Weather Brains To Launch Soon

How times change. Just a few years ago, most folks (myself included) never heard of words like blogs and podcasts. As the radio and TV business continues to change like a meteor streaking through the night, you better keep up with those kind of buzz words or you will be left in the dust.

We started podcasting about one year ago. Podcasts are audio programs that can be heard on a computer, or a portable music player like an iPod (that is where the name podcast came from). Our podcasts are fairly short (one to two minutes generally), and consist of a short Alabama weather discussion and forecast for the next five to seven days. The podcasts are available twice daily, and the listening growth is simply phenomenal.

We are about to embark on a new podcast project called “Weather Brains”. This will be a long form show (30 minutes), and will be all about weather. The show will feature all of my associates; J.B. Elliott, John Oldshue, Jason Simpson, Brian Peters, and Bill Murray. And, we plan on having nationally known guests. We will talk about anything and everything related to weather. And, this really won’t target just those people in Alabama, it is hoped we will have a large amount of national distribution. You will be able to subscribe to Weather Brians from iTunes, or via RSS through other podcasting programs. The show will automatically be downloaded to your computer, and then to your portable music player when you sync it up.

We hope to have the first show available within three weeks. This will be a show for real weather weenies and geeks… we will have details on this web site

http://www.weatherbrains.com

Stay tuned!
Posted by  
on January 5, 2006, 9:48 pm
I think all the hate mail has taken a toll on him. He called us weenies! Just Kidding! That is ok because I have been called worse. I really look forward to this project. Should be some great stuff. Maybe we will be allowed to make some suggestions for upcoming shows!

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Posted by WxGuy  
on January 5, 2006, 11:34 pm
Any chance you'll convert the map discussions to a video podcast any time soon? Those of us with new iPods or PSPs would really enjoy it.

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Posted by New Mike  
on January 6, 2006, 6:29 am
Just don't leave us folks who haven't jumped on the Ipod train out! We would like to be able to view those videos also!

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