasting highlights of the Chris Moyles show, US based Sirius Satellite Radio began rebroadcasting the station in North America. London's LBC posts daily highlight podcasts of the Nick Ferrari breakfast show, the Steve Allen early breakfast show, the Iain Lee Drivetime Show and the Anna Raeburn lunchtime show. In January 2006, LBC became the first radio station in the world to introduce a premium service * where subscribers pay for access to extra podcast channels. This included full length shows, extra premium-only shows, and an online Podcast Player, similar to the BBC's Listen Again radio player. Virgin Radio also launched a download and podcasting trial. Early adopters On September 15, 2004, Rob and Dana Greenlee began podcasting their syndicated show, Web Talk Radio, which was already carried by 11 radio stations as well being distributed by webcast and download. *On October 4, 2004, Leo Laporte began re-broadcasting his KFI Los Angeles radio show as a podcast feed. WGBH in Boston began podcasting Tony Kahn's "Morning Stories" on October 7, 2004. KOMO News in Seattle launched a station feed on October 8, 2004 (announcement). National and local NPR programs were early adopters of podcasting, in part because their talk radio formats did not have the complications of music licensing. Three well known public radio stations (Boston's WGBH, New York's WNYC, and Los Angeles' KCRW) developed podcasts of their syndicated and local programs, including WNYC's On the Media and Science Friday (part of the Talk of the Nation radio program). A podcast of the "Off The Hook" program, affiliated with 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, was podcast by New York City's WBAI starting in December, 2004. CNN Radio is now podcasting a variety of programmes covering news and business updates along with special programming featuring in-depth coverage on a variety of topics and current events. Many American college radio stations were early podcasters as well, such as Lafayette College's WJRH. Commercial radio, especially "talk radio" programs, also found their material suited to podcasting, including Rush Limbaugh, who made a podcast part of his Rush 24/7 paid subscription program in June 2005. The commercialization move was summarized by Wired News that month in "Radio Sets Eyes on Podcast Profits." Television network interest included the American Broadcasting Company's ABC News Nightline program. By the end of 2005, the network offered more than 50 podcasts* of audio from news and entertainment programs, including "Exclusiva" programs in Spanish. Other traditional radio stations and programs moving to podcasting are WFMU and Inside Mac Radio. Podcasts feeding radio In May, 2005, the radio-to-podcast trend began to go the other way, with podcasts becoming a source of content for radio broadcasts: | ||||||||
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