Talking Voices Ireland

Talking Voices complete webcast for RaboDirect.ie inside the ‘boot camp for money’ we filmed June 3rd 2008.

quick round up of news from the Talking Voices team in Ireland,

[update] I forgot to mention we are proud to be associated with downloadmusic.ie USB album thingie, where Brian is on the  judging panel.

Talking Voices were recently re commissioned to record another 10 podcast episodes for RaboDirect.ie a part of the Rabo Bank group. The 10 are in post production and the first 2 have been published. download here

Our breakfast briefing series of podcasts for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (ICAI) enters its 2nd year now and hot on the heals of the January property forecast last Friday at the Hilton Hotel Dublin we recorded and published the second briefing of 2008 titled Lending - what the Banks look for (speakers from AIB) check the podcasts out at http://www.icai.ie

Brian has been busy working along side the Emigrant Advice Network and Irish Overseas Broadcasting who together are highlighting the plight of medium wave radio audiences who face a cessation of service from RTE Radio 1 on 567kHz on March 24th . Next week we meet with the department of communication in an attempt to highlight the concerns of listerners and the business & technical reasons why this is a very bad move. more details from http://www.ean.ie/category/radio

Finally a critique of Digital Terrestrial Television and the potential Free To Air components with in it, DTT TV is about to be rolled out in Ireland, this is a good time to ponder, will Ireland repeat the mistakes of ONdigital or embrace the openness of FreeView. http://www.rte2fta.com/

with new logo & after a lenghty hiatus Leviathan podcast is back. same old url shinny new MP3s oh and new url too. recorded at Crawdaddy Dublin Nov 2nd this episode features all the usual suspects and Naomi Klien interviewed by host David McWilliams.

hear part one here

…followed by a panel discussion on “Romantic Ireland’s Dead and Gone” with Green Party Senator, Deirdre de Burca ; Sinn Fein Councillor, Killian Forde ; Sunday Independent columnist Carol Hunt; Sunday Times columnist and blogger Sarah Carey , Irish Times Columnist John Waters and featuring Blogger TwentyMajor, as well as musical satire from Paddy Cullivan/ Clint Velour and a new cartoon from Langerland.com.

hear part two here 
promoter: Naoise Nunn :: recorded on location at Crawdaddy Dublin :: podcast production Talking Voices

(Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union reports via media network)

ABC-Australia’s digital downloads have hit new heights with the number of downloaded ABC vodcasts and podcasts soaring to five million in the month of July. ABC vodcasts jumped from an average of 769,000 monthly downloads in the first half of the year to over 1.4 million downloads in July. Vodcasts of programme episodes or programme segments are now available for 14 ABC TV shows.

The total number of ABC podcasts increased by over one million, from a monthly average of two million from January to June, to over 3.5 million downloads in July. Radio Australia programmes made up 37 percent of all podcast downloads, followed by Radio National.

Radio Australia downloads skyrocketed from 302,000 (January to June monthly average) to 1.3 million in July, with podcasts from “English for Tourism” proving most popular for overseas audiences.

A pioneering Irish-language project won the top award last night at the Digital Media Awards held in Dublin’s Burlington Hotel.

The Irish-language podcast An tImeall won the award for the Best Independent Podcast, and then went on to receive the Grand Prix for the top marks received among the 22 category winners.

Graeme Slattery, Head of Music at 3 Mobile, presented one of the two awards to Conn Ó Muíneacháin from County Clare based company Edgecast Media. Conn launched An tImeall in 2005. It was the first podcast in the Irish language.

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Third in the Grand Prix was WLR FM who also won best Commercial Radio Podcasting award on the night.

Brian Greene, Partner, doop.ie presented the award to Roddie Cleere & Tim Hasset of Waterford Local Radio.

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[disclaimer: i was a judge for the DMA's 2007 and yes that is me pictured above]

[update] Video Bloggers/Podcaster/Youtubers BALCONY TV also took a gong for best music site.