Yesterday I reported that Daniele Rossi (Stuttering is Cool), Melinda Mason (My Marilyn) and I will be on the Friday edition of CBC’s Sounds Like Canada.  Unfortunately, we’ve been rescheduled for Monday (June 23).

Daniele Rossi (Stuttering is Cool), Melinda Mason (My Marilyn) and I will be on the Friday edition of CBC’s Sounds Like Canada with current host Kathryn Gretsinger.  We’ll be talking about being independent producers of audio content and this weekend’s Podcasters Across Borders conference in Kingston, Ontario.

Turn your radios to CBC Radio 1 this Friday between 10:00am and 11:00am.

Terry O’Reilly, host of the amazing CBC program, The Age of Persuation, announced on his blog a few days ago that season three of the show will hit the airwaves again beginning in January.

Mark Ramsey (Hear2.0) has published a great post (Beware the Insider’s Perspective) in which he challenges radio stations to reconsider their thought process to be outward, not inward, looking. It’s worth a read by anyone (including podcasters) who may be looking for ways to reinvigorate their own projects.

Everyone who knows me knows that CBC radio’s Ottawa Morning and All In A Day have been my daily staples for several years. In fact, All In A Day served as inspiration for my own Electric Sky Podcast.

At the Montreal Podcast meetup this week, I publicly announced that 2006 was the year in which I abandoned my beloved radio shows. Both have undergone some radical changes in the last year, the most obvious are new hosts with styles that, even after many months, I have not been able to warm up to. This of course means that I have nearly wrapped up my love affair with terrestrial radio.

I remain a subscriber to several CBC Podcasts including The Digital Extra, Quirks and Quarks, Editor’s Choice, Ideas and Ontario This Week - a show that is hosted by the talented Michael Bhardwaj and features highlights of Ottawa Morning, Ontario Today and All In A Day.

Now, if CBC could Podcast Vinyl Cafe and O’Reilly and the Age of Persuasion…

I’ll be a guest of Points North, the afternoon show on CBC Radio Sudbury, today at 4:20pmET. Dan Lessard will be interviewing me about Just One More Book, a podcast about children’s books that I produce and host with my wife, Andrea.

I will be interviewed on CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning before 7:00am on Tuesday, November 28, about Just One More Book, a podcast about children’s books.

In this week’s episode of the Canadian Podcast Buffet, I reported that the interview would be Monday (November 27) which was true at the time we recorded the Buffet. The interview was rescheduled this afternoon.

Radio stations that use Podcasting as a way to build a bigger audience and make it more convenient for their listeners to consume previously broadcasted content have a great measuring tool at their disposal. If the on-air content can’t keep a Podcast audience engaged, get out of the coalmine.

I ran into CBC’s Alan Neal the other day.  Naturally, we spoke about Podcasting.  It turns out that Alan featured the world premiere of Uncle Seth’s newest single, To Be An Angel, on his radio program Bandwidth last Saturday (September 16).

Mark Ramsey has posted his view on how radio stations can use Podcasts to attract listeners their radio broadcasts (To Podcast or Not to Podcast).  The idea is to justify the on-air content and advertising dollars without erasing everything by giving it all away on the Internet.  He raised some great points.  However, he missed a key and critical approach.

Mark failed to present the idea of Podcasting behind the scenes content, outtakes and discussions with the Production team.  This approach accomplishes several things.  First and foremost, it will help to build a sense of community between the audience and the team that creates the program - something that the best radio shows have always enjoyed and that the online community craves.  It also creates a two-way relationship between terrestrial and online delivery in which the audience is drawn to both formats since they complement, not compete, with each other.