It seems counter intuitive, to listen to radio through your television, but it's getting an increasingly popular trend. As a result, Virgin Radio will be extending its two digital radio stations, Virgin Radio Classic Rock and Xtreme, onto the UK's Telewest digital TV platform. The move will boost their reach by an additional 1.2 million subscribers.
Oprah gave away a boatload of Video iPods (and Crackberrys, but who cares about that) to an audience full of Katrina relief workers on her "My Favorite Things" episode of her show. The show was dedicated to the Hurricane Katrina relief workers who had no clue they were on her Favorite Things show. They also received a bunch of other stuff like UGG boots, cashmire sweaters, cookie dough, and some other stuff we really don't care about.
ABC is giving fans a lil' something extra in an upcoming LOST podcast. There's not much we know about it other than the exclusive podcast clues will contain some clues for upcoming LOST episodes but there's no details which episodes the clues will pertain to.
Seems like Ford is hoping on improving their image amongst the younger, hipper, and digital music crazed masses loosly given the moniker the iPod Generation. In one of their latest ad spots for the Ford Fusion, a commercial dubbed "Particles," caught the attention of the iPodderrati as it opens up with a young man using his iPod on the subway and then later showing him driving a Fusion.
Howard Stern's replacement has been named for St. Louis' KPNT-FM (105.7 The Point). Rover's Morning Glory will be his replacement when he leaves their airwaves in his last broadcast on Friday, December 16gh. 
Chalk another one up for admitting to Payola (pay for play). The Warner Music Group has agreed to payout $5 million in a donation to the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to hand out to nonprofit groups for music
education. Warner will also pay $50,000 in legal fees Eliot Spitzer's crew spent on bringing these creeps to justice.
If you're one of those peeps who simply can't wait for HD Radio to become standard in cars 10 years from now (assuming a BMW 6-series or 7-series is bit out of your league), and you really really need to listen to crystal-clear "CD Quality" commercials today - well, DICE Electronics has got the solution for you. 
An informed Droxy reader pointed out to me the other day that Mirpod -
which originally was just a virtual iPod playing podcasts - has since
evolved into something much cooler. It's not a standalone product, so
it's no longer necessary to use your browser to find the podcasts you
want to listen to.
Museums really seem to be going head first into the podcast foray. The Eiteljorg Museum is no exception, having kicked off podcasting with it's "Into the Fray: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art" exhibition. The Eiteljorg Museum podcast, like several other museum based podcasts, is hosted by their curators and includes interviews with artists featured in the show. The discussions on American Indian and mainstream art may spark the imaginations of many listeners though.
Intel Capital has obviously been sold on the smoke and mirrors that iBiquity has been dishing out, as they've just thrown a bunch of investment money at the HD Radio developer. While financial terms were not disclosed, you can bet that this is a much needed injection of cash in an industry that is not looking too good versus satellite.
Rajar, a radio measurement firm in the UK, has released some very interesting numbers showing that DAB listening (via the radio) has overtaken listening via digital TV and the internet for the first time. The number of people tuning in via DAB has jumped by 165%. Damn.
According to the NPD Group, the iTunes Music Store has come into its own and has bested the likes of Tower, Sam Goody and Borders for the 3rd quarter of 2005. This puts Apple's iTunes into the Top 10 list of leading U.S. Music Retailers coming in at number 7. It should be noted that the numbers were based per unit - so 12 song downloads = 1 CD. I think that's still fair enough.
One of Harvard's Computer Science classes, "Understanding Computers and the Internet," has seen a massive fanfare from putting class lectures up as podcasts. Since making the lectures available as both audio and video podcasts via iTunes, "Understanding Computers and the Internet" Podcast has made the jump to the top 100 podcasts and the "New-and-Notable" list on iTunes. And damnit, there's bragging rights in that!
A special collaborative effort between the Special Educational Assistive Technology, McLean County Unit District Number 5 and Infinitec has gone underway to create a podcast for helping children with disabilities. Specifically it's geared toward using technology with students with disabilities in a classroom setting. Entitled the BEST Podcast, short for the Building Educational Success Through Technology podcast, it provides teachers, parents, administrators and students an additional resource for learning about assistive technology. Awesome
Parliant has been upgraded to include BIAS Peak Express 5 as part of its PhoneValet Podcast bundle (which in itself is an extension of the PhoneValet Message Center 3.0). 
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