The world of podcasts Listening: The history of podcasting a) Listen to the interview. b) Listen again and complete the summary with verbs in present or past simple. A podcast is 1 , for example, a radio programme that is kept in a digital form and you 2 download it from the internet, but it 3 always have to be a radio programme. It can also be something else. It can also be done by all kinds of people who want to be creative and share information. The word podcast is some kind of mix. You 4 the words “iPod” and “broadcast”. The parts “pod” and “cast” make the word “podcast”. Podcasting 5 first known as “audioblogging” and it 6 back to the 1980s. With the rise of broadband internet1 and portable digital audio devices2, for example the iPod, podcasting 7 successful around 2004. All in all, podcasting 8 a way to share information, but not as a text. It’s all about audio content. Listeners can play these audio files wherever and whenever they want to. Today there 9 more than 125,000 English-language podcasts on the internet. According to a study from 2018, 42 million US Americans above the age of twelve 10 to podcasts at least once a week. 1 broadband internet – Breitband-Internet 2 portable device – tragbares Gerät Vocabulary: Podcasting equipment Write the missing vocabulary below the picture. A B C D microphone 1 3.6 5f2vg6 2 33 Unit thirty-three Podcasts 6 Nur zu Prüfzw cken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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