All ZetCast Content RSSOriginally posted on shetlandtoday.co.uk - 27th October 2006
ZETCAST, Shetland’s online broadcasting network, is set to launch today.
The website (www.zetcast.com) allows users to download and listen to podcasts, which are like pre-recorded radio shows.
ZetCast is a not-for-profit collective administered by Shetlanders John Smith, Bryan Peterson, Jimmy Carlyle and Marvin Smith, who aim to provide a valuable resource to the Shetland community while promoting Shetland culture, music and arts to the world.
Mr Peterson said on Monday: “Most of the current shows are music orientated but we have a wide range of content in the pipeline. The shows, which are all produced by locals, are recorded and uploaded and folk can access them via the www.zetcast.com website.
“The beauty of podcast technology is that anyone with a microphone and a computer can record a show and anyone with an internet connection and set of speakers can listen to them. We call it ‘citizen-driven media: made by the community for the community’.”
Mr Peterson said listeners did not need to be tied to their computer to hear the shows once they are downloaded from the site.
“Any device that plays MP3s can be used, so you can transfer episodes to your portable music player and listen whenever you want.”
ZetCast is running a competition on its site in which folk can win an iPod portable music player, donated by the Shetland Mac Shop.