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Besides the ‘revelation’, and there was no pun intended there, that even Catholic priests are producing ‘Podcasts’ there’s been some more significant news this past week on the fast emerging Podcasting phenomenon. Within days of each other both Sirius Satellite Radio and Infinity Broadcasting announced separate plans to put podcasts on broadcasts for mainstream and satellite-radio distribution.

Infinity Broadcasting, one of the USA’s largest radio operators with more than 180 stations around the country (and the radio division of Viacom) announced late last week that they plan to convert San Francisco’s 1550 KYCY, an AM station, to listener-submitted content.

The station, previously devoted to a talk-radio format, will be renamed KYOU Radio and will invite DiY radio producers to upload digital audio files for broadcast consideration via the KYOU Radio website.

Programmes are set to start May 16th and the station is billing itself as the first in the world to get all of its programming from podcasts. KYOU will cover the cost of music-licensing fees from industry producers so podcast contributors can include music from major record labels.

Sirius said Monday it plans to add a four hour podcasting show to its satellite programming starting May 13 on the talk channel 148. The show, “Adam Curry’s PodShow,” will star the former MTV video jock who helped develop the technology. Podcasting was developed in part thanks to the work of Curry and his iPodder software..

Podcasting is a way of publishing sound files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new audio files automatically. Podcasting is distinct from other types of audio content delivery because it uses the RSS protocol. This technique has enabled many producers to create self-published, syndicated radio shows.

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