KPBS Provides Podcast of These Days

A friend of mine sends me this:

KPBS-FM’s signature local program, “These Days,” is now available on demand via podcasting to personal MP3 players and computers. KPBS is the first news station in San Diego to podcast local content; in fact, there are only a handful of public radio stations in the country that are podcasting any of their local programming. Podcasting got the name from when an iPod (or computer or MP3 player) meets broadcasting. Here’s how it works: listeners subscribe to a feed once. From then on, audio files are automatically downloaded for listening on an iPod, MP3 player or computer. By podcasting “These Days,” the latest interviews and news stories will be downloaded so that subscribers can “tune in” whenever and wherever. The subscription is free.

“We are opening up the content of ‘These Days’ and making it available to listeners at their convenience,” says KPBS-FM Program Director John Decker. “It breaks open a whole new way of listening to local radio.”

The feed is at http://kpbs.org/thesedays/podcast/, and more information can be found on this page.

San Diego Blog commends KPBS‘ embrace of this great and convenient way to consume radio! These days is a pretty good show. And I’m not just saying that because I was once on it. L.A. station KCRW was the first station I know of to embrace podcasting. They got a lot of play from that in blogland. Let’s hope more stations with local content get into this. I bet people would really dig a podcast of A Way With Words.

Update: my friend got it from Radio-news-centric sdradio.net.