On the Hunt for a New Podcast? WTBU Students Talk Sports, News, Romance Novels—and More | BU Today
, 2022-12-02 14:03:00,
The station produces over a dozen shows, available on Spotify
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The number of podcasts has steadily risen over the past decade, as more Americans tune in to the spoken word. In the second quarter of 2022, 29 percent of 13-to-34 year olds listened to a podcast daily.
WTBU, BU’s award-winning student-run radio station, produces over a dozen affiliated student podcasts, with new ones added each semester. The radio station is run by an executive board of approximately 20 students and has been overseen by WTBU faculty advisor Anne Donohue (COM’88), a College of Communication associate professor of journalism, since 1996 (Donohue is retiring this month). The general podcasts are overseen by audio productions director Shandra Back (COM’25), and the sports and news podcasts are produced by their own separate WTBU departments.
“If you’re in the car, if you’re eating, if you’re running, whatever, it’s so simple to pop on a podcast, as opposed to sitting down to read an article or turning on your TV,” says Back, about why she believes podcasts have risen in popularity. “This is an activity that can be done anywhere, anytime, as long as you have access to headphones and a way to listen.”
The WTBU podcast studio on COM’s third floor was renovated in 2017 following a three-alarm fire in March 2016…
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