Adam Curry gets Sirius

Much like Infinity Broadcasting has gotten curious about podcasting, Sirius satellite radio seems to be the latest broadcast media outlet bitten by the DIY bug. To that end, they've hired Adam Curry (billed as "the father of podcasting") to do a four-hour weekday show that will be basically Adam's "greatest hits of podcasting," to be aired daily on Sirius channel 148. Again, as with the Infinity deal, this misses the whole time-shifting aspect of podcasting — but it seems like this arrangement is more about getting some wide promotion for the idea of podcasting in general. As with the former, Curry's Sirius shows will include advertising, though Sirius execs are apparently eager for the show to have that "free-form feel" that is more podcast than mainstream radio. It will be interesting to see if podcasting can be so easily rebadged to have that same feel in a mainstream context.

[Thanks, Andy]

[larry @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

isn't he a Brit ex-pat?

nice hair!

[acidreflux @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

and your telling me this...

[David @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

The father of podcasting? He didn't invent it! All he did was say, "Hey, this is cool and, oh, by the way, I'm still alive." I hate him.

[GunForHire @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

Get your facts right, jerk.

It was Curry's first AppleScript that started off the creation of iPodder clients. He tried to make one himself and when he couldn't he had to ask the open source community to do it for him. When they were working on creating the clients, and Dave Winer had added enclosures to RSS feeds, he produced the first test shows, hence his show's name 'The Daily Source Code'. Adam's show has remained the most professional of all podcasts and has always had the highest production values and he's set a standard that many other podcasts have followed.

His work with Podshow.com is continuing to grow podcasting, with production companies being set up and deals like this being made.

Sounds like a good reason for him to be called 'the father of podcasting' or 'the podfather' if you ask me.

[David Shaff @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

His podcasts suck. Absolutely devoid of anything interesting

[cody @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

he looks totally different then he sounds

[Monmin @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

Wow! #5, Are you telling me that you've never seen Adam Curry before? You've heard his voice on podcasts but have never seen his face before?

OH GOD AM I GETTING OLD!!!

You know your old when Adam Curry isn't the guy who helped pioneer podcasts, but rather the guy who VJ'd on MTV.

[David Simmons @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

#6: heh. I have to admit, I've never seen Curry on MTV before, despite being old enough to. I recall him as the ex-MTV guy who was doing a lot of weird internet stuff back in the mid-'90s, before the internet was "cool". :)

[NESJumpman @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

Perhaps the Sirius work-around to the time shifting will be the Xact Rego (www.xact.com). It has limited details, but does list an ability to record up to 4 hours.

peace.
NESJumpman

[Ric` @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

I am a pretty big fan, and I am asking myself ....is he selling out? And will his Sirius show also be on the internet now?Guess If I gotta buy sirius to hear his show, then he has lost a listener. And will he be smokin splifs on Sirius?.....I have my doubts about that one.

[Daniel Waters @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

Any podcast-related stories on Engadget make me angry at the lack of Engadget Podcasts. :(

[asidrephlux @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

I think that whole term "selling out" is lame. I wonder if people could actually articulate the reasoning behind that term, or they just prefer accusing everyone of it.

[Dolomite @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

Adam Curry is a pompus ass. He did not "invent" podcasting and should stop claiming he did. Harold Gilchrist had been audio blogging long long before Curry started his Daily Source Code and actually delivered the first Audio enclosure over RSS. Wikipedia pretty much has it right (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting). At best Curry coined a word, but there has also been some discussion as to that as well. In any event, Curry may have help popularize the term, but he is still a pompus ass.

[acidreflux @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

He must be rich, becuase that looks like a $500 haircut to me.

[huphtur @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

#1: He's Dutch.

[jj @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

Curry is a tool.

[Bulko @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

Adam Curry? Wasn't that the guy, who commercialized the Internet? Or did he invent it?

[luka @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

no adam curry did not invent the internet :P

he has a helicopter and a company that makes screens for beamers and had a own reallife-soap on sbs6 (dutch) and uh a weblog:http://www.blognewsnetwork.com/members/0000003/

[lupinstel @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

Emmanuelle Goldstein from 2600 magazine has been offering downloads of their radio talk show going back to 1985. While they haven't been offering downloads since 1985, they certainly were offering them long before the Ipod was even thought of. Emmanuelle Goldstein may or may not have been the first to do the downloadable radio show concept, but it certainly wasn't "The Joker", pictured above.

[abraham @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

You guys are a bunch of haters. Whether A. Curry actually "invented" podcasting is debatable...certainly there were others who created downloadable audio content before him. However, NONE of those others created a mass movement like we see today with podcasting. It took someone like A. Curry (and Dave Winer) to popularize the medium.

So please, stop hating. It's juvenile.

[trevor @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

#20: thank you! I was just scrolling down to say something along the same lines, and i saw your post. you other people are just jealous!

[Pauly @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

Everyone's missing the main point of this surely. What I think defines a podcast / blogcast is the time shifting not-actually-broadcast part of it. If you take that away it's just an MP3. If there are any good shows being done out there at least they'll be getting paid for them now I suppose.

http://www.clarkeology.com/cgi-bin/board.cgi/podcasting

[Julkoo @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

'Dave' who?!

[glad @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

Mass movement might be a bit much but guess what podcasting is headed straight into the arms of the madison avenue suits just like a kid at neverland into MJ's bedroom, yeah they'll both get fckd.

[Ben @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

Uggh! It burns!

[Tom Sidock @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

To invision the internet without commerce, there would be no incintive for bandwidth, therefore no broadband and one could speculate, no podcasting.

Curry brings money, recognition, organization, and credibility. In essence the needed catylist for the current firestorm in podcasting. Leaving us free to follow his lead or just bask in the spoils of his success.

Whether we like it or not, the money must come.

Tom
The Loose Ends Show
http://looseends.libsyn.com
http://sdpodcasters.com

[Tom Sidock @ Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM]

To invision the internet without commerce, there would be no incintive for bandwidth, therefore no broadband and one could speculate, no podcasting.

Curry brings money, recognition, organization, and credibility. In essence the needed catylist for the current firestorm in podcasting. Leaving us free to follow his lead or just bask in the spoils of his success.

Whether we like it or not, the money must come.

Tom
The Loose Ends Show
http://looseends.libsyn.com
http://sdpodcasters.com