The Age of Persuasion

Okay, we've got to stop meeting like this.

Time, she passes, yet the legals surrounding podcasting are yet to be settled. Meanwhile, our finely honed spider-sense (and a steady stream of daily emails) tells us many of you are wondering when an AOP podcast will happen.

Alas, for the moment, we are bound not to release Age of Persuasion episodes for podcast. (No, we don't like it either.)

Hey, the cupboard isn't entirely bare: we are happy to be able to offer online streaming here on our site, with the latest show added early in the week following its broadcast. Meanwhile, there are five chances each Saturday to listen to the Age of Persuasion live feed online. Click on the "Listen to CBC Radio" link on the right side of our page and find the CBC station in the appropriate time zone. As we're fond of noting: you've gotta love a country where 11:30 a.m. happens five times a day.

As we've mentioned in the past, podcasting is new enough that the law, and lawyers, haven't caught up with it yet. Broadcast has laws and agreements that govern the use of copyright materials, podcasting doesn't- yet. And our episodes tend to be loaded with copyright elements.

Please don't picture us sequestered in some dingy hotel meeting room with sleeves rolled up, negotiating over plates-full of little egg salad sandwiches with the crusts cut off, and cold half-filled cups of coffee.

We aren't involved in any negotiations; like you, we're simply waiting by the phone. When we hear something, you'll be the first to know.

And when agreements are reached that allow us to podcast, we'll be all over it.

Promise.

Mike Tennant

Producer, AOP