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Apparently, there’s some election happening today here in the UK. They kept that quiet.

We hope you’ll be voting… for FrequencyCast.

FrequencyCast has been nominated for a European podcast award, so please cast your vote today for your favourite podcast (us, we hope). To vote, go to www.european-podcast-award.eu/uk/

Happy voting!

Got a phone powered by the Android Operating System? Congratulations – there’s an app for you to install!

The FrequencyCast podcast now has its very own Android app. With our app, you can listen to the latest show, see our latest news stories, read Pete and Carl’s Random Words blog, and see our new TV and Tech guide entries as we add them.

Here’s us, holding a Google phone running our app…

The FrequencyCast UK application is now available for Android phones. In the UK, this includes the following Google Android devices: HTC Dream, HTC Hero, HTC Magic, HTC Sapphire, Motorola DEXT, Motorola Milestone, Samsung Moment, T-Mobile G1 , T-Mobile G2 Touch, T-Mobile myTouch and T-Mobile Pulse. With more to follow!

If you have an Android phone, select the “Market” application from your phone’s menu, press search, and search for “FrequencyCast” in the Android Market store.

The app is free! If you try it, we’d love to hear what you think!

Well, dear listeners, we’ve been playing around with stats this evening and we thought you might be interested in a little information about who else is listening to our tech podcast.

Seems the average listener is between 35 and 44, a bit of a techie, running iTunes, using Internet Explorer on a Windows PC with nothing better to do at 7pm.

Sound familiar?

Fancy exploring some stats? See our FrequencyCast podcast stats page

Thanks to those of you taking the trouble to tell your friends about us.

If you like the show, but have not yet shown your support… please see www.frequencycast.co.uk/promote.html for some suggestions on how to tell the world about us. We’d really appreciate it!

We’ve been nominated for the 2009 European Podcast awards

Show your support and vote for us at www.european-podcast-award.eu/uk/start/vote-and-win/

Here at FrequencyCast, we’ve been playing with the new iTunes 9 released yesterday, and it seems that one of the key features for podcast listeners has vanished. The list of podcast categories no longer appears on the main iTunes Podcast page.

The new iTunes interface makes it easy to select from the top podcasts and editors picks, but not so easy to browse by category, as you could do with iTunes 8.

Here’s how it used to look on iTunes 8…

Podcast Categories from iTunes 8, mising in iTunes 9

… and here’s how you get to the Podcast Categories in iTunes 9 – Hover over the end of the word Podcast, and a tiny white arrow appears. Click the arrow and a pop-up menu appears…

Podcast Categories now hidden in iTunes 9

Which do you feel is easier and more intuative?

By the way, if you’ve not signed up to our UK TV and Tech podcast, and now can’t find us – here’s the direct link: FrequencyCast on iTunes

We’ve been releasing FrequencyCast, the UK TV and Tech podcast, since 2006, and we’ve been hoping to make it into the list of Top Ten shows since we started.

For the top ten, we rely on iTunes, which is the leading podcast distribution method. We’re listed in the ‘Tech News’ category, and we see our position in the 100 hop up and down. Today, we find we’re the closest we’ve been to the Top Ten – Yes, we’re number 11 in the Tech News podcast category – or at least we were today.

So tantalisingly close!

Help us out by spreading the word about FrequencyCast to your friends, add us to your Facebook profile, or mentioning us online… and maybe be can crawl into the Top 10.

If your followers of Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and the spherical-headed Karl Pilkington… you’ll be pleased to hear that their fifth series of massive podcasts is now available. £2.95 gets you the whole collection, although a mess-up with iTunes menas that if you go with iTunes, not Audible, to get your Gervais fix… you’ll pay a quid more.

Here are the links:

Ricky Gervais on iTunes – £3.95

Ricky Gervais Show on Audible.co.uk – £2.95

Enjoy!

It’s the first of March, and Show 24 of FrequencyCast has just been released. Yes – 24 shows… we’ve reached our second birthday. Thanks for being with us for the ride!

Here’s what we cover in today’s show:

• News Updates: An end to the High Def DVD format wars, BBC on the iPhone, the US strike’s over, we discover more about podcast listening, and we say hello to the 21st Century KITT.
• Focus – Digital Radio: After DAB has had a really rough couple of months, Carl and Pete pick up the pieces, look at some DAB technology, ask whether the future is Net radio, and read through listener’s texts and mails on digital radio.
• Neuros OSD: A new piece of kit – a gadget that converts your video, streams your content and acts as a PVR.
• Your Questions: Listeners questions on wireless V+ box connections, Freeview Series Link, video on a whiteboard, TV in other rooms, HDMI cables and Freeview in hilly areas.

You can download Show 24 direct to your MP3 player, listen online, or view the show notes at http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/cast24.html

Enjoy the show? Add a quick iTunes review: Review us.

 FrequencyCast Show 24 [31:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Some interesting reading for UK podcasters. RAJAR, the firm that look after audience research for UK commercial and BBC radio stations, has released the results of their first survey into podcast listening.The survey took place in September and October 2007, and here are the highlights of their findings: