I just finished producing episode #5 of a podcast called On the Pegs: Trials World Radio for a client, the Trials Training Center (TTC) in Tennessee. I’m also the co-host of the show. It’s all about the world of motorcycle trials (wikipedia entry), a sport I’ve been competing in since 1975 via my local trials club, the Upper Midwest Trials Association (UMTA). We’ve had a weblog on the site, natch, for several years.
Each show consists of a brief monologue by me, a news segment in which I have a phone conversation with TTC owner Dan Brown, a phone interview with the president of a local trials club, and then one or more interviews of professional riders and key industry figures. Shows have all been 45-60 minutes thus far.
We try to do the phone interviews via Skype because the sound quality is much better than a regular phone line. Dan does many of his interviews face-to-face, capturing the audio with a digital audio recorder. I use Pamela for Skype to record my calls, Camtasia Studio to edit the audio, Propaganda to do the mixing, and Hipcast to publish the podcast. I use Feedburner for the show’s RSS feed and the show’s listed in the podcast section of the iTunes store (search using the term ‘motorcycle’).
We have a theme song for the show (Music, Motorcycles and Money by Gary Dean Jennings, courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network) which I partially play at the opening, overlayed with some engine sounds, and again at the closing. I also use a snippet of music from the song to mark each of the transitions.
It takes me approximately 10-12 hours per episode, including putting up extensive show notes with links and photos. I also post info about each episode on various weblogs and discussion forums.
The show was launched with three advertisers/sponsors. They’re mentioned at the beginning and end of each show, featured on the show’s home page and in each of the show notes (posted to the TTC weblog).
