Podcasts: An Overwhelming Amount of Content
The radio can get boring after awhile, the music stations just cycle through the same songs everyday. There was always the highlight of a few talk radio shows, usually on the AM frequencies. But even those may get dull. With the rise of MP3s and the iPod came podcasting. People put out their shows for live streaming or as a downloadable file. Many comedians have moved into this field, as well as many others.
There is likely a podcast for whatever topic you are interested it in. Be it technology, cars, sports, comedy, games, politics, religion, new, health and so on. As the Apple iTunes web pages lists, there are over 150,000 podcast available. What is one to do? There are not enough hours in the day. Even just looking through them all to find a few that you like is a daunting task. I only listen to a couple of shows at the moment, and even keeping up with just two can get overwhelming at times. Downloading them for later listening is my preferred method, but the episodes come up faster than I get to listen to all of them.
It is great that virtually anyone can put out a podcast. Even former radio personalities have moved on to podcasting after the ends of their terrestrial radio shows. Such a great way for them to still reach out to their fans.