Podcasts are quickly gaining massive popularity all around the world. One of the reasons is that it takes us back to a very similar type of entertainment we used to enjoy which was old time radio. The new trend of podcasts is very much like old time radio plays. Kids and adults used to gather round the old radio to listen to certain programming. This type of programming just like tv's without DVR's was set at a certain time and had several different shows. And many of the shows would be in episodes that you would have to listen to in sequence for the whole story.
Today's version of the old time radio plays is a lot more convenient. Podcasts are essentially "on demand" programs that are available for downloading and streaming. Many of the great podcasts are traditional interview and talk shows, however we are starting to see a lot of story telling and episodic type podcasts as well. There are also many different genres in pod casting to chose from that parents and kids can listen to the same types of podcasts or branch out into ones of their own liking. As we evolve into new forms of entertainment. I for one believe that podcasts will be around for a long time. Radio may have run the majority of its course, but the roots of pod casting in my mind are still firmly cemented in old time radio shows. And as our data storage gets larger and the files get smaller. We are able to archive many more podcasts.
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