2 iTunes/podcast questions

[mshar253]

1. I am hooked up on talk radio. Since I’ve recently moved to an area where I don’t get radio reception, I use the radio part of iTunes frequently to listen to shows that don’t have their own podcasts. Why, however, can’t I record shows on iTunes, to listen to them later? Am I missing anything? Are there programs I can download that will allow me to do this? For instance, in Philadelphia, I love the overnight guy on the sports radio station–do I have no choice but to stay up from 2 AM to 6 AM to listen to him?

2. Kind of pertaining to the above question, I am subscribed to a morning radio show on iTunes, and listen to that one when I get around to it daily. My question is, what is the point of giving me the show (practically in entirety) and not having the commercials in there? The specific podcast I am referring to is “WMMR’s Preston and Steve Podcast.” I’m not complaining (it’s great to listen to the entire show without the bothersome commercials), but I don’t understand what’s in it for the radio station. Plus, if I were paying for commercials to air during that show on the radio, I’d be a little peeved if people were able to listen to it later without my ads.

[Garfield226]

@mshar253

1. I am hooked up on talk radio. Since I’ve recently moved to an area where I don’t get radio reception, I use the radio part of iTunes frequently to listen to shows that don’t have their own podcasts. Why, however, can’t I record shows on iTunes, to listen to them later? Am I missing anything? Are there programs I can download that will allow me to do this? For instance, in Philadelphia, I love the overnight guy on the sports radio station–do I have no choice but to stay up from 2 AM to 6 AM to listen to him?

A quick google for “record itunes radio” yields a bunch of programs that say they’ll do this. I don’t know which if any of them work, nor if it’s legal.

2. Kind of pertaining to the above question, I am subscribed to a morning radio show on iTunes, and listen to that one when I get around to it daily. My question is, what is the point of giving me the show (practically in entirety) and not having the commercials in there? The specific podcast I am referring to is “WMMR’s Preston and Steve Podcast.” I’m not complaining (it’s great to listen to the entire show without the bothersome commercials), but I don’t understand what’s in it for the radio station. Plus, if I were paying for commercials to air during that show on the radio, I’d be a little peeved if people were able to listen to it later without my ads.

I can only add an anecdote here. I was listening to Leo Laporte recording his twit.tv podcast (I was listening to it live, as he was recording, to distribute it later). He put in his weekly sponsor ad for audible.com, and he and the guests went off on a tangent about mp3 players for audio books and the Kindle reader from Amazon and a bunch of other stuff. Eventually, he reined it back in, saying they couldn’t let the “ad” run too long because they had to cut it out when they streamed it on AOL, because AOL provides their bandwidth and doesn’t allow any other ads.