BlogTalkRadio
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Type of site | Internet radio network |
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| Owner | Alan Levy Bob Charish |
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| Parent | Cinchcast, Inc. |
| URL | blogtalkradio.com (Archived on January 31, 2025) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Free, required to host, optional to listen |
| Launched | August 2006 |
| Current status | Defunct |
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BlogTalkRadio was a web-based platform operating from August 2006 to January 2025. It allowed podcasters and radio sites and talk show hosts to create live and on-demand talk format content for distribution on the web and podcast distribution channels. It offered a web-based 'studio' that allowed its content creators to host multi-participant broadcasts using a computer and a phone.[1][2]
Development
After setting up a blog to update his family on his ailing father, Alan Levy, a former accountant and telecommunications executive, launched the service in August 2006, as a way to allow audio content creators to communicate directly with their audiences in real time.[3][4]
Service
This service allowed up to five callers at a time, although unlimited participants could listen in.[5] Shows streamed directly from the host page during live broadcasts, and were archived as podcasts. Previous shows could be streamed, downloaded directly or subscribed to as podcasts via RSS through any podcatcher like Juice, Stitcher or iTunes.[1][2] This service also provided promotional badges and flash player code for placement on blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other Social networking sites.[2][4]
Cinch
Cinch allowed anyone to dial a "Cinch number" and record a podcast with a built-in RSS feed without any preregistration or prior setup.
Reception
In 2008, Howard Kurtz, in his "Media Notes" column in The Washington Post, wrote of BlogTalkRadio that "The process is nearly idiot-proof," and called it "a populist force in cyberspace."[3]
Also in 2008, Condé Nast Portfolio referred to BlogTalkRadio as a site that "has become the dominant player in the latest media trend, one that allows anyone with a Web connection to host a talk show on any topic at any time of day. It is the newest form of new media; the audio version of the internet blog."[6] In the same article, however, the profitability of the service was called into question as BlogTalkRadio was then operating at a loss.[6]
Closure
In November 2024, BlogTalkRadio emailed its customers to announce that the platform would shut down on January 31, 2025.[7][8] According to domain monitoring data from UpDownToday, the domain blogtalkradio.com remained accessible beyond the announced shutdown date, with availability recorded as of July 30, 2025.[9]
See also
Notable networks
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.White, Gary (2007-08-20), "Movie Buffs Go Big Online", The Ledger (Lakeland, FL)
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Havenstein, Heather (2007-08-03), "Los Angeles Fire Department all 'a Twitter' over Web 2.0", Computerworld, archived from the original on 2007-11-09
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kurtz, Howard (2008-03-24), "With BlogTalkRadio, the Commentary Universe Expands", The Washington Post
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McKay, Martha (2007-01-21), "An idea born amid grief: Keeping ties during illness leads to BlogTalkRadio", The Record (Hackensack, NJ), archived from the original on 2007-10-18 At Internet Archive
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Thomasch, Paul (2007-12-27), "Aspiring radio talkers need only a computer & phone", Reuters
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Levine, David (2008-02-26), "All Talk?", Conde Nast Portfolio
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."BlogTalkRadio closure - its email to customers". podnews.net. 2024-11-14. Retrieved 2025-06-24.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cyrus Webb (2024-11-13). Blogtalkradio is shutting down after 18 years. Here's what we know. Retrieved 2025-06-24 – via YouTube.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."blogtalkradio.com site status". UpDownToday. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
