sounds good, must try
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com/

Podshow has a history of big announcements around the Podcast Expo. They’ve done it the last two years and we should expect nothing less.

Let’s hope for their sake that the announcement is something bigger than being picked up by Tivo.

Paul

pets.com for Web 2.0

It would be one thing if they had raised 2 or 3 million dollars, but podshow has raised $24 million and has been at it for more than 2 years…

10-12m viewers

Of whom, let’s say a charitable 10% have an interest in PodShow’s programming: 1.2m viewers

Of those, how many watch original content on their TiVo and take the time to find stuff like PodShow? Let’s be really charitable and say 25%: 300,000 viewers.

Of those, how many will stick around and become regular viewers? Let’s be super super kind and say 25%: 75,000 viewers via TiVo for PodShow.

Of those, how often will they tune in? Let’s be charitable and say once a week: 10,050 new daily viewers!

Funny how they always find it important to announce something during the convention but never want to participate in the Expo itself.

Podcast are evil and a waste of time. They represent the worst of the human condition and must be eradicated.
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

A third round of funding? They’ve went through $23 million in little under two years? That’s a crazy burn rate for a company that does little more than feed the owner’s ego and do some audio advert insertion before other people’s podcasts… and adverts that shout “Help us suck less” at that.

Looks like they’re up to more than just TiVo:
http://www.theplustv.com/

i won’t slam Adam, but this is far more meaningful for him (and his meaningessly low #s) than it is for TiVo whose #’s get worse all the time…

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2007.....2001-2007/

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2007.....gust-2007/

If this story is correct, I have a different opinion than some of the others on this comment thread. I think this is potentially very big, even bigger than when Apple added podcast support to iTunes.

There are a lot of worthless podcasts, to be sure, but more and more we’re seeing some good original content in both audio and, increasingly, video podcasts. Podshow is doing a pretty good job at aggregating all of those in a manner that helps users find shows and helps shows find an audience. (Yes, their website sucks but it is getting better and they at least are soliciting feedback and acting on it). Podshow also appears to be aggressively encouraging the development of original programming. I thought the “In The Attic” series from this last year was one of the best and most creative live music program series I have ever watched.

Add TiVo to this mix you have a potentially much larger market of consistent viewers. If I could add some of these video podcasts to my TiVo list of shows I record, I would watch more that I would if I had to sit in front of the computer. If PodShow can add in some of the “channel” aspect of what they appear to be doing on their website, enabling the social aspect - allowing me to see and view what other people are recording - you have even more potential for getting more viewers, viewing more consistently, discovering more programming, which in turn feeds the generation of ever more new original programming. I would think advertisers would flock to this.

Anything that makes original programming more accessible is a good thing, in my opinion. I’m very interested to see how this one plays out.

Tom Buckley
Indianapolis

Available to 10-12million TiVo users? Not even close.

The TiVoCast service only works for TiVo’s connected to a broadband internet connection.

TiVo has 1.7 million current subscribers using their boxes [as opposed to DirecTiVo], feel free to add in a few more hundred thousand for users who are no longer considered “subscribers” for SEC purposes if you feel generous:

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2007.....gust-2007/

I’d be surprised if even half of those have a broadband internet connection.

You’d have to apply a very high user/TiVo ratio to assume those connected machines had a “user” base of anything more than a few million.

Vince,

You know if you actually knew anything about “burn rates” and how companies are run, maybe you’d be doing it instead of sitting here spouting off like you actually know something, chump.

TR

Tivo has more like 1-2 million users and probably only 500K who can access any web content. The rest are via DIRECTV and not web enabled.(3-4 million)

I was very disappointed to find out the show I co-created and co-produce for the Podshow Network was being passed over by Tivo. “Port City PD” was originally pitched with all of the rest of the shows now currently showing up on Podshow’s Tivo page, but Tivo is only accepting content, get this podcasters…that are rated “G” or “PG” only due to the FCC.

First let me say that our show pushes the limits, but we do nothing you wouldn’t see on Network television. Shows like “The Sheild” and “CSI” are more violent and gruesome than our show. We are guilty of dropping the “F-Bomb” from time to time, but that’s all. Remember in 1993 when “NYPD Blue” showed bare breasts in the pilot episode, and Dennis Franz’s butt in the shower. We don’t even come close, unless you count the rated “G” Christian Coalition, I mean Cali Lewis, describing our show on “Geek Brief” in her mind as “Kinda reminds me of a porno”. I guess she has never watched shows like “The Sheild”, “NYPD Blue”, “CSI”, “24″, because they all remind me or porno…….what a joke.

The cast and crew have worked so hard for almost two years to bring the first full production series that in my mind crushes the likes of “Lonelygirl15″ to the internet. Our show is not just sitting in front of a camera like a news anchor and reading from other people’s bloggs. Now that we are in season two filming in “HD” we are being passed over for now. By the way, “Port City PD” Season 2 looks great on a HD Tv or any Tv for that matter. Tivo’s loss for now.

So be excited for Podshow and the Tivo venture, but expect documentaries and news type shows for your entertainment. So to all podcasters out there make sure you censor yourselves if you want to be on Tivo.

This doesn’t sound like “Independent Media” to me.

Shaun O’Rourke
Co-Creator and Co-Producer
“Port City PD”

http://www.portcitypd.podshow.com

Jeez, Shaun,

I subscribe to Port City PD through iTunes, and without question, it’s the best show Podshow has — it’s very well made and very well acted. I was a huge NYPD Blue fan back in the day, and what you guys are doing is very much on a par with them

By not picking up Port City PD, Tivo has demonstrated how very “old media” they are — the knuckleheads!

Nil illegitimus carborundum, and …

Cheers!
Murphy

Shaun,

Keep up the great work, and your head held high. The show is fantastic.

Best
Jersey Todd

Shaun -

FYI - The FCC has no domain over TIVOCast content. However, since TIVO does not have parental controls for TIVOCAST - it’s likely TIVO doesn’t want anything above PG because kids could get at and download that content.

Just offering an explanation…..

–*Rob

i don’t know what the situation is with port city…but there are currently shows (not from podshow) in the current tivocast menu with tv-14 ratings, which is defined as follows:

“This program contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age. Parents are strongly urged to exercise greater care in monitoring this program and are cautioned against letting children under the age of 14 watch unattended. This program contains one or more of the following: intense violence (V), intense sexual situations (S), strong coarse language (L), or intensely suggestive dialogue (D).”

Hey Shaun O’Rourke. I love Port City PD. It’d be a real shame if TiVo left you in the dark.

At least the rest of us is enjoying the show. Keep it up!