AI-generated music tracks are now landing in my inbox, just as Sony takes action against Spotify to get 135,000 deep-fake songs removed from its system. Given this, I couldn’t help myself from commenting on the risks of playing AI music on my weekly radio show. The challenge to support bona fide musicians is real as […]
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When I first started out as a young news reporter working for a regional newspaper I quickly learned that news doesn’t always come to you. There were days when the phones didn’t ring, the fax machine stayed silent, and there was nothing useful in the post. After calling around the usual contacts, schools, emergency services,
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If you run a podcast, an internet radio station, or any kind of local media project, one of the most valuable things you can offer your audience is hyper-local news. Large media organisations tend to focus on national or international stories. Even regional outlets often overlook the small, everyday events that make up the life of
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Somewhere in the English countryside, a grand manor house stands in elegant decay, quiet, forgotten, and seemingly empty. But beneath its fading exterior lies a lively secret. This is the world of The Ghosts of Motley Hall, a charming and quietly imaginative British series that first aired in 1976. Set in the ancestral home of
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Step into the strange, hypnotic world of Eyes Wide Shut – the final, controversial film from legendary director Stanley Kubrick. In this episode of The Channel I dive into the movie that left audiences divided: is it a slow-burn psychological masterpiece… or simply two and a half hours of Tom Cruise wandering through dimly lit
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As a young journalist with next to no interest in sport of any kind; my Monday morning chore was to call about 10 schools and colleges to get the weekend’s sporting results. From soccer, to hockey, and athletics, I’d have to get the names of the teams, any star players (and their ages), location of
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A lot is written about podcast production, gear, software, editing and distribution, but from what I can see there’s very little said about the all-important microphone technique. In other words, the way you actually speak into a microphone.
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Welcome back to Podcasting Made Easy, the show where I attempt to easy your path into podcasting. Now, this episode is especially for podcasters asking one of the most common questions I hear – where do I find people to interview. Okay, where do we find these people? Well, it’s not as hard as you might
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Anyone who has read the fine works of the brilliant Harlan Ellison – late of Ellison Wonderland, Los Angeles – will immediately spot that I’ve twisted the title of one of his most famous short stories for the headline of this post. The original is I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. I’ve borrowed
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Video podcasting is becoming more popular. But what does it take to put yourself on the small screen? Well, not much…
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Hello and welcome to this edition of Podcasting Made Easy, my name is Steve Hart. In this podcast I want to chat about the benefits to you of being a podcaster, and they have nothing to do with audience numbers, downloads, or income. Now, if you’re finding yourself shortchanged when it comes to fast money
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How many downloads does each episode of your podcast get? Twenty? Fifty? Two hundred? If you’re consistently seeing numbers north of 300, you’re doing extremely well – better than most, in fact. To put that into perspective, data from podcast host Libsyn suggests that if an episode receives more than 124 downloads within its first
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I was reading some Facebook groups about the Rodecaster mixer and someone who had got a new mixer was really illustrating they didn’t understand why everything sounded so awful when they recorded their voice. And reading between the lines, I could see, well, they’ve probably gone into the processing section and not really knowing what
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